Rich Lowry: Could DeSantis beat Trump?

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Published
January 23, 2022

Rich Lowry: Could DeSantis beat Trump?

The Trump-DeSantis storyline is inherently alluring, given the chances of a collision between two men who have been allies and the possibility of the subordinate in the relationship eclipsing the figure who helped to elevate him.
Published
January 23, 2022

Froma Harrop: Our bigfoot-prints on social media

Who among us doesn't have an unflattering headshot, gawky high school picture or gag photo of us clowning around? With any luck, the worst of them are hidden in drawers or pasted in albums (if they haven't been ripped up). The ones online, alas, we're stuck with for eternity.
Published
January 22, 2022

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Welcome to the newest age of hubris

Considering the number of people who think that rules apply only to the rest of us, this may well be known as a new age of hubris. Arrogance and its subset hubris surround us. And that trait may perfectly unite the Jan. 6 insurrectionists and their leader with other politicians, entertainers and athletes.
Published
January 21, 2022

Rich Lowry: Youngkin is right on masks

The Republican (governor of Virginia) issued an executive order allowing parents to decide whether their kids will wear masks in school, and met an instant wall of resistance from Democratic-controlled counties and criticism from the White House press secretary Jen Psaki. A Washington Post headline said that Youngkin is "terrifying people."
Published
January 21, 2022

Froma Harrop: Bringing star athletes back to Earth

It was with dry eyes that Australians waved goodbye to Novak Djokovic, the tennis superstar their country sent packing because he wasn't vaccinated against COVID-19.

Published
January 20, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sometimes you can’t help but grow weary

America changed, all right. Prodded by the stark racial fears of the political right, our politics became first shrill, then incoherent, then, one year ago this month, violent. They also became more exclusionary. Emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling that tore the heart from the Voting Rights Act, the right passed new Jim Crow laws designed to make voting more difficult for people of color.
Published
January 20, 2022

Austin Bay: Putin, Ukraine and the RUBK: Old news is current bad news

RUBK explained: "Rubik" as in the puzzle Rubik's Cube. RUBK is Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan. The demographics, natural resources and economic capacities these four nations possess is a geostrategic formula for a global power.
Published
January 19, 2022

Cal Thomas: Lying lips

The president went to Atlanta last week, where he made claims that would have sent a lie detector off the chart. With a tableau of mostly Black people behind him, Biden again asserted without credible evidence that Republicans are trying to stop minorities from voting. That this is probably false on many levels does not deter Biden, other Democrats, or fundraisers from making the claim because in addition to lying, they are also confirming their belief that too many voters accept whatever they are told from political leaders, especially Democrats.
Published
January 17, 2022

Exhausting Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy

The civil rights leader's name is the conservative rebuttal to concerns about systemic racism. King's name is a love song for bootstrapping individualists. It's akin to a glide path to a safe landing for anyone accused of trying to elevate themselves by diminishing others.
Published
January 17, 2022

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

King saw the grinding poverty facing Black people at home as inseparable from the war overseas. As he noted, “If our nation can spend 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet right here on earth.”

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