Froma Harrop: The witch trials were really not funny

Columns & Analysis

Published
October 30, 2022

Froma Harrop: The witch trials were really not funny

Salem is famous for the 1692 witch trials, which has made "Halloween in Salem" a bucket list item. That's good for the Halloween-themed businesses, which have taken over downtown. Not so good for locals wanting to pick up groceries or do early voting at the City Hall Annex. And certainly not good for an understanding of the tragedy behind the merrymaking.
Published
October 30, 2022

Elliott Epstein: The word ‘AND’ can be a powerful uniter in divisive times

The solutions to most problems lies not in a binary choice but in a fusion of divergent views.
Published
October 30, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The caucacity of nope

The word is a new coinage, a portmanteau of “Caucasian” and “audacity” denoting a brand of white arrogance and entitlement that has become tiresomely familiar in recent years. It often plays out in episodes — sometimes fatal — wherein some white person takes it upon themselves to police people of color who are just trying to live their lives.
Published
October 30, 2022

Rich Lowry: Diplomacy in Ukraine shouldn’t be politically incorrect

Although it's possible that the Russia war machine, if it can be called that, simply collapses in Ukraine, it is more likely that war will end in some messy compromise involving a negotiated settlement. Acknowledging this — and that the continuation of the conflict is a humanitarian catastrophe with enormous costs for the West and the world — shouldn't be a quasi-thought crime.
Published
October 28, 2022

Rich Lowry: Great art is not an enemy of the climate

The activists are quite pleased with the attention they are getting. It's not true, though, that all publicity is good publicity. What they are really putting on display is their own recklessness and fanaticism.

Published
October 28, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: We strive toward enlightenment … and language follows suit

Intolerance grows bolder and more unashamed than it’s been in generations, a corrosive eating through bonds of national affiliation — and the right responds with loud silence. Meantime, luminaries of the left take their own to task for cluttering the language with the jargon of inclusivity.
Published
October 27, 2022

Froma Harrop: Contrary to rumors, Democrats are better at the economy

No one is saying that the economy is swell or denying that the economic trends hurt some more than others. It's only to note that contrary to the common impression, Democrats traditionally oversee stronger economies than Republicans do. Just look at the numbers.
Published
October 26, 2022

Cal Thomas: Trump: You’re not a dictator

Donald Trump should not be able to anoint himself as the only Republican presidential candidate in 2024. Let him compete like everyone else, and let the voters decide.
Published
October 24, 2022

We need to build a better flu shot

For now, with CDC data showing flu cases in the U.S. are already ticking upward, everyone should consider getting the shots we already have. They might not be perfect, but they work well enough to save many lives.
Published
October 24, 2022

Race, class and gender shape how we see age and childhood

If we want to see children as children, and make judgments about their needs and their agency, we must do so in a way that challenges, rather than reaffirms, the systems of power that have created an unequal concept of childhood throughout our history.

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