There are a few things you should be asking yourself right about now. Meaning you students who find yourselves living in places where self-appointed guardians of public morality have been […]
Author: Leonard Pitts Jr.
America in winter
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been […]
‘Dare we hope?’ Preserving rights takes work
“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 right to abortion […]
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 year a theme […]
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 we watch your […]
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 opening statement at […]
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 than a century, […]
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. Kelly got 30. […]
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, what made the […]
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 in the head […]
