BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Hate speech consumes much of the time on our airwaves and electronic media. Well, maybe it's not all hate speech, just...

BY FROMA HARROP The alternative to a government rescue of General Motors is the collapse of the industrial Midwest. Nonetheless, there’s been a surprisingly large amount of dumping on the Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan. The government-sponsored deal seems to have stirred up resentments for every ideology. From the left, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich asks […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I have hated graduations for most of my life. High school was my best, and it wasn’t great: I lost out as valedictorian by one-tenth of a point, and the guys who finished third and fourth behind me both got into Harvard and I didn’t. I was heading off to my last […]

BY JOE CONASON If right-wing broadcasters don’t want to be blamed when someone murders a person they have demonized repeatedly – as in the case of George Tiller, the doctor shot dead in his Wichita, KS, church by an anti-abortion zealot – then they ought to moderate their rhetoric. No doubt they will choose their […]

BY FROSTY TROY Hamilton County, TN, is home to one of the nation's most widely touted school reform success stories. Beginning in 2001, eight low-performing elementary...