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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 ...
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Leonard Pitts: Best thing Trump can do is ignore April 4th
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, March 7, 2018 9:08 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Shouldn’t someone defend Trump?
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Sunday, March 4, 2018 3:13 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Partisans don’t let facts get in the way
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, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:26 pm
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I am a child of domestic violence
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, February 15, 2018 12:00 am
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Unanswered question: ‘Are you going to keep kids safe?’ 7-year-old asks Trump
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, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, February 8, 2018 8:45 am
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Leonard Pitts: Sisters doin’ it for us all
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, January 31, 2018 11:17 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Journalists hold power accountable
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:23 pm
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Leonard Pitts: This is not the book we needed
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, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Tuesday, January 9, 2018 7:44 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Leave Rosa Parks’ legacy alone, Mr. Trump
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, December 6, 2017 8:14 pm
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Journalism is under siege
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, November 30, 2017 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: What does it mean to be a man?
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. ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, November 25, 2017 8:45 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Why are we OK with mass shootings?
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:29 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Men must do better and be better
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Friday, October 27, 2017 11:54 pm
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Leonard Pitts: President Trump as poster boy for privilege
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Saturday, October 21, 2017 3:12 pm
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Leonard Pitts: GOP is finally, sorta, willing to admit the obvious
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:45 pm
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Leonard Pitts: So black athletes have forgotten their place?
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, September 27, 2017 11:05 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Nickel prophets are a dime a dozen
“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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 10:12 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Heartening evidence that people expect more of president
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, August 23, 2017 1:32 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Better than this? We wish
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, August 16, 2017 11:31 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Jeff Flake’s ‘conservative conscience’
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, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, August 9, 2017 6:30 pm
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Leonard Pitts: The NRA’s fight for ‘the white to bear arms’
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:38 pm
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Leonard Pitts: How Americans are born
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, June 28, 2017 9:52 pm
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Leonard Pitts: You can’t take the low road to a high place
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, ...
by Leonard Pitts, Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:00 am
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Leonard Pitts: Like pouring water on concrete
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 11:46 pm
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Leonard Pitts: How much proof do you need?
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, May 17, 2017 10:39 pm
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Leonard Pitts: Ann Coulter was right
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 ...
by Leonard Pitts, Wednesday, May 3, 2017 2:46 pm
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Leonard Pitts: As Hillary said, ‘just listen to what you heard
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 ...