| Jan 10, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s easy to find someone to wish you a Happy New Year. Strangers do it. Even people who don’t like you do it. It’s far more rare is to find someone who will tell you how to achieve it. I am that rare someone. I intend, before this column ends, to...
| Jan 3, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe only time four-year-old Logan got to play hide-and-seek with his dad this year was through a Plexiglass window at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, nine hours from his hometown. A person might be detained in a for-profit center like Stewart for any...
| | Rights / DemocracyWe are the greatest country on earth. If you don’t believe it, just ask us. American “exceptionalism”–the declaration of which produces that warm feeling of knowing there’s nobody as good as you are–is a growth industry these days,...
| | Cartoon|Rights / Democracy
| Dec 27, 2010 | Rights / DemocracySince NPR terminated its contract with political analyst Juan Williams, it has been open hunting season on the broadcasting network in Washington, with a handful of lawmakers and political pundits launching an all-out assault to take down public media. This...
| | Rights / DemocracyTime Magazine has its Man of the Year Award; I have mine. There was a bumper crop of candidates this year, a year marked by one bizarre turn of events after another. Who would have imagined, for example, that President Barack Obama, having gotten a commitment from oil...
