No pass for U.S. brass in Iraq
Long after the Iraq War is over, the crimes of Abu Ghraib will live in our memory -- and in the memories of peoples across the world.
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
Education's still separate, unequal
On Monday, George W. Bush traveled to Topeka, Kan., to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, the unanimous Supreme Court decision that outlawed legal segregation in America. Bush paid rhetorical tribute to Brown and to racial integration, but he did not note that the promise of Brown is threatened today -- and the president and his party are leading the attack.
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Brown's impact fading in schools
On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren, newly appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower to lead the Supreme Court, announced the decision in the case of Oliver Brown vs. the Topeka Board of Education. ''We conclude, unanimously,'' the chief justice read, ''that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.''
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Time to cut our losses in Iraq
The U.S. position in Iraq is disintegrating. The Bush administration, which failed from the start to plan for the occupation, now is flailing about like a drowning man. With young American men and women at risk there, it is time for Congress to call the administration to its senses and chart a course to get our soldiers out.
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
Kerry can't afford to go negative
We know what kind of a campaign George W. Bush plans to run. He just set a record, spending some $50 million dollars in one month, almost all of it on negative ads attacking John Kerry.
Wild about Harry
