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A few weeks ago, I spent a half hour with my daughter's second-grade teacher, going over my daughter's progress in reading, writing and arithmetic. I had scheduled the meeting with my wife during an open house held for parents after work hours several weeks...
Whither Wingnuttery?
John McCain played with fire. Sarah Palin stoked the flames of the far right with abandon. We even saw McCain, with tight-lipped resignation, forced to tell a wild-haired supporter Obama was not a Muslim. The Republican duo tapped into the ugliest part of the...Letters: What Do You Think?
Only One RaceOne day when I was six years old, being raised in Northeast Washington, D.C., I asked my mother if I could go to the White House for lunch and play with Caroline Kennedy. Because I am African-American, the story was told and retold by my mother with a...The World This Week: Friedman Unit
Bill McKibben may turn out to be the George Orwell of this age. Like Orwell, he writes in crystal-clear prose about the most important issues of our time—climate change, overpopulation, globalization—and much of what he has forecast since his book The End...E-Edition
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