The new GOP agenda seems to be less, not more, freedom. Consider the efforts to bar gay marriage, ban stem-cell research or impose school prayer.
No one — no matter how virtuous or kind — can be trusted with absolute, unreviewable power over other human beings.
Since the 1980s, Republican administrations have been manipulating media law to protect an important part of their attack machine.
Those who bite their tongues despite internal doubt do no service to the troops, or to their country.
Newly freed slaves were among the first Richmonders to greet a worn-out president in the beaten, Confederate capital.
I wouldn’t mind bowing my head respectfully while a Wiccan priestess calls the four directions and invokes the blessings of the ancient Celtic gods on the Board’s deliberations — if […]
I like pretty much everything about “West Wing”: the witty banter among attractive young White House staffers, the complexity of the political and diplomatic problems it dramatizes, the way it […]
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