Nothing short of a constitutional amendment will ever make any other legislation or executive order allowing faith-based employment discrimination in federally funded programs legal.
Leonce Gaiter | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home
We have yet to arrive at the point where we can teach our history in full -- warts and all. Studying "the bonds we share with our fellow citizens" demands we study where and why those bonds have broken down.
Martin Carnoy | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
Anyone who is the least bit candid on this issue knows that race permeates many aspects of American society. Why wouldn't the race issue pervade the election of a black presidential nominee?
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
All this talk about bitter, rural voters getting their guns takes me back to another moment in America when the farmers were raising less corn and mor...
James Heffernan | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics
Anyone who thinks that words have played no part in the building of this nation -- that they were not just as vital as all the blood shed by its soldiers -- simply does not know its history.
Walter Russell Mead | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics
It may sound paradoxical, but WASP studies remains the essential study today for those who want to advance the concepts of liberty and equality in American politics.
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Chris Rodda | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics