Mar 9, 2023
Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
Based on what we’re witnessing, they’ll vote for a man who the Klan endorses - if that’s what it takes to maintain their stranglehold on security, prosperity, affluence, and personal contentment.
Racism, sexism, classism, and xenophobia have a new name, it’s Trumpism, and it’s neither here nor there if Ron DeSantis is the 2024 Grand Pooh-Bah nominee…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
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Commentary
Editorial Board
In our very divided nation, volunteers remind us that we can come together for the common good of our communities. It doesn’t matter if volunteer firefighters are Democrats or Republicans. It matters that they’ve stepped up to serve.
The recent disgraceful derailment of the Norfolk Southern train in Palestine, Ohio, resulted from predatory capitalism on steroids. Railroads, given free land, have exploited the communities…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Myrlie Evers-Williams and Sybrina Fulton are two great women whose achievements demand our attention. Although their personal stories are separated by five decades, these women share parallel lives.
When people are faced with overwhelming trauma in their lives, some become consumed by their difficulties, while others emerge stronger for it. In special circumstances, they…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
The job of the V.P. is to support the president. Harris has to be politically adroit not to outshine Biden nor to disappear in his shadow.
President Biden had a cancerous lesion successfully removed from his chest last month that was just reported. At 80, questions continue about his fitness to serve…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The right has narrowed the parameters of discussion on student debt forgiveness, and President Biden is not fighting back aggressively enough. We should, in fact, center the idea of fairness in this debate.
“Nobody’s telling the person who is trying to set up the lawn service business that he doesn’t have to pay his loan,” said U.S. Supreme Court…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
This week at Fox News, Tucker Carlson suggested the rioters were mostly peaceful respectful sightseers.
Yoda, the Jedi Master, once told Luke Skywalker that the future is difficult to see because it’s always in motion. So too is the past. Always…
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