Column: It’s time for a new Voting Rights Act
This is an emergency. Election Day is little more than four months off, voters facing their most important choice since 1860: Donald Trump or America? It's a decision that will...
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Commentary: For Memorial Day, a reminder of how much it took
"Oh beautiful, for heroes proved In liberating strife Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life." — "America The Beautiful," by Katharine Lee Bates And Memorial...
Commentary: As the pandemic goes on, cling to hope
"Tomorrow, robins will sing." — Stevie Wonder "Tomorrow there'll be sunshine, and all this darkness past." — Bruce Springsteen "Hurry, tomorrow. Tomorrow, I need you now." — The Temptations In...
Commentary: Living in Trump’s Post-Integrity America
Back during the scandal over his sexual exploitation of a young intern, Bill Clinton was pilloried in this space for his moral defects. To which many liberals responded with derision....
Commentary: Will African American voters forgive Michael Bloomberg?
Vote blue, no matter who. That's the fall election mantra of Democrats desperate to cleanse the White House of its current occupant. But here's the question some African Americans are...
Commentary: The GOP is playing the game by different rules
Let's try a thought experiment. Suppose your friend invites you to play Monopoly. But suppose she insists on a set of special rules applicable only to her. Like when she...
Commentary: Fascism in America? It can happen here.
I was maybe 10 years old when this happened. Mom is driving, I'm in the back seat. It's night. She's trying to cross Vermont Avenue, a busy Los Angeles thoroughfare,...
Commentary: Donald Trump warns of civil war. Aren’t we already there?
"If Democrats are successful in removing the president from office (which they never will be), it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country...
Commentary: We are a nation rotting from within
Only the ball bearings were missing. The reference, for those who don't know, is to Humphrey Bogart's performance as the emotionally unstable Captain Queeg in the 1954 film "The Caine...
Commentary: Cruelty is the point, but is it evil?
We meet, my friends, in the face of evil. In popular culture and historical memory, of course, evil has many faces. It is Darth Vader raising a lightsaber and Dr....