Commentary: Texas is slow to get rolling on the road to compromise
| |Monday, Mar. 25, 2013
Commentary: More guns, more places won't solve anything
| |Monday, Mar. 25, 2013
I want to claim shock that in a state that has among the highest rates of domestic violence in a nation that leads the industrialized world in the rate of gun violence, there are those we sent to Columbia who believe the problem is that we have too few guns in too few places.
Commentary: A Sudan 'Lost Boy' finds a life-saving mission
| |Sunday, Mar. 24, 2013
Although he has found a home in Fort Worth -- a place he has come to love -- in many ways 33-year-old Gatjan Deng is still on a journey that he began when he was only 9.
Commentary: Bloomberg's big soda ban didn't go far enough for one Duke professor
| |Sunday, Mar. 24, 2013
Neither Sarah Palin nor Gary Bennett was upset when a judge struck down New York’s “big soda ban” the day before it was supposed to go into effect last week.
Commentary: Surprising results from a gun survey
| |Saturday, Mar. 23, 2013
You’d think, reading news reports about people rushing out to buy assault rifles and stock up on ammo, that gun ownership is on the rise. But according to at least one survey, just the opposite is true.
Commentary: Venezuela election will be a David vs. Goliath contest
| |Saturday, Mar. 23, 2013
When Venezuela’s opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski says the April 14 presidential election will be a “David versus Goliath” fight, in which the government’s candidate will have a formidable advantage, he’s not kidding.
Commentary: Women's progress understated by oft-used wages number
| |Friday, Mar. 22, 2013
Next month, brace yourself for another round of grumbling about gender discrimination in the workplace. April 9 is Equal Pay Day, supposedly the magic point at which women finally make what men made in the previous year.
Commentary: Concentration of wealth with the 1% is too profound to ignore
| |Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013
In 2011, a Kansas City union rep was explaining why Occupy Wall Street wasn’t galvanizing more of his members.
Commentary: Media throw Bradley Manning to the wolves
| |Thursday, Mar. 21, 2013
In media mythology, the years from the mid-1960s to the mid-’70s were the classical age, a heroic time of moral clarity.
Mainstream journalism marinated in adversarialism. Little Southern newspapers infuriated their own readers by staring down segregation. Foreign correspondents forced upon an unwilling public the realities of a brutal war. Network news ignored official disdain and showed the bottomless suffering the war inflicted on the innocents it was supposed to save. With the Pentagon Papers, newspapers defied secrecy rules to expose government lies. With Watergate, reporters forced out a corrupt president.
Commentary: Too many deaths in an unnecessary war
| |Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2013
Someone left a SpongeBob SquarePants snow globe on Elizabeth Jacobson’s grave. A fuzzy yellow Easter Bunny. A sand dollar adorned with the yellow SpongeBob character.
