If It's Wrong For 13-year-old Inner-city Girls

So Much Of America's Tragic And Costly Failure To Care For All Its Children Stems From Our Tendency To Distinguish Between Our Own Children And Other People's Children--as If Justice Were Divisible.

You're Not Obligated To Win. You're Obligated To Keep Trying To Do The Best You Can Every Day.

I Worry About The Kids Who Have Too Much. As A Parent Living In A So-called Good Neighborhood With Children Who Went To Private High School, I Found Myself Spending Much Time In Parent Groups Worrying About Alcohol, Unsupervised Parties, And Parents Not Being Parents. We've Got To Send Messages To Our Kids About What Is Important.

We're A Violent Nation, And We Need To Confront It. This Gun Plague Has To Stop.

If Things Are Too Easy, Life Is A Whole Lot Less Interesting.