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Leonard Pitts: How do we deal with facts-challenged people?
So what should we say to Robert Ussery? He’s an antagonist in a story of breathtaking emotional cruelty that unfolded Monday. It seems Pastor Frank ...
So what should we say to Robert Ussery? He’s an antagonist in a story of breathtaking emotional cruelty that unfolded Monday. It seems Pastor Frank ...
I am not looking forward to April 4. In fact, I’ve been dreading it for months. April 4 is, of course, the 50th anniversary of ...
Shouldn’t there be somebody to defend Donald Trump? Opinion page editors have been wrestling that question for over a year. A good opinion editor, you ...
This is a column about 42 percent of Republicans. It is also a column about trust. A few days ago in Miami, the Knight Foundation, ...
I am a child of domestic violence. As a boy, I couldn’t fall asleep until I heard my father return from his nocturnal ramblings. I’d ...
This is about a question Donald Trump failed to answer. Granted, there are a lot of those, but this was a particularly tough one. Indeed, ...
Sisters are doin’ it for themselves. That, you may remember, was the title of a hit 1985 pop song. But 33 years later, pop has ...
I was wrong. Years ago, people used to ask me what journalists should do to combat the nation’s drift toward “factish” and “truthy” logic. What ...
America desperately wanted this book. America desperately needed it, too. That’s why “Fire and Fury,” by journalist Michael Wolff, which purported to be a fly-on-the-wall, ...
Here comes the most meaningless sentence you’ll read today: Last week, Donald Trump paid tribute to Rosa Parks. It’s meaningless because Trump obviously has no ...
Go ahead and laugh. It is funny, after all. Indeed, it recalls one of those old Warner Bros. cartoons where Wile E. Coyote gets blown ...
So I guess you can take men off the endangered species list. It wasn’t that long ago we were hearing that men were in trouble. ...
I hate mass shootings. Everybody hates them, of course: innocent death, fathers, fiances, best friends, and sons snatched violently away, sudden carnage crashing ordinary days. But ...
How many is this now? I’ve lost track of the number of prominent men who’ve been accused of sexual harassment in the weeks since The ...
Perhaps you remember Barack Obama’s so-called “patriotism problem.” It was that some people said he didn’t have any. The claim was based on the flimsiest ...
Yes, he’s childish and incompetent. Is that really news by now? But of course, it wasn’t that assessment of Failed President Trump that made jaws ...
Dear black people: I guess we’ve messed up again. Seems like we’re never going to learn how to properly protest, no matter how hard conservatives ...
“Be still and know that I am God.” — Psalms 46:10 It’s an admonition some of us struggle to obey. Indeed, some of God’s self-appointed ...
A remarkable thing happened last week. You might have missed it, because while it happened in plain sight, it also happened in increments. You had to ...
It has become the go-to cliche for moments like this. We whisper it when someone breaks the mosque window or scrawls hatred on the synagogue ...
The book pulls no punches. It sharply condemns conservatism for its role in a “culture of vicious dehumanization,” not to mention its sins of incoherence, ...
It began in April. That’s when there appeared on YouTube an NRA recruitment video that raised eyebrows across the political spectrum. Speaking through a jaw ...
He called it a lesson in “How Republicans are born.” Grover Norquist, the anti-tax crusader, was on Twitter Sunday, recounting how his 8-year-old “has been ...
The other day, a Muslim saved a terrorist. It happened just after midnight Monday in London. The terrorist, according to authorities, was Darren Osborne, 47, ...
I call it pouring water on concrete. You make a splash, but nothing sinks in. That’s what it has felt like lately arguing via tweet and ...
Dear Republicans: So how much more will it take? What else do you need to see? Seriously: What Rubicon must yet be crossed, what crisis ...
Look, I’m the guy who once called her a “viperous harridan,” OK? That was 11 years ago in this space. I described her as such ...
In some ways, it was the most memorable line of Monday’s presidential debate. It came after Donald Trump had stumbled through a non-responsive response to ...
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The Sunday college basketball slate includes one game with a Big South team in play. That matchup? The…
The Sunday college basketball schedule includes four games featuring a Sun Belt team in play. Among those games…