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. […]
Opinion
No peace or goodwill in Congress
Peace on Earth and goodwill to men this time of year seems increasingly absent in diverse places. In America the noble objective seems to have long ago […]
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 […]
Editorial Encore: A thank-you note for the front line
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial originally ran March 23, 2020. While parts of our lives have reached a “new normal,” front-line workers continue to bear the brunt of […]
COLUMN: If Jalen Bridges reaches a higher confidence level, he could share a similar story to former star Joe Alexander
MORGANTOWN — If there was a way of putting points on a basketball scoreboard other than putting the ball through the hoop, then there would be little […]
The Biden economy happens to be glorious
If Joe Biden takes office, there’ll be a “depression the likes of which you’ve never seen,” Donald Trump warned a month before he lost the 2020 presidential […]
Solar program robs from the poor, gives to the rich
Rooftop solar has a role to play in fighting climate change. But placing solar panels on every rooftop is an inefficient way to meet California’s clean energy […]
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. […]
