by Dr. Eboo Patel This year’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day comes less than two weeks after a violent white mob, inspired by entrenched racism and dressed up […]
Opinion
Undocumented immigrants deserve pandemic relief, too
by Sarah B. Horton Unlike the first wave of COVID-19 relief, known as the CARES Act, the latest coronavirus relief package signed by the president late last year granted stimulus […]
In honor of a pioneering photographer
DP’s Ron Rittenhouse receives MLK Jr. award West Virginia University’s Center for Black Culture and Research is honoring photographer Ron Rittenhouse as a “pioneer,” because when he first came to […]
Jan. 17 letters to the editor
Help us all: Please get your COVID vaccine The COVID-19 pandemic will not end without people getting the vaccine! This public health crisis will continue unless we all do our […]
McConnell won’t be majority leader. But there’s still plenty he can do to obstruct Biden
by Doyle McManus The Senate elections in Georgia qualified as life-changing news for President-elect Joe Biden, who knew that if the chamber remained in Republican hands his ambitious agenda would […]
After the siege, we need a civics education refresh
by Arne Duncan and April Ryan If the last five years in American politics have taught us one thing, it is that we can all use a refresher course in […]
Democrats, unity and calls for revenge
by Cal Thomas The old saying, “Revenge is a dish best served cold,” is understood to mean it is better to deliver retribution for a perceived or actual injustice after […]
American tumult has global impact
News of Trump-inspired mobs ransacking the U.S. Capitol last week reverberated worldwide, alarming allies and delighting adversaries as it inverted the concept of American exceptionalism. “We currently witness an attack […]
Guest essay: Nation at its best when government serves the people
by JB McCuskey Where do we go from here? Our country is very clearly at a tipping point. The events of the last month have shown that we, in many […]
Can new spymaster turn around CIA?
by Chris Whipple Abused, insulted and threatened for four years by Donald Trump, who once compared the intelligence community to “Nazi Germany,” the Central Intelligence Agency is the institutional version […]
