Joseph Carter: Sharing my perspective on homelessness

Columns & Analysis

Published
April 30, 2022

Joseph Carter: Sharing my perspective on homelessness

Navigating through the obstacles of homelessness with several other strikes against me has often felt impossible. At one point I told my closest friend that I just wanted to go back to prison. But I couldn’t figure out how to do that without hurting someone in some way. And I didn’t want that. But I felt desperate. And that can get scary.
Published
April 30, 2022

Austin Bay: A soldier dies in the Biden Border War and China’s Strategic Drug War

Bishop Evans died as a soldier fighting in two wars threatening America.
Published
April 29, 2022

Rich Lowry: In defense of Vikings

What popular depictions of the Vikings tend to leave out ... is how these Northmen or Norsemen built as well as destroyed, governed as well as marauded. They had a large hand in setting the contours of medieval Europe and creating a cultural inheritance that still shapes the West today.
Published
April 28, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: A bad Monday for freedom

This week’s headlines point, in disparate ways, to the same threat. Meaning a corrosion, not simply of the people’s right to know, but of their very ability to know. In that sense, it doesn’t matter whether you and I are in step on which story left us most dyspeptic.
Published
April 27, 2022

Cal Thomas: What would Walt think?

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill, passed by the Republican-majority legislature, that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando.

Published
April 25, 2022

A teacher fired years ago for being gay watches it all happen again

Culture warriors — from social media accounts like Libs of Tik Tok to legislation like the Florida bill — are getting teachers disciplined and even fired for speaking about the undeniable configuration, nature and geometry of human relationships.
Published
April 24, 2022

GOP did more damage to trust in the judiciary than to Jackson’s nomination

It's too bad that U.S. Senate Republicans couldn't act more like Maine legislators when it came to historic confirmation hearings.
Published
April 24, 2022

Cal Thomas: Free at last (until the next time)

This is what freedom looks like: If you want to wear a mask, wear one. If you don't want to wear a mask, don't wear one.
Published
April 24, 2022

Jamie Miller: Advocacy from the Children’s Advocacy Center lens

Children's Advocacy Centers offer a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work collaboratively to reduce the impact and trauma that a child and family might experience following a disclosure of abuse.
Published
April 24, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Democrats should challenge Republicans to climb

Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow’s triumph was to cut through the hail of idiocy with an implicit reminder that the moral high ground is held, not by those who objectify and thingify, who demonize, marginalize, scapegoat and fearmonger, but by those whose compassion isn’t bound by tribe, those whose hearts dwell with “the least of these,” those who build bridges in place of walls.

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