A passion that burns bridges? Homeless advocates have an understandable passion and sense of urgency, particularly after this year’s count of homeless Durhamites showed a 26-percent increase in their population
Record-setting do-gooders If free passes to Disney World were your only motive for donating a couple of bags of food this weekend, you were in it for the wrong reasons — but we need you, anyway
Process is never pretty So far in the health-care debate, Republicans have attacked the legitimacy of private negotiations, parochial dealmaking, the budget reconciliation process, self-executing rules, the Congressional...
Brawling with Israel This editorial appeared in The Washington Post: President Obama’s Middle East diplomacy failed in his first year in part because he chose to engage in an unnecessary and unwinnable public c...
March Madness: What's the impact on academics? With the recent hysteria about kids missing school because of snow, it seems appropriate to look at the effect March Madness has on academics at the 65 colleges invited to the basketball tournamen...
Government must regulate cost of pharmaceuticals It seems that the overhaul of health insurance at the national level has our attention and our politicians are attracted to this issue, some as moths to a flame
Liberals taste 'balanced' medicine Lack of balance is the charge being levied against the Texas State Board of Education after it inserted changes to new standards in social studies programs in public schools
