Untangling Ben Carson’s crackpot views
The craziest thing about the Republican presidential contest isn't that Donald Trump is in the lead. It's that Dr. Ben Carson — who truly seems to have lost his mind...
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The Eric Garner case’s sickening outcome
I can't breathe. Those were Eric Garner's last words, and today they apply to me. The decision by a Staten Island grand jury to not indict the police officer who...
What the police don’t want us to know
Michael Brown's death was part of a tragic and unacceptable pattern: Police officers in the United States shoot and kill civilians in shockingly high numbers. How many killings are there...
On Bill Cosby, hard to keep the faith
A few weeks ago, I spent a delightful afternoon and evening with Bill Cosby. I was the emcee of a gala for historically black Claflin University, which is in my...
Democrats need a reboot
All right, all right, I didn't see the wave coming. All those margin-of-error polls seemed to suggest that Democrats would likely hold their own — probably not keep the Senate...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
[Hugo] Chavez, [Daniel] Ortega and a few others, however, made a show of being rude. A flash of presidential anger from Obama would have been in order. My argument isn't...
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
I'm often asked why, given my lower-than-low opinion of this administration, I don't at least raise the subject of whether George W. Bush should be impeached. I answer with three...