Leonard Pitts Jr.: LGBTQ kids, raise your voices and make haters hear you!

Columns & Analysis

Published
February 13, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: LGBTQ kids, raise your voices and make haters hear you!

I can only imagine how isolating and lonely it must feel, in the awkwardness of your adolescent years, to have a governor declare your sexual identity so abnormal it can’t be discussed in school — just when you may need to talk about it the most. If there’s some teacher you trust, he or she would now be breaking the law if you confide in them.
Published
February 12, 2022

Rich Lowry: Trudeau should give in to the truckers

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should give in to the truckers on the vaccination mandate, and then the protestors should declare victory and go home or, at the minimum, take a step back from any confrontation with the police.
Published
February 12, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Can anybody here play this game?

Democrats at the federal level aren't demonstrating much ability to govern. The burden weighs heavily because Republicans have proved to be the "anti-government" party. So, Dems must deliver, and so far they haven't brought home much bacon.
Published
February 11, 2022

Froma Harrop: Is the virus really over? We each get to decide

We may not "defeat" the virus anytime soon, but the vaccinated majority can feel they've "contained" it. For them, the pandemic may be over. For the others, maybe not.
Published
February 10, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: These are no ‘ordinary citizens’

(Republicans) accused the Jan. 6th Select Committee — the one Democrats in the House impaneled after Republicans refused to support a full congressional probe – of “the persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse.” Mind you, that “legitimate political discourse” gouged eyes and broke bones, erected a gallows and paraded a traitor’s flag through the people’s house.

Published
February 9, 2022

Cal Thomas: The real cause behind the rise in crime

Few wish to stand for what is right in contemporary society because they fear condemnation from people and "groups" that will tag them with negative labels. If we don't like the direction in which we are headed, it is time to yell "stop," then turn around and take a different road. The one we are now on will lead to our destruction.
Published
February 7, 2022

Will the diplomatic boycott of the Olympics push China on human rights?

As we consider the future of the U.S. effort to punish China for its treatment of the Uyghurs, and the future of the U.S.-China relationship more broadly, keep an eye on China's neighbors in the Asia-Pacific. Where they go, expect Washington to follow.
Published
February 7, 2022

Defusing ‘bombogenesis’: Don’t let weather buzzwords cloud the forecast

Looking at something as basic as adjectives and modifiers, we can find times when the more extreme of these can be perceived as being overplayed, even though many are fittingly applied. Think of these few as examples: Historic. Once-in-a-century. Epic. For-the-ages. It can be argued that overuse has blunted the power of those words and expressions.
Published
February 6, 2022

Federal government has a financial stake in your vaccination status

Taxpayers are footing the bill for those who continue to engage in wishful thinking or reckless denial about the dangers posed by this contagion.
Published
February 6, 2022

Austin Bay: The best media China can buy — or blackmail

Media — newspapers, TV talking heads, entertainers, reporters, internet trolls, TikTok exhibitionists — Beijing's influence, infiltration co-optation and blackmail operations target media large, minute and in-between.

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