.Columns & Editorials

In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.  There are good reasons for casting the conflict in these terms, but in our...

A proposed Florida law prohibits any teacher in the state from providing information about the full brutality of our country’s history of black chattel slavery; Jim Crow apartheid that followed; along with serial atrocities, including the terrorism...

There are many important questions and conversations emerging about the current war in Ukraine. People want to know who is to blame, what is the cause of this mess and what will be the way out.  The fact...

Somewhere out there in the geopolitical wilderness of Eastern Europe, two powerful beasts stalk each other. One of them is good. One of them is evil. The future of all life on this planet is at stake. This...

Are free and fair elections too much to ask for? Thanks to partisan gerrymandering—and its ugly cousin, prison gerrymandering—the answer is often “yes.” High-stakes redistricting battles now underway will help determine next year’s midterm elections. In a perfect...

Within the next few months the Supreme Court will decide on Mississippi’s challenge to Roe v. Wade. No Court in the past 50 years would have taken this case, but the present conservative Court, bolstered by a...

The winter of 2022 may prove to be a winter none of us ever forget. It’s the Omicron winter. Stress levels are at an all-time high as we enter it. Too many people living quarantined in too-small...