Issue: 1070
January 15, 2026
Commentary
Dr. King’s Triple Threat, Revisited
Editorial Board
When that man who lives in the House Enslaved People Built claims that white people are discriminated against by civil rights laws, he is not offering a provocative aside. He is attempting to invert King's moral framework.
We are living in a time of deep and dangerous instability. Wars are threatened or underway, democratic norms are eroding, and economic inequality is no longer…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
The NPR Tote Bag Resistance: Polite Words in an Ugly Power Grab
Columnist
History tends to show the opposite: when people finally win something, it's rarely because they were perfectly mannered.
The first thing to understand about “decorum” in American politics is that it’s not actually about manners. It’s about permission. So when Kamala Harris looked out…
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Commentary
Murdered Mother of Three Committed “An Act of Domestic Terrorism”
Guest Commentator
The outright falsehoods about the Minneapolis incident the Trump administration and the right-wing media echo chamber are manufacturing are problematic for many reasons
Millions of Americans and people worldwide mourned the tragic death of Minneapolis, Minnesota, resident and wife and mother of three children, Renee Good, whom a federal…
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Guest Commentary
US Attack on Venezuela: Marriage of Colonialism and Gangster Capitalism By
Guest Commentator
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated by media silence.
I watched the January 3rd nightly coverage on CBS and NBC of the U.S. assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his…
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