Derrick Z. Jackson

Here is another shallow idea that reveals the depth of commercial predation on children. A start-up company in Needham, Mass., called BusRadio wants to put commercial radio on school buses....

President Bush said he invaded Iraq to rid the world of a madman. It is ever-more clear Bush went mad to start it. This week, The New York Times reported...

Neither Tim Wagner nor Mike Kreidler imagined how climate change would intrude into state insurance regulation. Wagner, the director of the Nebraska Department of Insurance, said the reality is literally...

Our commander in certitude went to Kansas State University last week. The publicized reason was to defend ultrasecret domestic spying. For much of his speech and question-and-answer period, President Bush...

Type 2 diabetes is sweeping so rapidly through America we need not waste time giving children bicycles. Just roll them a wheelchair. Forget the basketballs and baseballs. Give them Braille...

It is a way of life to talk about our way of life, without questioning the way our lives are headed. In his Dec. 18 address to the nation, President...

Richard Pryor's death puts into painful relief hip-hop's exploitation of the N-word. In 1993, Snoop Dogg said he used the word because "it's me." In 1996, Def Jam founder Russell...

We were promised transparent dignity. We got the invisible dungeon. All during the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney leaped all over President Clinton's sexual controversies. "We...

We are at the point where any study that shows how low-income schools can reach the heights of academic performance is also an indictment of how the nation has no...

Pride must go before he falls. This is why Samuel Alito Jr. hopped to liberal burrows on Capitol Hill to proclaim the burial of his conservative ideology. In his 1985...