Leonard Pitts – Page 5

Radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh, shown here in 2010, recently said liberals are trying to "redefine normalcy."

Rush Limbaugh, you are not normal

May 11, 2019 at 2:23 a.m.

I am not normal. This, I learned from a news story 35 years ago. The details have faded with the passage of time, but the gist of it remains clear....

Some veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder find marijuana to help them cope with the terrors, but they risk getting arrested for it.

Marijuana laws put veterans with PTSD in a bad spot

May 11, 2019 at 2:22 a.m.

Before he tried marijuana, he thought of trying suicide. Heavy drinking hadn't helped. Nor had various pills prescribed by Veterans Affairs doctors. He was still angry, still depressed, still could...

The moral crime of relying on GoFundMe for health care

May 11, 2019 at 2:21 a.m.

Luis Lang would like you to send him some money. He has taken to GoFundMe, the crowdfunding website, trying to raise $30,000. Lang, who is 49 and lives in Fort...

2014, the year of no ideas

May 11, 2019 at 1:55 a.m.

The first time he said it was 10 years ago. Back then, it seemed a brisk wind in a stuffy room, a reclamation of defining verities somehow lost in the...

Without our memories, what are we?

May 11, 2019 at 2:03 a.m.

It was the summer of 1969 the first time I came to Chicago, two months shy of my 12th birthday. Mom had brought us to visit my father's family, most...

President Barack Obama (R) and British Prime Minister David Cameron pose for a picture with Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt (C) next to US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) during the memorial service of South African former president Nelson Mandela

Selfie at Auschwitz — and why it’s wrong

June 7, 2019 at 2:23 a.m.

In a place haunted by ghosts, on a thoroughfare of the damned, standing upon ground once watered by blood, Breanna Mitchell lifted a camera to take her own picture. She...

Supreme Court hypocrisy in Wheaton College contraceptives case

May 11, 2019 at 1:43 a.m.

It is a case of Supreme hypocrisy. The adjective refers to that nine-person tribunal at the top of the American legal system, the noun to its latest act of judicial...

The high court’s high-handedness

August 25, 2021 at 1:30 a.m.

It is a case of Supreme hypocrisy. The adjective refers to that nine-person tribunal at the top of the American legal system, the noun to its latest act of judicial...

Courageous or spineless? Our actions — or inactions — decide for us

August 25, 2021 at 1:13 a.m.

The psychological explanation for what happened to Catherine Ferreira is neat and tidy and sounds like reason. "The bystander effect," explains Psychology Today on its website, "occurs when the presence...

People arrive to attend the final session of the term at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 in Washington, D.C.

Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby ruling is narrow-minded

June 17, 2018 at 1:31 p.m.

Relax. This is not a slippery slope. So Justices Samuel Alito writing for the majority and Anthony Kennedy writing in concurrence take pains to assure us in the wake of...

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