Mitt Romney is right about one thing: Too many American children do receive what he this week called a "Third World education." A disproportionate number of them are children of color. It is indeed "the civil rights issue of our era." It is also...

It's her voice that I keep hearing in my head. "Susan," she would say, in that quiet, commanding tone she had, before explaining something to me: how to deal with the Irish boys in politics in the '80s, what to do about a friend's son having ...

When my kids were young, about the worst thing they could say about something was that it was capital-b BORRRING. You know how they stretch out the word, as in why say more?

When I used to work in politics, and people would roll their eyes and ...

It's that time of year. What's the old song? "I can still remember..." And I do. It's what I talk about when I'm invited to be a graduation speaker and what I write about every year at this time.

It's about all those painful memories.

For many ...

Depending on which poll you believe, Obama is either up by 3, 7 or 9 points, or down by 1, 3 or 5.

Or none of the above.

Figuring out who's going to be on first in November (which is the only time that counts) is not something you can do just by...

"They made me feel so small." Bea does my nails. I found her because she works seven days a week until 8 at night.

She sits at the front table, which in the world of Vietnamese nail salons means the money is in her drawer, and she's the one who ...