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The Toronto Blue Jays play the Kansas City Royals at Rogers Centre on July 16, 2022, in Toronto. Some Royals players could not travel to Canada for the series because they were not vaccinated against COVID-19.

Jonathan Zimmerman: Baseball, vaccines and the triumph of selfishness

July 18, 2022 at 4:31 p.m.

In April 1909, New York Highlanders first baseman Hal Chase was hospitalized with smallpox near the team's spring training site in Georgia. The rest of the squad — which would...

A woman wears an anti-gun T-shirt outside the Supreme Court Building following the court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in Washington on June 24, 2022. The court also recently struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public.

Jonathan Zimmerman: The Supreme Court gets an F in history for its rationales in abortion, gun rulings

June 29, 2022 at 12:06 p.m.

It happens at least once a semester. My students and I will be discussing a contested political issue — say, affirmative action or capital punishment — and someone will ask,...

Gabriella Uriegas, a soccer teammate of Tess Mata who died in the shooting, cries while her mother, Geneva Uriegas, holds her as they visit a memorial outside the Uvalde County Courthouse in Texas on May 26, 2022.

Jonathan Zimmerman: How the GOP gave up on American exceptionalism

June 1, 2022 at 11:19 a.m.

Is this a great country, or what? That's been a 50-year refrain of Republicans, who have made "American exceptionalism" into a kind of emblem for their party. America is a...

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown greets family members of victims of the Tops grocery store shooting following an event with President Joe Biden on May 17, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. "The social media companies need to be held accountable," Brown said.

Jonathan Zimmerman: Fight hate with speech, not with censorship

May 18, 2022 at 1:11 p.m.

The man accused of killing 10 African Americans at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket was virulently antisemitic as well as a racist. Indeed, he blamed Jews for the so-called "great...

Philadelphia Police Academy graduates take the oath to become officers on April 8, 2022.

Jonathan Zimmerman: Progressives have turned a deaf ear to minority communities’ calls for more police

April 12, 2022 at 1:17 p.m.

I live in Philadelphia, a hugely unequal city. Our access to education, transportation and health care — and the quality of these services — often depends on our ZIP codes....

The Georgetown Day School in Washington on March 24, 2022.

Jonathan Zimmerman: What colleges can learn from Georgetown Day School’s embrace of multiple viewpoints

March 29, 2022 at 11:49 a.m.

Let's start with the easy part. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was wrong to harangue Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing about books allegedly used to teach...

Judge J. Michelle Childs, who was nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court, during her nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 16, 2010.

Op-ed: Why Biden should nominate J. Michelle Childs to be our next Supreme Court justice

January 31, 2022 at 7:22 a.m.

Leondra Kruger is the daughter of two doctors. She graduated from Harvard College and attended law school at Yale University. Ketanji Brown Jackson's father was a lawyer, and her mother...

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on June 26, 2018, in Washington, D.C., as the court issued a 5-4 ruling upholding then President Donald Trump's policy imposing limits on travel from several primarily Muslim nations.

Op-ed: Islamophobia flared after 9/11 and still rages. But the good news: Muslim Americans feel embraced by many.

September 16, 2021 at 4:40 p.m.

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, America witnessed a spike of anti-Islamic bigotry and hate. Denounced as security threats by some politicians and media outlets, Muslims were assaulted and...

Tarps cover the bases of Weber Arch at Northwestern University in Evanston after it was vandalized by anti-police protesters on Oct. 20, 2020.

Op-ed: Who condemned the summer looting? Our university presidents mostly failed us.

January 22, 2021 at 12:52 p.m.

Hey, check out those hypocritical Democrats! They can't stop talking about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. But last summer, as Black Lives Matter protesters burned our cities,...

Commentary: Why efforts to censor Abigail Shrier’s book will backfire and hurt transgender people

November 23, 2020 at 5:50 p.m.

In October 1954, the U.S. post office in Los Angeles seized copies of a gay-themed magazine and accused its editors of violating the federal law that barred sending "obscene, lewd,...

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