Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

I am just an ordinary Catholic.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.