Opinion & Essay

Grade-school characters tell a story about being black and poor in the '40s, adapted from Toni Morrison's novel.

Students at about 20 schools throughout Delaware will walk out of their school simultaneously on Wednesday to protest gun violence at schools around the country.

The late president’s second son nails an incontrovertible truth about our current political sinkhole.

I've definitely put myself out there. I'm playing the match game. And? I haven't found him yet.

Nothing reveals Trump's unparalleled sleaze more than the ever-burgeoning Stormy story.

Photographer J.J. Tiziou's yearly walk offers life lessons as well as myriad views of the city.

Mitzvahs are acts of kindness or reverence generally thought of as “good deeds," which may benefit individuals or the world at large. I’m way behind on my mitzvah bucket list.

Even in Texas we're now starting to see the makings of a national blue-wave backlash against the very stable genius.

The Oscars made me realize that no film is more compelling than the drama playing out in the city I’ve long called home.

Trump’s latest ode to autocracy, mouthed at Mar-a-Lago over the weekend, was predictably despicable. The temptation is to simply ignore it. Let's not.

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

For better or worse, the winners of the Oscar for best picture are a pretty good reflection of the year that was.

I'm not a "thoughts and prayers" kind of guy. For all those we’ve lost and all those we can possibly save, let’s do something before we must once again offer our condolences.

A student asked if I would carry a gun to school if instructed to do so. “No,” I said, without pause.

The biggest blunder of his disastrous pseudo-reign? Wow, that's a high bar. But Trump hurdled it with ease, triggering fire and fury among Republicans.