February 12, 2026
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
When people of color hear these phrases about what this country is not, it exposes either the political naivete of the speaker or their dormant racism.
“This is not who we are.” “This is not the America we know.” “This is not how the Leader of the Free World acts.” These are…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Acting like inclusion is tyranny, because privilege always thinks equality is theft.
“White Americans have nothing to apologize for,” Senator JD Vance insists, as if the United States didn’t spend centuries perfecting the craft of stealing land, stealing…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Such mistreatment manifested itself in the form of Jim Crow, chattel slavery, lynching, wanton violence, and other abominable forms of marginalization.
Pretty much anyone with a pulse is aware of President Donald Trump’s social media account where he shared a clip of former President Barack Obama and…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
A ten-hour reduction in a workweek does not register as unemployment, but it can mean the difference between rent and eviction, medication and delay, food and scarcity.
Labor economists like me mark our calendars for the first Friday of each month, when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases The Employment Situation. In February,…
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