Help our policymakers shape a fair and just narrative that works for all people.
The little progress the Obama administration has made towards creating a path to citizenship for involuntary immigrants has come through the steady pressure of the Dream movement, not just on government officials, but on news and cultural media, demanding a fairer narrative about immigration.
To be fair, the narrative hasn't been that well-tread on television.
The television show has taken a fair few narrative diversions throughout its run, and never more dramatically than it has across season five.
Like some other recent big novels with large ambitions, this one has its fair share of narrative sleights-of-hand and postmodern gewgaws.
It was itself, after all, a rewriting, and one that had done a fair amount of narrative violence to its 18th-century model.
Compared to Steinberg's eyewitness narrative, "Fair Game?," by Rebecca Zwick, a former researcher at the Educational Testing Service who is now a professor of education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, makes for calm reading.
It tells its potted version of Tolstoy's novel with a fair bit of narrative clarity; it manages many complex changes of scene deftly; its décor and costumes (by Mikael Melbye) are generally elegant; its extensive use of video projections (by Wendall Harrington) is unusual and effective; and most of its leading characters are immediately identifiable and distinct.
To be fair, the gay narrative may have come from an apocryphal document called "The Secret Gospel of Mark," but I must admit I'm partial to the idea of Jesus as a magician who engaged in sex with the men he baptized.
Mr. Obama's campaign should be judged by whether the narrative is fair, and realistic.
