When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.
My personal missteps - how many Americans have died as a result of that? None. Other than my family, how many victims were there? None. And yet, in refusing to engage in a responsible debate about Iraq, how many Americans died? Thousands. And America...
While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose em...
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.
Every American should have a say in the memorials we choose to build in our nation. Family members have a special responsibility.
I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what constitutes 'a family unit' to such a tiny scale that it...
The Mommy Wars, as they stand today, serve as an effective check on the ambitions of the American mother. The phenomenon keeps women in a perpetual state of guilt, shame and inadequacy, and does so without involving anyone but wealthy white women.
I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer...
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
And it was from Boston that one in every six American families began their journey into the land of the free.
No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.
Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.
I stand with the majority of Americans who believe that women will make the right choice for their families and everyone will win.
(Prisoners) need an education. They need a GED to start with. Then they need some kind of training so when they get out they have a marketable skill. That way they can support themselves and they can support their families.
If you believe that life should be full of adventure , then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue...
The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of...
