Month: May 2007

Responding to the theory that you can’t really represent poor people and tackle poverty if you live in a big house and splurge on haircuts: “Would it have been better if I had done well and didn’t care?”...

I am asking if you as parents have been asked by your kids to do something as a school project called the family bio.  They do it in their junior year.  It is essentially a detailed biography of the life of a...

Ari Berman reminds us: Furthermore, few Democratic consultants so consistently and publicly advocate an ideology that perfectly complements their corporate clients. Every election cycle [Hillary Clinton’s chief lobbyist...

Vanity Fair has excerpts from Ronald Reagan’s diary. The following excerpts are from 1981 and 1982. Mon. June 1, 1981 • I approved naval maneuvers in Mediterranean waters that Qaddafi of Libya has declared are his...

We were waiting for a High School club meeting to end. We talked about the weather, and not enough sleep, and our kids’ plans for college. When she mentioned another child considering the military so that he could pay for...