by Jessi Hollis McCarthy Let’s talk about “fake news.” You’ve likely heard the term before. It can be used to describe false content masquerading as actual […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
‘Showing up’ matters
by Jill Ebstein Memories come at the oddest times. I was 14, in a body cast and confined to my bed for five months. I was to […]
Who needs Scorsese? The Osage can tell their own stories
by Bobby Ghosh Only a director of Martin Scorsese’s status could eschew exploitation and abuse privilege in the same movie. His “Killers of the Flower Moon,” starring […]
Don’t grow all the way up, it’s a trap!
by Robin Abcarian The other night, after a long family dinner, my 13-year-old niece disappeared into our downstairs closet and soon reemerged with a box of toys […]
Who’s House Speaker Mike Johnson?
by Jackie Calmes “MAGA Mike” won. Which means, alas, so did Rep. Matt Gaetz. For Gaetz, the smarmy Trump Mini-Me from Florida, and his fellow Republican nihilists, […]
More lives at stake when journalists killed
by LZ Granderson CNN anchor Sara Sidner was live on air from the West Bank when she was confronted by an angry pro-Palestine protester. He walked up […]
Blame the House, not the U.S. Constitution, for the speaker mess
by Noah Feldman On the surface, the gridlock caused by the Republican Party’s failure to elect a speaker of the House of Representatives looks like a dysfunction […]
Sports are part of the college curriculum, too
by Tyler Cowen For many foreigners, the prevalence of athletics is one of the strangest features of the U.S. system of higher education. America is a leader […]
California has the right idea but the wrong plan for the homeless
by Claudia Sahm California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s latest attempt to reduce homelessness by forcing those who are living on the streets and experiencing mental health issues or […]
The true crime story of the Osage Nation would take a century to tell
by Torivio Fodder Director Martin Scorsese’s new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land […]
