Dr. Julianne Malveaux

Those of us who abhor the objectives of Project 2025 must examine the organization behind them, because outrage at the results will not substitute for preparation of our own.

The Freedom 250 Grand Prix did not create our $40 trillion debt, but it illustrates the hypocrisy of people who preach austerity while spending public money on spectacle.

An inaccurate count can mean crowded classrooms, burdened clinics and inadequate transportation. Governments cannot plan intelligently for people who disappear from the data.

Slower inflation does not restore yesterday’s purchasing power. It means prices are rising more slowly. People waiting for their old grocery budget to buy their old grocery basket understand the distinction.

Beatty’s is righteous audacity: the moral nerve to confront illegitimate power and refuse to be muted.

Even as I decry the carnage in Paris and in Belgium, I am troubled that there is a disproportionate amount of compassion for those who are “first world” victims of terrorism and those who victims live in countries deemed less important in the international order of things.

If we want to remove vestiges of racial subjugation, we ought to pay attention to unemployment rate differentials and work as hard to eradicate them as we did to take down that Confederate flag in South Carolina.

We need to repair our nation’s safety net. Back in 1996, President Clinton and Congress ended “welfare as we know it” and substituted it with TANF, Temporary Aid for Needy Families. They pushed TANF through in the middle of an economic expansion. Today, we’re in the midst of a severe recession, with double-digit unemployment rates…