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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown greets family members of victims of the Tops grocery store shooting following an event with President Joe Biden on May 17, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. "The social media companies need to be held accountable," Brown said.

Jonathan Zimmerman: Fight hate with speech, not with censorship

May 18, 2022 at 6:11 p.m.

The man accused of killing 10 African Americans at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was virulently antisemitic as well as a racist. Indeed, he blamed Jews for the so-called "great...

Philadelphia Police Academy graduates take the oath to become officers on April 8, 2022.

Jonathan Zimmerman: Progressives have turned a deaf ear to minority communities’ calls for more police

April 12, 2022 at 6:17 p.m.

I live in Philadelphia, a hugely unequal city. Our access to education, transportation and health care — and the quality of these services — often depends on our ZIP codes....

The Georgetown Day School in Washington on March 24, 2022.

Jonathan Zimmerman: What colleges can learn from Georgetown Day School’s embrace of multiple viewpoints

March 29, 2022 at 4:49 p.m.

Let's start with the easy part. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was wrong to harangue Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing about books allegedly used to teach...

Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court, during her nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 16, 2010.

Op-ed: Why Biden should nominate J. Michelle Childs to be our next Supreme Court justice

January 31, 2022 at 1:22 p.m.

Leondra Kruger is the daughter of two doctors. She graduated from Harvard College and attended law school at Yale University. Ketanji Brown Jackson's father was a lawyer, and her mother...

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2018, in Washington, D.C., as the court issued a 5-4 ruling upholding then President Donald Trump's policy imposing limits on travel from several primarily Muslim nations.

Op-ed: Islamophobia flared after 9/11 and still rages. But the good news: Muslim Americans feel embraced by many.

September 16, 2021 at 9:40 p.m.

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, America witnessed a spike of anti-Islamic bigotry and hate. Denounced as security threats by some politicians and media outlets, Muslims were assaulted and...

Tarps cover the bases of Weber Arch at Northwestern University in Evanston after it was vandalized by anti-police protesters on Oct. 20, 2020.

Op-ed: Who condemned the summer looting? Our university presidents mostly failed us.

January 22, 2021 at 6:52 p.m.

Hey, check out those hypocritical Democrats! They can't stop talking about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But last summer, as Black Lives Matter protesters burned our cities,...

Commentary: Why efforts to censor Abigail Shrier’s book will backfire and hurt transgender people

November 23, 2020 at 11:50 p.m.

In October 1954, the U.S. post office in Los Angeles seized copies of a gay-themed magazine and accused its editors of violating the federal law that barred sending "obscene, lewd,...

Students on campus at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Sept. 29, 2020.

Commentary: Free speech and college campuses: Why are students censoring themselves, and will Joe Biden help?

November 13, 2020 at 6:44 p.m.

In his fiery first speech after becoming the presumptive president-elect, Joe Biden called on Americans to turn down the heat. "It is time to put away the harsh rhetoric, lower...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in an interview during a luncheon at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2015.

Commentary: Ruth Bader Ginsburg practiced anti-cancel culture

September 21, 2020 at 10:39 p.m.

In 2015, at a Harvard University luncheon held in her honor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was asked what advice she would give young women today. "Fight for things you care about,"...

The New York Times building, on 8th Avenue in Manhattan, Feb. 8, 2020. Executives at The New York Times scrambled to address the concerns of employees and readers who were angered by the newspaper's publication of an opinion essay by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) calling for the federal government to send the military to suppress protests against police violence in American cities.

Commentary: When the Twitter mob takes on George Floyd, Tom Cotton and police power, we all lose

June 9, 2020 at 10:59 p.m.

Last week gave us more reason to believe that our president is an illiberal authoritarian, much like Vladimir Putin and the other overseas autocrats he admires. Faced with massive protests...

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