EDITORIAL

The audacity of arrogance

Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic candidate for president. Hillary Clinton has not yet conceded, but there are no realistic strategies for her to make up the deficiency in her delegate vote count. Still, she insists on continuing to slog on to the bitter end. More »

Toward a universal standard

Exoneration of the police officers responsible for the shooting death of Sean Bell and the wounding of his two friends in Queens, N.Y., has created a political problem. Usually, an incident of alleged police abuse involves black victims and white police officers. In the Sean Bell case, because two of the police officers were black, the issue was exclusively abuse of police power without any racial overtones. More »