Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sorry, Donald, not interested

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Published
December 5, 2021

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sorry, Donald, not interested

There are two schools of thought on whether he’ll seek the presidency again. Both center on his fragile ego. One holds that he must run because that ego simply can’t absorb the humiliation of losing. The other holds that he can’t run because that ego simply can’t risk the humiliation of losing twice.
Published
December 5, 2021

Rich Lowry: The Supreme Court isn’t a medical board or legislature

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, involving Mississippi's ban on abortion after 15 weeks, is, of course, the most consequential abortion case to reach the Supreme Court in decades. The arguments, as you would expect, featured plenty of intricate legal discussion.
Published
December 5, 2021

Austin Bay: A date which will live in infamy

Dec. 7, 1941. "A date which will live in infamy," President Franklin D. Roosevelt called it. The attack's 80th anniversary is this month.
Published
December 5, 2021

Despite the recent controversy, we can count on juries

Under the right conditions, a jury remains an honest arbiter and great leveler, perhaps the only one left in society in which the outcome of consequential disputes can be insulated from the corrosive influence of wealth, political power and mass media.
Published
December 4, 2021

Froma Harrop: Forcing teens to have babies would not be good for Republicans

About four of every five Americans want to keep abortion legal. Roe v. Wade has given anti-abortion politicians the ability to placate "pro-life" voters while not inconveniencing the others. But make one's daughter, one's wife or oneself fly from Mobile, Texas, to Seattle, Washington, for a procedure that once was locally available, and there are going to be repercussions at the polls.

Published
December 4, 2021

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Justice unfolds, but slowly

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," Dr. Martin Luther King told us four days before he was murdered. He didn't say it bends steadily or quickly.
Published
December 4, 2021

Cal Thomas: Connecting the dots

The Supreme Court has an opportunity to correct a great legal and greater moral wrong if it will "seize the time" and connect the dots between abortion, the unique value of human life at all stages, and the social upheaval that is consuming us because of the court's refusal in the last 48 years to restore legal protection to the most vulnerable among us, the unborn child.
Published
December 3, 2021

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The social covenant has shattered

You don’t stand facing the back wall of an elevator. In heavy traffic, you take turns merging. You stop at the red light even when the street is deserted. And, oh yes, you don’t join a mob to ransack a store.
Published
December 2, 2021

Cal Thomas: Isn’t it rich?

The death of composer Stephen Sondheim at 91 is more than the end of an era. It is the end of a chain of great Broadway musicals dating back to the 1920s, when Jerome Kern's "Showboat" first dazzled theater audiences.
Published
November 30, 2021

Rich Lowry: The shoplifting capital of the USA

The shoplifting problem represents a deliberate choice rather than an unstoppable tide. Modern societies long ago figured out how to maintain civil order such that law-abiding people could buy and sell goods without being systematically preyed on by thieves. It's just that the Bay Area has chosen to forget.

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