The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?'

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.