THE MINIMUM wage is an enduring legal monument to a time when Americans were really concerned about poverty.
IT'S FAIR to say that the average media consumer's attention span is inversely proportional to the number of informational choices he or she has.
THE PRO-ISRAEL crowd was anxious last month when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced that he plans to remove 17 small settlements in the Gaza Strip, effectively ending the Israeli occupation of that area.
SPANISH voters sent a strong message to Madrid last week: They told their leaders they could do without "Mr. Bush's war." No doubt incensed by the horrific train bombing a few days before the elections, Spain's record voter turnout demonstrated what every poll and protest in the country has been saying for over a year: that the Spanish people were overwhelmingly against the U.S.
Few things characterize the mythical "good old days" of the past like sexual prudishness. Even when our parents were in college in the 1960s and '70s, dorms were largely segregated by gender, colleges employed "dorm mothers" to enforce often arbitrary social norms and the very conception they had of sex was far removed from ours today.
LIKE SO many other buzzwords of our political landscape, the term "fiscally conservative" is an overused phrase among many voters.
WITH ALL the enthusiasm of a dog forced to take its eye medication, President Bush announced last week that he would order the creation of an independent commission to investigate "intelligence failures" leading up to his administration's decision to go to war with Iraq.
In their long war against what they see as the encroaching "gay special interest agenda," conservatives have often displayed a visceral aversion to the very recognition of homosexuality itself.
AS THE country heads into another election year, even the politically uninformed have a pretty good idea what most of this year's talk will be about: national security and the slow recovery of the economy.
WHEN THE news broke last month that Saddam Hussein had been captured -- disheveled and disoriented, hiding in a dark hole in the ground -- it was hard to overstate the magnitude of the shockwaves that reverberated around the world.
