Somehow we are all operating in a fog, a fuzzy Lethe of assumptions we are supposed to have agreed upon -- but we didn't. Our public discourse has edged so far to the right that we cannot even name what is in front of us.

Having endured the longest...

Parvez Sharma's new documentary, A Jihad for Love, is a remarkable exploration, six years in the making, of the lives and struggles of gays and lesbians in the Islamic world today. From a pair of Sufi lesbians in Turkey to a religious instructor in South Africa to young men in...

If you want to see a fantastic overview of the struggle of Asian-Americans in film in the US, a struggle to be included, a struggle for a voice, a struggle for some truth, be sure to check out Hollywood Chinese, a recently released documentary directed by Arthur Dong. Coming out...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate

Until tonight's debate, I didn't really think Hillary Clinton would go so far as to attempt to sink the whole Democratic Party campaign in her struggle for power. But now it is clear that she...

Ah, the Huffington Post is abuzz with political blogs, Democratic primary blogs, national politics blogs. I tend to be more local - education, culture. But I'm getting into the spirit of this thing so here goes:

I confess. I'm a boomer. I'm an old radical. What they call old...

Martin Luther King's birthday. Have things changed? Even a little? Not in the important, fundamental ways. And in schools, where African American young people are sorted and classified and shunted aside, we white teachers have to look at our own blind spots.

We white teachers. .. .. aahhh,...

OK, I'm tired of writing negative blogs. Is everything bad? Southern California is burning (check out Mike Davis' "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn" in The Ecology of Fear for an understanding of the political social basis of these disasters). The war slogs on. But I need a happy blog....

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Okay, okay, I confess. I must take credit for pushing Bush into his lame Vietnam analogy a few weeks ago. I had posted "How to Lose a War" and drew a ton of comments. Of course, Bush blustered with the half baked bar blunder of a typical...

There's a lot of beating around the bush in Washington, in the media, and in the think tanks these days. Everyone has something to day about the disastrous war in Iraq - how we should pull out, how terrible mistakes were made. But no one dares utter the L word....

For some of us, it's awkward to be at a professional baseball game before the first pitch. Especially on July 4. You can be certain that there will be the obligatory display of patriotism -- patriotism narrowly defined as military celebration. The Star Spangled Banner. Some soldiers marched out...

A flurry of internet discussions and talk show grist was unleashed after Norwegians Petter Kristensen and Tor Bjerkedal published their study, "Explaining the Relation between Birth Order and Intelligence," in Science magazine. The premise of this discussion is so ridiculous that it boggles the mind to see how credulous the...

You see it everywhere. The hand-wringing has become cliché: the American Competitiveness Initiative declares that we must do better in math and reading in order for us to compete in the global economy. And we must turn our schools into centers of test prep, drilling, and narrow fact-gathering on...

"I've never heard high school kids say 'I love you' so much." That was the comment of the older brother of a CAS student upon witnessing the CAS graduation last Friday. CAS -- the Communication Arts and Sciences small school at Berkeley High -- holds its own awards ceremony a...

We suffered, in my small school community (Communication Arts and Sciences at Berkeley High), the tragic and premature death of a wonderful young man, Canon Jones, recently. While I was on my back deck celebrating my daughter's 26th birthday with family and friends, Canon was at a Bar-B-Que at Tuskegee....

A recent Talk of the Nation was strange indeed. Like most major media discussions, it was a conversation between the right and the far right. But the conversation was disturbing because of the shared assumptions of everyone on the air.

The "issue," based on a current article by...