Excerpts from Ed Rollins' column at CNN.com ( Read more... )

Published in the Providence Journal,

Reclaiming the American Dream

MOST AMERICANS have simple dreams. A job that can support a family. Health care we can count on and afford. A retirement that is dignified and secure. Education and opportunity for our kids.

But today, the price of the American dream is going up.

All across the country, Americans are ( Read more... )

February 24, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist The Audacity of Hopelessness

By FRANK RICH
WHEN people one day look back at the remarkable implosion of the Hillary Clinton campaign, they may notice that it both began and ended in the long dark shadow of Iraq.

It’s not just that her candidacy’s central premise - the priceless value of “experience ( Read more... )

An op-ed by Professor Kenneth Mack: Even at Harvard, Obama had a knack for bonding with diverse people

February 22, 2008


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Under George W. Bush, the United States has not lived up to its historic role as a leader in the Western Hemisphere. As president, I will restore that leadership by working to advance the common prosperity and security of all of the people of the Americas. That work must begin with a renewed strategic partnership with Mexico ( Read more... )

In recent weeks, I've been asked if the "surge" is working, and if we should continue to fight the war in Iraq. The answer is decisively no.Those who support the surge are making the same mistakes that war supporters have made all along: They fail to understand how the Iraq war sets back our security, and they fail to understand that there is no ( Read more... )

OUR POLITICS have not moved on in the way that the American people have. And we can see it across the board.One of the things I've discovered as I've traveled across the country is that the American people have a complex set of attitudes about a whole range of issues. So, when they think about military intervention, it's not constantly through the ( Read more... )

Like Hurricane Katrina did with poverty, the case of Genarlow Wilson - much like that of the Jena 6 - exposed the glaring inequities in our justice system. They reminded us of the fact that we still have a system that locks away too many young, first-time, non-violent offenders for the better part of their lives. It reminds us that we have certain ( Read more... )

The bedrock of America’s greatest advances - the foundation of what we know today are defining values - was formed not by cheering on things as they were, but by taking them on and demanding change ( Read more... )

In recent years, tens of thousands of women and girls have been raped, tortured, and assaulted in the DRC by disgruntled soldiers and bands of marauders. One expert says this is so common in some places that it is "almost normal ( Read more... )