For several years now, I've been trying to find a better balance between work and family, and failing miserably. I've only just understood why. It's the word ''balance'' that threw me. I've always assumed that a better balance meant more of what you really want [...]
By Diane McWhorter | Originally Published at The New York Times. May 8, 1994 | Photographic Credit; Heflin, J. Thomas. Senator. Image circa approximately 1905 -1945 by Harris & Ewing[/caption]You have heard the arguments against the rite of condescension that you are observing today. So I won't [...]
Becoming a media buzzword is the public relations dream of every Washington policy cabal. It is the signal that the media is ready to collaborate. The great PR success story of the 1980s was the "supply-siders." The term, which suggests a conservative concern with investment [...]
America is a nation bound together by moral panics; in the absence of an actual moral center or a compass of justice, we find power in collective outrage in the absence of self-reflection. And race or antiblackness is often what anchors these fits of moralism. [...]
