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Tue, August 20, 2019 | 14:01

Democrats at war with peace

Heaven help us, because politics surely isn't. Now we have two Democratic presidential candidates saying that a white policeman was committing murder when he shot and killed an innocent black man in Ferguson, Mo.

2019-08-18 17:10

History seems to be repeating in Russia, China

It's beginning to feel like 1980s news tape showing America's despotic enemies running amok. In Russia, a mysterious fatal explosion a few days ago in one of the country's 10 secret cities where nuclear research takes place has caused an uptick in radiation and raised alarm around the world.

2019-08-16 17:25

Justice for Jeffrey Epstein's accusers

The death of convicted sex offender and wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail cell Saturday provided yet another shock in a grotesque, appalling story that still has many unanswered questions.

2019-08-14 17:15

Who should fight the war on white nationalism

In the aftermath of the mass shootings in Ohio and Texas, a bipartisan consensus is emerging that America must wage a war on white nationalist terror.

2019-08-12 17:18

National reminder-in-chief recalls better days

This was a week when Americans, reeling in our collective anguish after 31 mass-murders in two cities, discovered we need to re-learn history's lessons about a few things we thought we'd never forget.

2019-08-11 15:55

Gun safety laws are welcome

The value of a new state law requiring background checks on ammunition purchases has quickly been established. In a court filing related to a lawsuit pending in San Diego federal court that seeks to block the law, Attorney General Xavier Becerra revealed that the state had blocked more than 100 felons and others from buying ammo after they had failed mandatory background chec...

2019-08-09 16:46

McConnell might be worse than Trump

Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky, but he epitomizes what is wrong with the nation's capital. McConnell is a 77-year-old white man who has been running the Senate - deciding its agenda and what will or will not be voted on by all 100 senators - longer than any previous Republican in history. He was first elected to the Senate in 1984 and was last re-elected w...

2019-08-09 16:45

Toni Morrison wouldn't let us forget our racist past

Forgetting the past, or refusing to see it, to understand it and to grapple with it, is as sure a path as there is to tearing the present apart. It seems that today, as we mourn the death of the novelist Toni Morrison, we should reflect on this terrible strain of forgetting that is infecting our country.

2019-08-08 17:05

Why Toni Morrison mattered

A dizzy nation that reads less than it should, and does so in increasingly short bursts, must breathe deeply and absorb the passing of a woman whose words over five decades have captured the tragic, infuriating, beautiful essence of the human condition.

2019-08-08 16:28

Trump's cynical response to mass shootings

After a weekend of numbing carnage _ at least 30 dead and more than 50 injured in mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, _ President Trump stepped forward Monday morning with a tweet calling for a bilateral embrace of “strong background checks,” whatever that means, and “perhaps marrying this legislation with desperately needed immigration reform.”

2019-08-07 16:44

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