Leonard Pitts Jr.: The year (bleep) got real

Columns & Analysis

Published
July 30, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: The year (bleep) got real

This is the most important story in the world because it is the world. None of the other things that gobble our attention — Donald Trump, abortion rights, gun violence — matter as much as the inarguable fact that this planet is rapidly growing inhospitable to human life. That grim truth has hit like a hammer in recent days. Now, perhaps, we get to hit back.
Published
July 28, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Let’s talk about the Nazis

The word fascism describes not “mask mandates,” but strongman rule — think Putin, Kim or Castro — in which “Dear Leader” is unbound by such trivialities as the laws, the courts or the ballot. This is what Trump desires to have — and the political right aspires to give him. The rest of us would do well to understand this, given the mortal threat it poses.
Published
July 27, 2022

Cal Thomas: Joe’s dubious oil slick

President Biden's hyperbole when it comes to end-of-the-world prophecies follows many similar predictions that failed to materialize.
Published
July 25, 2022

The solution to U.S. border woes is no secret

The arguments for a more liberal immigration policy are solid. A robust and still growing body of economic research has repeatedly debunked the claim that immigrants take Americans' jobs and cut their wages. It was bogus back in the time of the Braceros.
Published
July 24, 2022

Leonard Pitts Jr.: ‘Massive resistance’ goes both ways

It’s not just a 10-year-old girl fleeing across state lines for an abortion like some perverse new version of the Underground Railroad. It’s the fact that some legislators are pondering laws to criminalize such flights — to restrict women’s right to travel.

Published
July 24, 2022

Cal Thomas: Jill to Joe: It’s over

Biden has served his purpose by keeping Donald Trump from winning a second term and now many Democrats want to discard him like an empty paper bag. At least a paper bag can be recycled. Biden can’t.
Published
July 24, 2022

Rich Lowry: Joe Biden’s bogus climate emergency

The U.S. is a wealthy, innovative and a continental nation where patterns of settlement have vastly changed over time and will continue to do so, regardless of the temperature trends. We will be able to adapt to, and mitigate any harmful effects from, climate change better than any other society in the world.
Published
July 24, 2022

Secret Service watchdog knew in February that texts had been purged

The purged texts of Secret Service agents — some of whom planned President Donald Trump's movements on Jan. 6 and shadowed Trump as he sought to overturn the election results — could shed light on what Trump was planning and saying.
Published
July 23, 2022

Froma Harrop: No woman needs butt surgery

The racial implications of this trend are truly complex. I habitually avoid using the charge of "cultural appropriation" in the belief that culture is not something anyone owns. However, it is undeniable that white people have been able to profit off aspects of Black culture in ways Black people have not been able to. Elvis is Exhibit A. (For more information, see "Elvis," the movie.)
Published
July 23, 2022

John Gendron: In defense of my vision to boost affordable housing

Our vision is to build modest, respectable homes for middle class families that have been priced out of the Auburn housing market. Our plan includes a unique look for each new segment of housing as to blend in with the current neighborhood character. Our objective is to transform an old gravel pit into a great new neighborhood that Auburn can be proud of, and that’s all that we want to accomplish.

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