“Dare we hope?” That was the rather plaintive response of a man on Twitter when news broke that Kansas voters had rejected an attempt to remove the […]
Author: Leonard Pitts Jr.
The year (bleep) got real
“There’s a choice we’re making. We’re saving our own lives.” — from “We Are The World” Yes, this is early. That ritual where the columnist assigns the […]
The rule of law could use a win
Dear Attorney General Merrick Garland: You are doubtless familiar with the old adage that, “The wheels of justice may grind slow, but they grind exceedingly fine.” As […]
Trump ‘fell under malignant influence’?
“Donald was enabled from the beginning …” — Mary L. Trump, “Too Much and Never Enough” Liz Cheney sure called that one. Last Tuesday afternoon, in her […]
Fascism on our doorstep
Our story so far … The Extreme Court just gutted reproductive rights, shredded a New York law that helped keep guns out of public spaces for more […]
Lack of justice just a different kind of rape
So what does all this tell us about justice? “All this” meaning the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell got 20 years on Tuesday and the next day, R. […]
Progress has lurched backward
This is not just another setback. Anyone who’s lived long enough has seen the Supreme Court issue a ruling they didn’t like. This is not that. No, […]
No reason brown girls can’t save the world
She’s not exactly starving for affirmation. To the contrary, Malala Yousafzai is a global icon. Since 2012 when, as a 15-year-old Pakistani girl, she survived being shot […]
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election!
It comes at the end. After his supporters march on the U.S. Capitol chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!” after they breach police barricades, after they smash windows […]
‘Real’ conservatives are about 30 years too late
Where were you when we needed you? That’s my blanket response to a persistent trickle of emails from readers who keep asking me to, in effect, stop […]
