To defend ourselves in an endless war against a faceless enemy, we have abandoned principles long held dear and engaged in practices our parents and grandparents wouldn’t recognize.
Contemplating President Obama’s announcement, “We Shall Overcome” began to play in my mind, and I realized how appropriate it is today. "Yes, we can!” and “We Shall Overcome” both convey the will to struggle in the face of formidable opposition.
Under the "Path to Prosperity" budget proposed by Paul Ryan, chair of the House Budget Committee, who is it that prospers?
The key players who brought about the sharp shift in policy were women. For a veteran of the feminist battles of the 1960s and ’70s, that disclosure was stunning.
“We do big things,” President Obama said. Here’s hoping we do more of them in 2011.
Last week's vote was symbolic, but will the Affordable Care Act be starved of the nutrition it needs?
Can the "civil dialogue" that was promised this week include the facts about gun safety?
After the furor of the last two weeks, looking to the example of Sherrod and Grace Hall Miller, her indomitable mother, who stared down the Klan and learned not to hate.