Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its s….

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal..

In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically….

Within the world of TV land, into which American life has been reduced as well as reproduced, the phenomenon of the talk show has emerged as a genre ….

We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think..

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in sc….

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst..

Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving ….

I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegeta….

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages..

Viktor Frankl's timeless formula for survival. One of the classic psychiatric texts of our time, Man's Search for Meaning is a meditation on the irre….

the solution to racism lies in our ability to see its ubiquity but not to concede its inevitability. It lies in the collective and institutional powe….