Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
A French Roadblock to Free Trade
France is the leading supporter of the European Union's costly protectionist agricultural policy, and the major opponent of any serious change.
Tough Start to the School Year
Setting lofty education goals while failing to back them up with the needed cash is worse than doing nothing at all.
Policy Lobotomy Needed
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
I don't know what Mr. Bush has been doing on his vacation, but I know what the country has been doing: starting to worry
Unfree in America
IT IS EASY to see why the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world when a convicted felon in California gets 50 years to life for shoplifting $153.54 in children's videotapes from Kmart. But a new report by the Justice Department on incarceration rates shows just how counterproductive get-tough state and federal sentencing laws have become. Reform is needed to prevent future generations from being rounded up and sent off to prison for nonviolent crimes that would be better addressed with restitution and other sanctions short of jail time.
Prop. 54 Could Undermine Racial Gains
By Gregory Rodriguez
It would seem a contradiction. Californians elect the first Mexican American governor in modern times and also approve an ostensibly conservative Proposition 54, which would prohibit the state from recognizing racial and ethnic categories. But the Mexicanization of California makes both political events possible.
Cartoons
Tom Toles on the really important discussion
David Horsey shows a reasonable reaction to the new school year
Joel Pett gives us "I Have A Dream Ver. 2.0"