September had arrived, school was opening, and in Washington, D.C., the superintendent was fired up. There’ll be “a lot of…
The outcome of the presidential election has sown panic and dismay among many evangelicals. In the 1980s evangelicals felt they…
Election night 1992—it was a night of jubilation for the victors and despair for the losers, and relief for all…
This year we’re getting to know the presidential candidates in new and unusual ways. In the primaries, Jerry Brown and…
Picture a classroom with groups of people sitting at tables working on a math problem. It’s a simple task but…
The Murphy Brown episode has come back to haunt us again. At the Emmy awards, the creator of the sitcom…
I wager nearly half the country tuned into the season’s opening of Murphy Brown. And we all heard Candice Bergen…
The editor of a small-town newspaper recently said, “Family values are important, … but people want to hear about the…
A few years ago, the Smithsonian museum put up a new display with Archie Bunker’s overstuffed armchair, from the famous…
Homelessness. A few years ago, the word didn’t exist. Even now, it’s not in the dictionary. But everyone knows what…
