Feb 25, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
The Texas debacle should also remind us how intertwined we are.
Texas was freezing, and Senator Ted Cruz was looking forward to sizzling his way to a Cancun vacation. People didn’t have drinking water and were advised…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Rittenhouse continues a long tradition - since the slave patrols on the plantation - of self-deputized white men who believe their job is to police and terrorize Black people and kill them with impunity.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a white domestic terrorist who should spend a lifetime in prison. However, white nationalists, Donald Trump and the Republican Party view him as…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
It’s difficult to plan for tomorrow if today you are threatened by the presence of burning crosses on your lawn.
Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South -(Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit,” Abel Meeropol) Leaving behind nights of terror and fear…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Seeing electricity generation as a profit-making enterprise rather than the fulfillment of a public need, GOP policies in Texas have made the state vulnerable to such mass outages.
As Texas battles a severe snowstorm and mass power outages this winter, Tim Boyd, the now-former Republican mayor of Colorado City, revealed his party’s plan for…
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Commentary
Columnist
The only thing that was blind in that blind trust were the people who believed that he was not planning to rake in money by the ton.
For the most part, the U.S. presidency has not been a money-making proposition, but the former president, “45,” as he is known in some circles, apparently…
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Commentary
Columnist
teachers and their union leaders are repeatedly calling for teacher vaccinations before fully reopening schools.
After carefully following the ongoing demands for in-person education amid our unstable COVID-19 pandemic, it is becoming abundantly clear that reopening schools without taking into consideration…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
He deserves some credit for admitting that he engaged in a ferocious level of idiocy.
As many of you know by now, Morgan Wallace, the country music star, endured a torrential downpour of backlash after Wallace hurled the N-word all too…
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