Opinion - Cynthia Tucker

WASHINGTON -- Last month, Lt. Col. Lee Archer, the only confirmed "ace" among the Tuskegee Airmen, died at the age of 90. Full Story »

Could abstinence education work, after all? Could teaching kids to just say "no" to sex persuade them to do just that? Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Hope and change, allow me to introduce you to money and lobbyists. Compromise and bipartisanship, come meet ideological purity. Now, let's see if we can get some work done. Full Story »

Perhaps I was dazzled by Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith" and Aaron Sorkin's President Bartlet, but I've long believed that most citizens seek public office because they want to do the right thing. Many have different views of that right thing than I do. And, as we all know, many of them succumb to temptations that take them far off course, where they indulge greed, selfishness and a hunger for power. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Last Sunday's traffic jam around the Haitian embassy was a small, but poignant, reminder of American generosity: After a call went out for clothes, baby formula, batteries and other items, the old mansion that houses Haiti's diplomatic mission here was swamped. Cars lined up for blocks as citizens gave what they could. Full Story »

For my daughter: Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- My mother has always been obsessive about making certain that her grown children have health insurance. Her Depression-era childhood in the rural, segregated South taught her the hazard and heartbreak that can engulf those without the financial resources to get medical care. Full Story »