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- An 'Obama Effect' on Learning - February 6, 2009
- In a study of 472 Americans -- 84 black and 388 white, ranging in age from 18 to 63 -- who took a test of 20 questions before the presidential election, blacks got...
- A Forked Tongue Over Gaza - January 30, 2009
- After Israel announced a cease-fire, Ismail Haniya, the "prime minister of Gaza," came out of hiding and declared victory. Such chutzpah, observes der...
- The Pomp Passes, Circumstance Lingers - January 23, 2009
- He reminded us that in a country where only 50 years ago his father wouldn't have been served in many whites-only restaurants he now dines on duck and...
- We're All Ears - January 16, 2009
- "Ask not what your country can do for you," John F. Kennedy famously said in his inaugural address in 1961, "ask what you can do for your country." What...
- The Sleeping Children of Israel - January 9, 2009
- The Obama girls, like other girls in the West, are lucky. They could read the latest from Pakistan, where girls their age are forbidden to attend school....
- Out With the Old - January 2, 2009
- We're counting on the new president to save jobs, salvage homes, extend health care, win wars in two places, receive immigrants who seek a better life and...
- Politics and Poetry in Season - December 26, 2008
- The first Christmas summoned three kings, or wise men, to the manger in Bethlehem with gifts of royalty for the babe on whose tiny shoulders rested the hope...
- An Empty Stocking for Frau Merkel - December 19, 2008
- Other leaders in the European Union want her to package a bigger stimulus, but Frau Merkel is cautious. She offers only modest sums to trigger investment....
- Racism in the Public Schools - December 12, 2008
- Unfortunately, most Americans don't have that kind of opportunity or that kind of money, particularly in Washington, where the public schools are, to put it...
- Lessons from Lincoln - December 5, 2008
- Hubris or not, Obama seeks a hero worthy of imitation, but the obvious similarities tell us little about what to expect. Both are lanky lawyers from...
- Thanksgiving in Transition - November 28, 2008
- Since then, the history books have alternated interpretations that emphasized the virtues and then the vices of our forefathers. In the span of our own...
- From Victim to Victor in Black America - November 14, 2008
- "We've had an African American first family for many years in different forms," Karl Rove observed on election night. "When 'The Cosby Show' was on (the...
- The Triumph of Hope - November 7, 2008
- But Barack Obama was not a candidate to avenge black grievance; it was not color that produced his landslide in the oft-maligned Electoral College. The Rev....
- Bile, Rage and Sarah Palin - October 31, 2008
- The conversations can get candid and surprising, and nothing strikes sparks like the mere mention of the governor of Alaska. I expected the black women to...
- A Crowded Endorsement Game - October 24, 2008
- Eric Schmidt, the chief executive officer of Google, even got a mention in The Wall Street Journal for his "plans to endorse." Sometimes an endorser just...
- Irrational Excuberance of November - October 17, 2008
- A lot of the rhetoric of any campaign is designed to encourage foolishness, like expecting voters to believe everything they hear from the platform. Voters...
- There's Something About Sarah - October 11, 2008
- Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is something else. She's clearly relishing the assigned role of the candidate for vice president -- going out to rough up the...
- The Curtain on the Last Act - October 3, 2008
- Truman loved politics. Dewey didn't. "Lay it on," cried the men and women who crowded close to the railroad tracks on the Truman whistle-stop tour. The correspondent...
- The Pancake People - September 26, 2008
- Football coaches teach their athletes to adhere to the game plan, but they expect a good quarterback to know how to chuck it and call an audible at the line...
- A Face-Off for the Future - September 20, 2008
- "In the first stage, our aim was full participation, power and voice in the mainstream, but we were diverted from our dream," she would write. "And in our...
- The Sarah Palin Squeeze - September 12, 2008
- National Public Radio interviews women about what they think of the way Sarah Palin fuels the "Mommy Wars." Unlike the pollsters, NPR finds mostly women who...
- Convention(al) Reflections - August 29, 2008
- Most Americans forgave his adulterous dalliances when he returned, figuring that anyone who suffered so much with such grace had something coming to him. But that was...
- The Lady Dithered - August 22, 2008
- Thatcher and Merkel, for two recent examples, came up "naturally" through the political process. Hillary, on the other hand, is an interloper, having used marriage...
- Lessons from Literature - August 15, 2008
- We all weep for his family and can even feel the pain of those who believed in him. The allegorical figure of Hypocrisy moves unseen among all of us. "Neither...
- Hardball and Hard Calls - August 8, 2008
- That happens when the stakes are high and human emotions, driven by ambition and power, litter the landscape like trash on the streets after the circus leaves town. In...
- Tinseltown Transformations - August 1, 2008
- "Senator Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers...
- Distractions for Obama in Berlin - July 25, 2008
- Europeans, like many Americans, are besotted by sentiment, basing their judgment on what they feel, not what they know. He sounds like he's running for president of...
- Spectacle in Berlin - July 18, 2008
- When Paris fell to the Nazis in the summer of 1940, the Wehrmacht troops marched through the Brandenburg Gate swathed in swastikas. After Berlin was divided...
- Halftime Entertainment - July 11, 2008
- The Republican National Convention Committee, displaying more than a little envy, accuses the Democrats of relying on "stagecraft and theatrics" over substance. But...
- Sparklers for the Fourth - July 4, 2008
- The Fourth of July appeals to a different kind of America than Thanksgiving, that chilly November celebration that evolved from those first desperate days when our...
- The Living Legacy of Maggie Thatcher - RealClearPolitics - April 21, 2008
- Age as an Asset: McCain & the Boomers - Washington Times - March 31, 2008