| Apr 13, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyFor years, researchers have parsed the nation’s top op-ed sections and deemed them to be too male and too white. With this problem so openly acknowledged, you’d think that there’d be some improvement. Well, you’d be wrong. The media reform...
| Apr 9, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. I’ll give them some taxation without representation. With apologies to Emma Lazarus, that’s the situation faced by many of the more than 10 million undocumented immigrants who live in...
| Apr 2, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyI opened my paper the other morning, brimming with the hope and optimism that spring (and spring training) always excites in me, and these are the stories I saw: – A killer in Toulouse, France had attacked a Jewish school, murdering a rabbi and three young...
| Mar 26, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyIt seems as though the 2012 Republican presidential primaries began the day before forever. But oh the lessons we’ve learned. We’ve been treated to startlingly original theories about the economy, international affairs, history, biology, theology, and...
| Mar 19, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyTake it from Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple. “Poetry can be sharper than a sword in cutting through lies.” Every day, our politicians and pundits lie to us. They argue that our differences as Americans are greater than what we have in common....
| | Rights / DemocracyWhen they decided to honor Dwight Eisenhower with a memorial in Washington, they did it up right. They hired perhaps our most famous architect, Frank Gehry, to design it. They picked out a place in the middle of the National Mall to put it. They bankrolled it at a...
