A departure and a return: In the legend of Moorish Spain, Boabdil, the last Muslim ruler of Granada, is said to have paused on a ridge for a final glimpse of the realm he had just surrendered to the Castilians...
Many people hoped that the election of a black President of the United States would mark our entering a “post-racial” era, when we could finally put some ugly aspects of our history behind us...
America's war over affirmative action has gone on longer than any of the country's military conflicts, and over the decades each side of this debate has spawned a vast literature of argument...
To listen to Europe's far right, it would be easy to conclude that the continent is poised for another round of bitter conflict with a centuries-old adversary...
It is becoming increasingly clear that the opposition protests that have rocked Iran over the past month have seriously undermined the credibility of the regime...
During Judge Sonia Sotomayor's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings on her nomination to the Supreme Court – confirmation she is certain to win – one of the most controversial issues discussed was the judge's signing on to a very brief appellate-court ruling affirming a lower court's decision to support a city government's invalidation of a promotion test for firefighters, which the majority – all of them white, though one was of Puerto Rican background – had passed...
