| Feb 7, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyThe N-word is perhaps the most powerful word in the English language. It carries 400 years of brutal American history that can strike with the force of a lash. Nice people don’t say it. F-bombs are soggy firecrackers compared to the explosive power...
| Jan 3, 2011 | 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,...
| Dec 13, 2010 | Economy / BusinessCollege now Is fraught with woe; Everybody, Wants to go. Everyone is going to college these days, whether they need it or not. And why shouldn’t they? With jobs so hard to come by, you might as well beef up your resume as stand around on the corner. After all,...
| Dec 6, 2010 | Rights / DemocracyWith all the talk about firing “underperforming” teachers, closing the achievement gap, and adopting “common core standards” for students, too many experts are missing a basic source of America’s education woes: the inherently unequal and...
| Nov 22, 2010 | Economy / BusinessWe have seen the future and it is grim. That glimpse of the road ahead arrived in the form of a preview of the Bowles-Simpson Commission’s report on the kinds of things government has to do (and not do) if we want to avoid economic doom. Things like giving up...
