
Opinion & Essay
Notre Dame commencement protesters chose the wrong time and place
When I heard that a group of disgruntled Notre Dame students marched out of the graduation ceremonies in less-than-silent protest this we ...
8 years ago
The perils of asking press questions in Trumplandia
What happened last night in Montana was an apt metaphor for life in Trumplandia, a thuggish place where the Leader tags factual stories a ...
8 years ago
Looking to 2018, candidates sprouting this spring
They’re popping up like mushrooms — Democratic candidates for Congress that is, a crop apparently fertilized by the election of D ...
8 years ago
John Brennan charts the path to treason
It’s amazing how the Capitol Hill Republicans continue to beclown themselves in the service of Donald Trump. The more they try to m ...
8 years ago
Team Trump suddenly thinks that taking the Fifth is awesome
I’m old enough to remember when Donald Trump believed that invoking the Fifth Amendment’s right to remain silent was the same ...
8 years ago
Roger Ailes’ parting gift: Fox News is Trump’s Pravda
When someone dies, it’s good manners to say something nice. But Roger Ailes is truly a challenge. The founder of Fox News, w ...
8 years ago
Making real the racial faith, justice, and hope we talk about
A nightmare showed up to remind me that this is our time for struggle, and my voice is priceless. And silence won't make my dream come true. It has always been now.
8 years ago
Review: ‘White,’ or is it black?
Long before “alternative facts” became a concept the White House employs, James Ijames began writing his play “White, ...
8 years ago
The end of the Shore as we know it
The Jersey Shore is in danger, but instead of forcing it to adapt to what we want it to be and what we remember, we should adapt to what it will eventually become.
8 years ago
The shame of my father’s racism
It took me years to talk about the racism perpetuated by my father in public settings. I was ashamed and embarrassed by him most of my early life.
8 years ago
The secret meeting when House Republicans put Russia first
The Trump-Russia scandal news has been hurtling toward us with the force of a runaway 18-wheeler, but one particular gem this week warran ...
8 years ago
The good, the bad, and the ugly of free speech
Free speech is easy to support when you like what’s being said, but that’s not how the First Amendment works. This is somethi ...
8 years ago
Gunshots have come to my neighborhood. There mustn’t be a next time.
The popping sound that echoed outside my bedroom window was painfully familiar. I hadn’t heard that sound in years. But as after ...
8 years ago
Most of the cash raised in DA’s race exceeds city donor limits
Of the $5.3 million candidates and political committees spent on Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Philadelphia district attorney, m ...
8 years ago
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