What if Donald Trump were smart?
What if Donald Trump were smart? It is likely not a question you’ve given a lot of thought. After all, the urgency of our ongoing disaster leaves little time for...
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Mansplaining about idiots back in the day and today
We were such idiots then. That realization is, if you are a guy, an unavoidable hazard of seeing the new movie, "Battle of the Sexes." The film, in which Emma...
Sessions, Pepsi choose to be blind
Yes, that Pepsi ad was an insult. But if you think it was the worst insult Black Lives Matter suffered in recent days, then you weren't paying attention. Not that...
Emanuel’s ‘fetal’ remark misses the point of police accountability
The question was first posed by Juvenal, a Latin poet whose life spanned the first and second centuries: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Translation: "Who watches the watchmen?" The old question...
‘Stuff happens’? Jeb Bush is only half-right
And the Bush family's War on English continues. You are, by now, familiar with the astonishingly tone-deaf response by Jeb Bush, the nation's would-be 45th president, to last week's shooting...
Cops can’t have their own set of rules
What can I do? Not quite six months ago, a reader named Tracy posed that question to me and I, in turn, posed it to you. Tracy, a 55-year-old white...
The Groveland Four, justice denied for 66 years … and counting
It was the road sign that made it real. Josh Venkataraman was returning to the University of Florida, where he is a senior, from Orlando earlier this year when he...
When ‘religious liberty’ is code for intolerance
"To me," she said in a statement, "this has never been a gay or lesbian issue. It is about marriage and God's word. It is a matter of religious liberty."...
Vester Flanagan has made witnesses of us all
"I've seen enough. I don't want to see any more." — Bruce Springsteen, "Cover Me" When terrorists beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and posted video of...
‘All lives matter’ are words of moral cowardice
This is a column about three words of moral cowardice: "All lives matter." Those words have risen as a kind of counter to "Black lives matter," the movement that coalesced...