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Bob Herbert on earning college credits while still in high school.
Richard Cohen needs to be put on a suicide watch.
Derrick Z. Jackson:
On the surface, the American Dream for African-Americans has risen on a steady slope right into the White House. Not only did the United States elect its first black president in 2008, that was also the same year, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program, that the percentage of African-Americans who live in the suburbs crossed the 50 percent mark. “Within metropolitan areas,’’ the report said, “the 2000s indicate that the nation is well on its way toward achieving greater city-suburban racial and ethnic integration.’’
But below the surface, there remains a terrible silent segregation. Yesterday, Brandeis University’s Institute on Assets and Social Policy released a report that found that the wealth gap between white and African-American families more than quadrupled in the last quarter century.
Marc Thiessen seems to be holding a grudge over a speech David Cameron made when Thiessen was still a part of the Bush White House.
Joanna Weiss:
One axiom of our Medicare system: It’s hard to understand how maddening it is until something happens to your family.
Another axiom: Eventually, something will happen to your family.
The Washington Times editorial page is nearly all about opposing Eleana Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court ... so pick your poison.
Jeffrey Birnbaum wants people to stop being "spooked" by the environmental disaster in the Gulf and to "drill, baby, drill.