by Jay Ambrose For a quite a while, progressives were calling our country’s painful inflation mild and “transitory,” meaning it would last just a yawn or two […]
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Confessions of an incurable optimist
by Doyle McManus Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines […]
Worst-case scenarios unasked, unresolved
by Martin Schram Outside, millions of desperate people have been standing for hours in lines stretching around the corners of America’s city streets and suburban strip malls. […]
We’re poisoning ourselves with war
by Robert C. Koehler EDITOR’S NOTE: Leonard Pitts is on vacation this week. His next column will appear on Jan. 6. War spews hell in all directions. […]
Disappointing 2022 Pentagon budget
by Elizabeth Shackelford On Dec. 15, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual legislation authorizing the yearly defense budget. At $768 billion, it breezed […]
Through compassion, we can transform the current culture war
by David Campt America is immersed in a culture war that is a new manifestation of its age-old problem with race. School board meetings across America have […]
bell hooks: Mentor and ‘mighty fire’
by Rebecca Walker bell hooks was one of the mighty fires in which I was forged, the first person to say I was a real writer, to […]
The crisis of democracy is a media crisis
by Lorraine Ali This time last year, there was a cruel joke in circulation: The most spiteful year in recent memory would reset itself at midnight Dec. […]
Dems shouldn’t blame Manchin
by Ramesh Ponnuru The Democrats should have listened to Joe Manchin. As their “Build Back Better” agenda assumed legislative shape, the Democratic senator from West Virginia kept […]
Burned-out health care workers and ‘muffin rage’
by Jillian Horton On a dreary morning more than 20 years ago, I was a resident in internal medicine putting in 80-hour workweeks for what amounted to […]
