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In attempting to "unite" the country, Gov. George W. Bush should focus attention on women. Women voters favored Vice President Gore by 11 points in the recent election. For the first time, women will make up more than 10 percent of the Senate -- and could form the basis for a bipartisan coalition supporting policies that favor women, children and families. Most important, women are in need of solutions to the daily dilemma they face: balancing family and work, and… more

When I was in Air Force Officers' Training School, we briefly hosted cadets from the Air Force Academy. We didn't get along well. Capping off the visit, we played a very strange baseball … more

At his recent meeting with Asian leaders, President Clinton made news by meeting with China's president and once again calling for a rapid conclusion of China's long … more

Why is it that the popular imagination flies so high, while the political imagination just creeps along? TV, movies and video games bubble with enthusiasm for space exploration, but politicians, including the… more

The Art of War, Sun-Tzu's 4th century B.C. treatise on military strategy, says that the most important weapon in any nation's arsenal is spies, because spies contribute … more

Last year, a Guyanese woman who runs a natural-hair salon asked me to be one of her models for a magazine ad. Like me, she is militantly opposed to blacks straightening their hair (approximately … more

The annual deadline for filing income tax returns came and went last week with surprisingly little of the usual fanfare and political grandstanding. Lest one be tempted to think that the quiet surrounding Tax Day was mostly due to the good economic times, a more convincing explanation may lie in the widespread ignorance that the largest levy that three-quarters of American families now pay is not the income tax, but the regressive payroll tax.

If Texas Gov. George W. Bush and… more

The first major post-Seattle item on the Clinton administration's trade agenda will be China--completing the process of bringing that country into the World Trade Organization and gaining congressional support for the move.

Unfortunately for the Clinton trade team, neither step will prove easy. Europe has issues … more

In the unforgiving algebra of presidential politics, the "Hispanic vote" has long been a constant. The major parties have both marked it down on the Democratic side of the equation, and then looked elsewhere for the variables that would help them win the White House.

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Anyone who has followed America's culture wars of the past few decades can be excused for thinking that the process of assimilation is a thing of the past. Right-wing nativists have been chanting their mantra that contemporary immigrants are actively resisting mainstream culture and will never integrate. Left-wing multiculturalists and ethnic nationalists… more