Media Project Op-Ed

Kindergarten post-No Child Left Behind is being turned into a maze of tests. As a result, many young children instantly dislike school. Worse, they are made to feel like failures from the start.read more

Instead of dealing with appalling unemployment figures, high home foreclosure rates and lack of credit for small businesses, Republicans are targeting the most vulnerable population in this country: undocumented immigrants.read more

Ninety years ago, on Aug. 26, 1920, women won the right to vote, and Wisconsin has the proud honor of being the first state to have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment.read more

The on-again-off-again presidential candidacy of music star Wyclef Jean is a distraction for Haiti.read more

On Sept. 11, 2001, my daughter was on her fourth day at Stuyvesant High School, just a couple of blocks off the World Trade Center.read more

Right now is a crucial moment for qualified immigrants to become naturalized American citizens.read more

“The Kids Are All Right” perpetuates stereotypes based on sexual orientation, gender and race.read more

Insurance companies should not be allowed to cheat the families of dead American soldiers and Marines.read more

Aug. 13 is the 100th anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale, a fitting time to see who she really was and what she really did.read more

Now that the BP oil well has been plugged, it’s more urgent than ever to address the Gulf Coast “dead zone.”read more

The call by some conservative lawmakers to repeal the 14th Amendment represents the worst of America.read more

Aug. 4 was a joyous day for gay and lesbian Americans.

It was the day U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker overturned Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage.read more

It should do away with mandatory minimums and allow judges to treat every person as an individual. It should invest in the lives of young people so they don’t get involved in drugs. And it should focus on substance abuse treatment for those who get hooked.read more

The president and his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, have adopted policies that have had far more in common with the previous administration than expected.read more

Forty years ago, workers in the United States won a great victory.

On July 29, 1970, the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) ended its successful grape boycott when the growers agreed to sign the first contract with the union.read more