| 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...
| Feb 27, 2012 | Rights / DemocracyAmericans rely on having a fair and functioning judicial system that’s there for us when we need it. The courtroom is one place where we can go, no matter who we are, and know we’ll have a fair hearing — no matter whom we’re up against. But for our...
| | Rights / DemocracyThe Republican primaries have been a tough sled for God, the Father of the party. (Well, Republicans claim He is.) First, Michele Bachmann came to Him and asked whether she should run for president. “You go, girl,” He said, or words to that effect. I take...
