Column: ‘Defund the police’ is a political dud, but now what?
Recent elections show "Defund the police" to be what I expected all along, a slogan better suited for the streets than the ballot box. That's just as well. Giving the...
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Column: For Democrats, being ‘anti-Trump’ isn’t enough
Often a master of metaphors, progressive CNN commentator Van Jones almost outdid himself by calling Glenn Youngkin's victory in Virginia's governor's race "the delta variant of Trumpism." Almost. Jones' novel...
Column: ‘Wokespeak’ is changing faster than I can keep up
I remember when we were "colored." As in the NAACP, originally the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then we became "Negroes," as in "A group of Negroes...
Column: Even the Jan. 6 mob defendants deserve proper treatment
Jail is not a pleasant place to live. That's pretty obvious to most folks. But that reality appears to have come as a revelation to some of the Jan. 6...
Column: Republicans happily watch Democrats destroy themselves
A couple of recent studies by experts who examine what makes us Americans tick politically have found that conservatives are happier than liberals. My response, why shouldn't they be? More...
Column: Concerned parents aren’t ‘domestic terrorists,’ except when they behave like one
I don't recall much about the first local school board meeting that I ever covered, long, long ago, except the overflow crowd of local citizens who made it hard to...
Column: Colin Powell, we’ll miss you in the ‘sensible center’
When I heard that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had died, my mind raced back to the autumn of 2004, when I asked him whether he had given a...
Column: ‘Squid Game’? ‘Parasite’? Here’s why they find a global audience
Since pop culture tells us a lot about our national state of mind, I have been intrigued by the internet buzz that has surrounded "Squid Game," a South Korean survivalist...
Column: Dave Chappelle’s pushback against cancel culture chills the joke
Dave Chappelle is in hot water again, testing the boundaries of public sensibilities so you don't have to. Netflix is defending his latest comedy special, "The Closer." Critics, particularly in...
Column: Crime in the tweets. Can social networks make gangs even more angry?
It was a terrible week for Facebook. First, an investigative series by The Wall Street Journal reported that for years Facebook has been studying how Instagram, which it owns, has...