Thomas Lang

Sixty-seven minutes into last week’s presidential debate in Coral Gables, Florida, moderator Jim Lehrer took a time-out from the discussion on Iraq and terrorism to ask about an often-overlooked foreign-policy issue: genocide in the Sudan. Lehrer noted he could not find evidence of either campaign addressing the possibility of sending troops to Sudan. “Why not?” […]

When President Bush recently described marriage as a “union between a man and a woman,” he was no doubt being careful to pay lip service to the “protection” rationale for last week’s “Marriage Protection Week.” Bush went on to say that his administration was working to “encourage marriage,” invoking, as conservatives often do, the idea […]