The Speaker of the House has been doing the Tea Party's bidding on the payroll tax--but this time they demanded too much, and the GOP had to admit defeat.
Racial advancement is increasingly understood not as a process of social change but of individual promotion -- the elevation of a few black faces to high places.
Forty years after the fact, Edgar Killen is finally convicted of manslaughter in the killings of three civil rights workers. But the system that produced him remains alive and well.
