Leonard Pitts Jr.: Once upon a time, America was brave

Columns & Analysis

Published
October 18, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Once upon a time, America was brave

History is written by the winners ... so there is always the chance, if intolerance wins, if ignorance wins, if election denial wins and they shape the future in their image, our children will inherit an America transactional, small-minded and mean, and never know that once upon a time, America stood — or at least, sometimes tried to stand — for something loftier.
Published
October 17, 2022

LIV Golf is changing the role of golf in ‘sportswashing’

Due to the quiet lobbying at the Pinehurst tournaments, Rafael Trujillo enjoyed a favorable reputation in the United States into the late 1950s. Considering the conversations occupying the long pauses between swings on the course, golf proved the perfect venue to lobby those directing U.S. foreign policy without the public learning of the public relations campaign.
Published
October 17, 2022

The global energy order is unraveling fast: Welcome to World War E

The Ukraine crisis is part of a broader unraveling, with the mutual need that ties energy producers and consumers together giving way to cruder contests over who needs who.
Published
October 16, 2022

Cal Thomas: Christian nationalism

A re-awakened America won't come through politics and government, no matter how strongly Christian nationalists wish for it.
Published
October 16, 2022

Elliott Epstein: We need to stop people from rebuilding in areas that will be devastated again

I find it astonishing that so few Floridians have learned any lessons from having placed themselves in harm’s way.

Published
October 16, 2022

Austin Bay: The Iguala Massacre and cover-up expose Mexico’s Deep State corruption

Sept. 26 was the eighth anniversary of the Iguala Massacre (sometimes called the Ayotzinapa Teachers College massacre). The Iguala Massacre is a vicious crime become political cause that exemplifies the evil of "impunity."
Published
October 16, 2022

Froma Harrop: Musk owns a lot but not Twitter’s followers

What Elon Musk seems to miss, apart from a sense of civic responsibility, is this: No one has to be on Twitter. Letting Trump and his thuggy minions back on would ruin the neighborhood. Twitter would turn into a "right-wing cesspool," as a writer for Vanity Fair put it.
Published
October 16, 2022

Rich Lowry: Civil war is not coming

It is certainly true that our political debate is fevered and apocalyptic. It may be the case that we will experience more political violence, but it would hardly be unprecedented in our national life and wouldn't constitute anything remotely like a civil war.
Published
October 15, 2022

Bob Gardner: Edward Little Class of ’51 honors legendary music director with lasting tribute

The trustees of the Donald M. Gay Scholarship Fund are proud to have a role in supporting the performing arts center and the wonderful experiences it will bring to future students and to the greater Lewiston-Auburn community.
Published
October 15, 2022

Rich Lowry: High-speed rail is a progressive fantasy

California hasn't created a railroad to the future but a warning to the rest of the country to avoid its delusion and folly.

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