Opinion Columns
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Look who's sowing division in Washington nowJun 24, 2020 1:00 am - President Donald Trump was the voice of reason in Washington last week as D.C. Democrats were sowing division. Before he signed an executive order on police reform in th...
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Trump and his courtJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - Twice in a week. First, the court holds that you can't discriminate against employees on the basis of sexual orientation. And if that isn't enough, the chief justice goe...
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The structural shortcomings that produce racial inequitiesJun 23, 2020 1:00 am - If the American Dream means anything, it's that the circumstances of a person's birth ought not limit what she or he can achieve in life. Innate characteristics - such a...
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Stones of hope: The pandemic within the pandemicJun 22, 2020 1:00 am - All my life I have watched racism and police brutality toward African-Americans broadcast on television nightly news. As a child in the early '60s I remember seeing dog...
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A cry for help, but what kind of help?Jun 20, 2020 1:00 am - In a recent column, I averred that the George Floyd death and protests-in-reaction represented a classic case of the powerful "us versus them" syndrome that is baked int...
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Estrich: Gorsuch rises above ideology in gay rights caseJun 19, 2020 1:00 am - Finally, in a landmark decision authored by none other than Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's first Supreme Court appointee, gay, lesbian and transgender pe...
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York: Why do COVID rules make exceptions for protestors?Jun 18, 2020 1:00 am - By Byron York As the country struggles to vanquish coronavirus, Americans are witnessing a bizarre phenomenon in which some authorities tolerate and even praise highly p...
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Schultz: Discovering Mom, the essential workerJun 17, 2020 1:00 am - By Connie Schulz On the eve of my junior year in high school, my mother returned to the job she'd held before she became pregnant at age 19 with me and married my father...
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Williams: How does destruction of black-owned business promote justice?Jun 17, 2020 1:00 am - By Walter E. Williams No decent person can support George Floyd's mistreatment, or the mistreatment of anyone else, at the hands of police officers with the sworn duty t...
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Guest view: Protests are opportunity to make a more just societyJun 16, 2020 1:00 am - By Vaseem Iftekhar The last few months have been the most challenging period in recent American history. The COVID -19 pandemic shook society with more than 100,000 deat...