Why do most Americans believe that Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player of all time? While I vehemently disagree, I do understand. His six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, six Finals MVP awards, five regular-season MVPs, and ten scoring titles certainly create a resume that appears untouchable. Yet, what the average observer fails…

Dear Bobby: As a boy living in refugee camps in Germany, I dreamed of a far-off utopia—a land called the United States of America—where justice ruled and all people loved one another. Sadly, having arrived on these shores in 1949 at the age of 13, I discovered that Americans were just as capable of bigotry…