The beloved children's story "The little engine that could" is a tale of perseverance and spunk, used to teach children that if they keep trying, they will eventually succeed. As adults, we know...

Most of us agree that things aren't right in our world and that change is desperately needed. What's lacking is the political party willing and able to stand up to the power elite. In both Iowa and Washington,...

This year we witnessed convoluted relationships between American politics and both the electronic and print press. Newspapers were dissed and rewarded, television news continued its effort to appear to...

Republican elected officials could use coaching on how to talk about the immigration issue — and, just as importantly, how not to talk about it. There's a huge need. When talking about immigration,...

The bumper sticker — you’ve all seen it: “The people who brought you the weekend — the Labor Movement” — is not just a poignant reminder about the roots of the lifestyle we take for granted....

My friend Tim lost his job. My friend Simon is in danger of losing his job. They're both gay. They're both Iraq veterans. Tim was discharged under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy....

The New York Times recently reported that "American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 trillion in the third quarter, according to a Commerce Department report." This is the...

America's first problem in Afghanistan is that the Afghan people in the key battleground don't understand why we're there: When pollsters read a simple summary of the 9/11 attack and its aftermath to a...

Walking across the Pentacrest this past Monday, I came upon two female students handing out fliers and encouraging people to attend a blood drive for World AIDS Day. My stomach dropped, but I said nothing....

The co-chairmen of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (the "deficit commission") have sparked a heated debate about how best to address the federal deficit. While...

"The whites wouldn't like it …" First, it occurs to me that if this were my guiding principle, I wouldn't write or say half the things I do. Those are the words that were offered up, in 1949,...

The Nov. 2 election was a historic event that will have ramifications for politics and policy. But the date is also historic because it is the birthday (Nov. 2, 1865) of President Warren G. Harding and...