Author: Terrance Heath

It\’s the kind of thing that\’s easily written off as a photo opportunity: a presidential candidate sitting down with a worried student and a financial aid administrator, working out a plan to help the student pay for her education. But, not if the candidate is one who understands the importance of education, and the difficulty…

It\’s that time again. Time for the watch to patrol the Sunday shows, on the look-out for a relevant question — should one get through. Which ones should get through? Make your suggestions and pose your questions in the comments, and when the guests are announced this evening we may pick some of your questions…

Picture by jcolman If my dad were alive, I know he\’d be hanging the flag in front of our house, where it would stay for the remainder of the weekend. A veteran of two wars, Korea and Vietnam, my father was fiercely patriotic. Yet, displaying the flag on Memorial Day and Veterans\’ Day was as…

I probably shouldn\’t be giving you advice, but maybe because I\’m a progressive, I can\’t see someone in crisis without having a desire to help if I can. Besides, a couple of you guys have offered advice and suggestions to one Democratic candidate — not to mention asking questions I assume were designed to be…

We\’re in the process of trying out some new approaches to the Weekend Watchdog. One of them is this open thread, where we hope longtime \”watchdogs\” and the uninitiated will engage in sorting out what questions about which issues and news items from the past week this Sunday\’s yet-to-be announced guests should face.

Forget green cards. A growing number of Americans are getting hitched to get health insurance. Some people marry for love, some for companionship, and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance. In a poll released today, 7% of Americans said they or someone in their household decided to…

This weekend, we attended a local conference for LGBT parents and families, and I spoke on a panel about interracial couples and inter-cultural families. At some point, I found myself speaking less as a gay dad and more as a Black man raising two Black sons, and wondering aloud just how I would prepare them…

It\’s almost a shame that the subprime mortgage bonanza burned out before the sun finally sets on the George W. Bush administration. After all, they managed to lure Americans into a war we didn\’t need and couldn\’t afford, then stuck us with a ballooning bill and never ending payments. Reborn as a brokerage firm dealing…