EDITORIAL
Censoring the presidentNot too many generations ago, the pursuit of education was highly valued in black communities across America. People understood that a good education was necessary to get a good job. However, a good education was not easily achieved. Prior to the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, it was not a violation of federal law to segregate public schools by race. More » |
OPINION
No excuse for gun violenceJasmine Lynn, a Spelman College sophomore, was killed by a stray bullet as she walked on the campus of Clark Atlanta University just after midnight on Sept. 2. She was chatting with friends not far from the place where six shots were fired during a fight at Clark Atlanta. More » |
Health insurance, health care and health: The confusion of public debateWhen I worked as an economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the Carter administration, I was responsible for collecting and analyzing data and formulating health care policy. Thirty years have passed and the American public, the media and the political leadership continues to confuse three very different issues - health insurance, health care and health. This confusion leads to unnecessary acrimonious debate, because analysis and solutions to any one of these three related subjects do not translate into solutions for all three simultaneously. More » |
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A matter of respectIt was only a matter of time before the true colors of the health care opponents came out. It didn't surprise me that, sooner or later, a "birther," a "deather," or some oddball combination of sub-humanity like U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson could be expected to let loose with a foul attack on the president. Just like a skunk in a rose garden. More » |
