| May 15, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s official: African Americans are the nation’s most important swing state. Last summer, I predicted that the African American vote would tip the scales in the 2012 election of Barack Obama. My organization, the National Urban League, foresaw a...
| | Rights / DemocracyNo job now, Provides the pay, To let me find, A place to stay. Many folks with big incomes are responding to the tensions of America’s growing economic inequality by moving into gated communities. This isn’t new, just growing more common. Ten percent of us...
| May 14, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyMy state of Texas seems to have an inordinate share of nincompoops in public office. But it’s only fair that office holders from other states be considered before deciding which one is the nincompoopiest of all. Give credit to Pennsylvania, for example, whose...
| May 11, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyThe Heritage Foundation’s recently unveiled and long-awaited report on the Senate immigration proposal certainly brought the ultra-conservative think tank lots of attention. But it’s not the kind that’s likely to prove influential. Republican...
| May 8, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIf you hear someone talking about journalism these days, they’re usually complaining about how the industry is collapsing. Or how terribly biased the media is, one way or the other. But every time the annual White House Correspondents Dinner rolls around, the...
| | Rights / DemocracyI recently learned that I teach at a persistently poor performing school. It happened after Ohio bureaucrats unveiled new, “more rigorous” criteria for determining success and failure in the state’s public schools. My district, previously deemed...
