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Why aren't critics of pandemic reopenings talking about California in the same breath as some other states? And what does that say about comba…
Under intense pressure from mostly Black community organizers, some local governments are responding to demands to defund the police and dives…
"Religious discrimination." It's an accusation we hear with increasing frequency. Indeed, discrimination on the basis of religion is one of th…
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear." My old UCLA coach, John Wooden, used to quote that Walt Whitman poem often, and I've been …
The novel coronavirus pandemic poses a severe challenge to elected leaders that far exceeds any headaches posed by budget crises or corruption…
My son, who is nearly 17 years old and Black, is afraid to go outside. "Mom, I am a Black guy wearing a mask in Oakland," he told me. "I am go…
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Commentary: Wear your masks, because my child needs to go to school this fall
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Commentary: Facebook: This is one boycott I am all in on
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Commentary: Trump could earn the tiniest bit of end-of-term redemption by simply putting on a mask
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Commentary: Is Trump thinking about quitting the 2020 race? He's an egomaniac so it's not likely
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Commentary: The shifting politics of face masks: Whose freedom is it?
Long before current market volatility, state and local pension debt posed a risk somewhere between a ticking time bomb and a crate of nitrogly…
Princeton University's president, Christopher L. Eisgruber, recently announced that Woodrow Wilson's name will be removed from the university'…
To make sense of the Supreme Court's decision in the "faithless electors" case, it helps to remember something pretty basic: When you vote in …
In my many years, I have often recounted a story of my encounter with a cop named Jim when I was an unsettled youth. With humble gratitude, I …
If there's a cruel way to handle an immigration issue, the nation can rest assured that the Trump administration will find it. The latest chap…
On Monday the Supreme Court gladdened the hearts of cellphone users by ruling that a 1991 federal law outlawing most robocalls could largely r…
President Donald Trump's proposal for a "National Garden of American Heroes," is a ludicrous, transparently political stunt. It's also his lat…
As concern over the impact of COVID-19 on prison populations began to mount, the federal Bureau of Prisons implemented a ban in March that pro…
Now that many states are reopening for business, it feels like we are returning to some semblance of normalcy. Scratch the surface of this new…
What happened to George Floyd on May 25 is a horrifying reminder of how deeply racist our society is. Those who deny that racism wasn’t the re…
The recent spike in U.S. COVID-19 infections has mercifully been accompanied by a declining death count. There were days in the spring when th…
Online schooling has failed. American schools need to reopen in the fall. It has now become obvious that the steady diet of online instruction…
Congressional Republicans put out a clear message recently: Face masks are OK. You should wear one. The concerted effort, reluctantly joined b…
The calls for real transformation of policing are urgent and needed, but not enough. Transformation can start, but not end, there. The police,…
is not a date Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is likely to forget anytime soon. Some of the most iconic and biggest spending brands in American l…
Wear your damn masks, because my child needs to go to school this fall. It's been approximately 3,839 days of quarantine, and I'm in a pretty …
Keep your hands visible. Don't be disrespectful. Say "yes sir, no sir." No sudden movements. These are the instructions inherited by Black chi…
Everyone knew what would happen. Coronavirus cases spiked after millions of people throughout the United States flooded shops and restaurants …
"DC should be a state. Pass it on." That's the message supporters of D.C. statehood pushed on social media late last week as the U.S. House of…
Donald Trump is responsible for a fair amount of badness in the 3 { years he's served as president of the United States: Dismantling and denig…
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