Leonard Pitts Jr.: Fear is the great unspoken engine of American history

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Published
November 5, 2021

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Fear is the great unspoken engine of American history

I grant that I’m aware of no study offering empirical proof that kids are less traumatized by — and more open to — learning true American history than their elders. But I’ve seen plenty anecdotal evidence matching [educator Leo] Glazé’s experience. And it leaves me wondering what the kids make of all this. Have they been taught the painful truths of American history? How did it affect them? And if they haven’t been taught, would they like to be?
Published
November 5, 2021

Kate Dempsey and Mitch Sammons: Construction and conservation agree: Now is the time to invest in infrastructure

Two bills currently in Congress — the "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" and the "Build Back Better" legislation being advanced through budget reconciliation — contain necessary policies that will support our climate resilience in critical ways. While some of the details are still being worked out, we know these bills will provide major investments to reduce both emissions and costs across the residential, public, commercial, and industrial sectors.
Published
November 4, 2021

Rich Lowry: The life of Brandon

The trend of anti-Biden protestors chanting or holding signs saying, "F--- Joe Biden," or the cleaner version that has come to signify the same thing, "Let's go Brandon," is being portrayed as a new low in American politics.
Published
November 3, 2021

Cal Thomas: Trick spending bills are voodoo economics II

I am not a pessimist, but if these spending bills become law, which is still in doubt given the opposition of some Democrats, it will only advance our decline, massive debt being one of the contributing factors to the demise of other nations that engaged in profligate spending.
Published
November 3, 2021

Froma Harrop: The lefties, not liberals, are toxic to Democrats

Democratic voters really have to think strategically. That might include raising primary challenges to candidates more interested in their Twitter following than securing real power in Washington. The very democracy could depend on them.

Published
November 2, 2021

Leonard Pitts Jr.: America’s nightmare

For some of us, some nightmares simply matter more than others. Apparently, the one Blake Murphy had is more important than the one Toni Morrison wrote and the one Margaret Garner lived. It also seems to be more important than the nightmare America is now enduring, one of misguided priorities, misapplied resources and the misplaced anger of those who see “their” country changing and cannot handle it.
Published
November 1, 2021

Like Biden, JFK met the pope, and his handshake left many questions

Traditionally, Catholics like Kennedy were expected to greet the pope by kneeling, taking his right hand and kissing the papal ring, a symbol of the office. Decades later, questions remain about whether the president's decision to shake the pontiff's hand was meant as a statement that his faith and his service to the United States could coexist without, as critics ominously predicted, undue subservience to the Vatican.
Published
November 1, 2021

At age 16, my cousin killed a child. Does he deserve to die in prison?

Our separate juvenile justice system exists, in theory, because children — even those who have committed terrible violence — are both more vulnerable than adults and uniquely capable of change. Yet too often, the law decides that a child is no longer a child, and sentences him to an adult facility, sometimes for the rest of his life. And even our juvenile justice system, in many cases and places, has lost touch with its original mission to protect children and foster their rehabilitation.
Published
October 31, 2021

Rep. Joshua Morris: More health care workers are needed, not less

I believe that the COVID vaccine is a positive development, and I also believe that people should be able to choose what they put in their bodies. I also am stunned at the speed at which frontline workers went from COVID-fighting heroes to people worthy of attack simply because they don’t want to take the COVID vaccine.
Published
October 31, 2021

Cal Thomas: Free stuff isn’t free

Once we celebrated and encouraged success. Now we subsidize mediocrity and failure. We are then surprised we are getting more of the latter and less of the former. Do your homework. Don't be manipulated by the language used by politicians and TV ads promising free stuff.

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