December 4, 2025
Cover Story
Guest Commentator
Crass and blunt as his prior comments have been, even “quiet, piggy” somehow takes such rancor to an entirely new level of rudeness. Something that, even for this president, was over the line.
Karoline Leavitt gave a less than suitable response as to what prompted President Trump to flippantly insult a female reporter by calling her a “piggy,” after…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
The proliferating industry feels safe from scrutiny or prosecution. The few laws on the books are weak and rarely enforced.
In my home state of Missouri, a legislator is seeking to eliminate the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual abuse who want to file…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Black people wind up dead in the presence of law enforcement because their lives are discounted.
In light of police executions of Black people, calls to “defund the police” are warranted. This is because law enforcement is doing exactly what it was…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
So while the national fairy tale says, “The South had racism, the North had conscience,” the actual map looks more like this: the South specialized in lawful racial terror; the North specialized in polite racial exclusion.
America’s favorite bedtime story about race goes something like this: Daddy, tell me a bedtime story? Well sugar pie, once upon a time, there was a…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
This entire ecosystem of discount culture is built on someone else being discounted. What do we really gain from chasing sales that were never sales in the first place?
Consumers love a sale. We love the little red tag, the “limited time only,” the breathless “50% OFF!” that promises we’re getting over on somebody. At…
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