July 16, 2026
Cover Story
Editorial Board
Imagine generations of Americans encountering Tubman not only during Black History Month, but every day - at the ATM, the corner store and the kitchen table. That is why representation on currency matters. It is history placed into circulation.
As an economist, I have spent much of my life thinking about what money does. It measures value. It facilitates exchange. It stores wealth. But money…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
If one man cannot eat and another man has $25 million, the problem is not envy, laziness, grit, prayer, branding, or financial literacy. The problem is a nation so hypnotized by money that it calls a starving man bitter for noticing the Texas roadhouse.
America does not need yet another fire-and-brimstone sermon. This culturally polarized empire needs a double shot of truth, straight, bitter, smoking, and served in a glass…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
They despise the fact that a Black woman’s stoic silence ripped open the pathology, fear, and fecklessness of those White men.
Reuters photographer Chaney Orr took the photo that has launched numerous conversations. He showcased a young Black woman, Bernita Bowlding, sitting alone on the Metro in…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The union organizer and democratic socialist challenging Rep. Jared Moskowitz argues that Democrats cannot defeat the right by imitating it.
Once regarded as the nation’s most important swing state, Florida has moved sharply to the right under Republican control. Donald Trump has carried the state three…
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