Are Ohio students ready to let market forces dictate what type of education they will receive? Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell must think so. The latest in a continuing series of school finance reforms emanating from Ohio's foremost publicity seeker would convert the state funding of schools to vouchers, injecting a heavy dose of free market capitalism into an otherwise competition-free public school system. On the surface, school competition promises accountability and choice.  Vouchers do  have a certain inbred American appeal.  But alas, as with most modern GOP (Gimmicks on Parade) "solutions," the rest of the story is never revealed until the damage is done.

In the same manner that a pathologically insecure and embittered spouse inevitably destroys a marriage to even the most noble partner, so too the Cleveland-area media and fans are in the process of driving LeBron James out of the emotional house-of-cards known as Cleveland.

60 years ago one of the most important events in shaping the modern Middle East took place in the tiny Palestinian town of Deir Yassin - yet few Americans are aware of it.

Too often programs that are ostensibly designed to address the needs of children are sabotaged by other priorities So, we wind up with politics-centered, bureaucracy-centered, adult-centered, and/or budget-centered policies—if we wind up with any policies at all.