July 2, 2026
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Respect is not silence. Patriotism is not obedience. No flag gets to demand worship while standing over that much unfinished business.
Upside Down for a Reason July in America arrives wearing Polyester plaid, borrowed honesty, historical amnesia, and a “Made in China” flag pin. Every year, this…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
White Christian nationalists are exporting their American culture wars to Africa and getting people killed with "kill the gays" laws, and we see what they are doing.
White Christian nationalists are exporting their American culture wars to Africa and getting people killed with “kill the gays” laws, and we see what they are…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Congress can act. The administration can halt deportations. Communities can protect their neighbors.
Haiti is not an abstraction. Haiti is a nation whose pain has too often been treated as policy collateral, a people whose labor is welcomed when…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
Clearly, the nation's first Black first lady - glamorous, accomplished, and unapologetic - still lives, rent-free, in the minds of Trump and his MAGA supporters.
The, abhorrent comments directed at former First Lady Michelle Obama by a UFC fighter a few weeks ago, were not only offensive and inappropriate, but they…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The world's richest man embodies an oligarchic system that turns exploitation into achievement, racism into political spectacle, and unchecked private wealth into a weapon against democracy.
You can't have capitalism without racism.—Malcolm X Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue,…
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