TRUE LOVE?
President Clinton says "the era of big government is over," but plenty of other voices are determined to expand it through any means necessary, including the heavy hand of divorce...
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LEGAL ACTION
If you want to know why black Americans tend to show a lot less faith in the criminal justice system than white Americans, especially now that O.J. Simpson is back...
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CIVILITY?
Newcomers to the nation's capital have often been astonished by the atmosphere of social harmony that exists offstage or after working hours between political adversaries. Few here were surprised, for...
A DREAM DISTORTED
This year's honor for the biggest whopper told in Dr. Martin Luther King's name goes to the governors of California and Louisiana for insisting that they are fulfilling King's dream...
. . . AND IT WILL PROBABLY SNOW DURING THE WINTER OF ’97
Snow and the way people react to it tells you a lot about the character and attitude of a city and the expectations citizens have of their government. This message...
UTOPIA IS NOT JUST AROUND THE CORNER
"Cheer up, America! It's not as bad as you think," the magazine cover headline shouts cheerily. No, it's not. It's worse. I don't want to sound too much like a...
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS DESTROYING HISTORY
Are Washington's cultural institutions gripped by a climate of fear? That's the charge. Here's the evidence. A controversial exhibit on plantation life in the old South was shut down and...
MISDIRECTING THE `HATEMONGERING’ AWARD
Some columnists give out their own dubious achievement awards this time of year. I receive them. Well, one, anyway. I have just been informed that the Media Research Center, a...
REEL LIFE
My friend Jack was highly annoyed. His wife did not want to go with him to see the film "Waiting to Exhale." She wanted to go with some female friends....
IT’S TIME TO SPREAD SOME HOLIDAY GOODWILL
If this column does not appear to meet my usual standards for biting wisecracks, cutting sarcasm and generally cold, crass and cynical grinchiness, there is a reason. I am devoting...