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Breaking news -- Gaffes, goofs and gotchas -- Weaponized umbrage -- Bill Cosby's culture war -- The political science of language -- Diversity anxiety -- Profiling: the acceptable prejudice -- Giants worth remembering -- Crime and Cures? -- Prison Pipelines. New anti-incarceraton coalition -- Heat-seeking media (or, if you can't say anything nice, host a talk show) -- Obama world vs. Palin nation -- Tea Party culture wars -- How the party of Lincoln lost people of color -- Farewell to alms?' Black conservatives offer remedies, too -- Big ideas: a pursuit of whatever works -- Marriage slips out of style? -- Wooing women's votes -- History isn't even past -- Getting Personal -- Columns that won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

"The first collection of columns from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and nationally syndicated journalist Clarence Page, touching on politics, social commentary, pop culture, new media, race, and family"--