The soldiers in Iraq are fighting, suffering and dying . . . anonymously and pointlessly, while the rest of us are free to buckle ourselves into the family vehicle and head off to the malls and shop.

I think the Republican Party is… accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They’re like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

We pretend that no one’s a racist anymore, but it’s easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.