This weekend in Selma, Alabama, marchers will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in that city. The violence unleashed by Southern sheriffs and racial vigilantes on that day galvanized President...
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04 March 2005
Once in a while, mass media outlets give a fair hearing to radical
ideas that make sense. But those ideas have little chance to take hold --
mainly because followup is scant. Instead of bouncing around the national
media echo chamber, the...
03 March 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- Gross! How to take a horrible bill and make it genuinely loathsome. Look at this -- look at what they are doing with this bankruptcy bill.
The bankruptcy bill was a gift to big bankers and credit...
The bankruptcy bill was a gift to big bankers and credit...
01 March 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm sorry, but every now and again a girl just finds it necessary to lay her head down on the table and howl with laughter. I wrote a column warning that USA Next, a Republican Astroturf (meaning "fake grass-roots") group...
25 February 2005
An Associated Press dispatch from a Thai fishing village summed up the
media spin a few days ago: “Former President Bill Clinton’s voice trembled
with emotion as he and George H.W. Bush put aside their once-bitter
political rivalry...”...
24 February 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- I have been observing the flappette over the sexist remarks of Harvard's president, Larry Summers, with some amusement. Initially, it was hard to sort out whether we had a case of an educator trying to provoke an...
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