MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- Derek Culver attempted 14 free throws Tuesday night. TCU — and we’re talking the entire team here — attempted 17. That’s the Culver effect, if you will, and it was in full force, as the 10th-ranked Mountaineers fended off the Horned Frogs, 74-66, to end a ...
by David Zurawik I have watched more cable news in the last six weeks than I have in any other comparable period in my career. Every weekday starting Jan. 6, the day the Capitol was attacked, I woke up to “New Day” on CNN and went to bed after Brian Williams signed off on MSNBC’s “The 11th Hour.” I also watched C-SPAN, Fox News, Newsmax and One America News Network. After watching the acquittal of President Donald Trump on Saturday, I did some self-analysis that included asking myself what, if anything, I learned from all my time spent in front of the screen since ...
by Rekha Basu Five years ago, my late friend Casey Gradischnig approached me with an unlikely invitation: To join him in the public areas of women’s bathrooms around Des Moines, Iowa, to see how the other patrons reacted to the presence of a 6-foot, 218-pound bearded dude with a deep voice. This wasn’t some creepy joke or attempt to scare unsuspecting bathroom-goers, though we feared that might happen. Our goal was to test out how North Carolina’s then-new bathroom law, the one requiring everyone to use the bathroom matching their sex at birth, might look in practice in ...
George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin on a Saturday night in 2013. The next morning, I went to church wearing a hoodie. This was mid-July, hardly hoodie weather. But other brothers showed up similarly attired, including our pastor. This gesture — an expression of solidarity and raw pain — was no surprise. Indeed, I’d wager it was repeated in many Black churches — and almost no white ones. And that, I think, speaks to a central thesis of “The Black Church,” a documentary that premiered Tuesday on PBS. Namely, that when Black people and white ...
by Karthick Ramakrishnan and Allan Colbern On Feb. 4, Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., introduced the Dream Act, co-sponsored by Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., which would grant legalization and eventual citizenship to an estimated 2 million immigrants without papers, who were brought to the United States as children. Even though such has remained highly popular among voters since former Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, introduced it in 2001, critics have often dismissed it as a piecemeal effort that is inferior to comprehensive immigration reform. Critics from the right have often ...
The people who hand out Emmy Awards should ask New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to return the one they gave him. Cuomo received an Emmy for what they called his “masterful” COVID-19 press briefings. The media lauded those performances, extolling his honesty and transparency. It now turns out he was as honest as many other politicians and as transparent as a brick. The New York Post, which increasingly practices journalism that should shame the major media, reported last week that a Cuomo aide, Melissa DeRosa, privately apologized to Democratic legislators (but not Republicans) for ...
