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Editorial: Iraq and beyond
If the White House doesn't show patience in dealing with Iraq, it risks losing international support that will be crucial in the broader war against terrorism.

Editorial: What's good about vampire bats
It's hard to shake a bad reputation. Hope for the maligned of the world exists, however, and it comes from something burdened with the worst reputation of them all. The vampire bat.

Editorial: Government's path of secrecy
"A government operating in the shadow of secrecy stands in complete opposition to the society envisioned by the Framers of our Constitution," wrote Judge Damon Keith of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati last year. "When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation."

Letters: Mixing opinion and reporting is troublesome
Re: Free speech takes a hit in our nation's newsrooms, by Mary Jo Melone, Jan. 12.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Two birds of a feather in football fanaticism
Monica Higgins trained her macaws to cheer her favorite football team.

John Romano: Young assistants make it work
TAMPA -- They made quite the pair, these two. A couple of faceless characters on largely thankless missions. Thrown together with little in common beyond their shared burdens.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.