Eugene Robinson: Trump is wrong about black America (Gazette)
WASHINGTON - Rep. John Lewis is the son of sharecroppers. As a child, he wanted to be a preacher; he practiced by delivering fiery sermons to the family's chickens. But history had other plans for...
View ArticleEmily Tamkin: Ahead of Trump, Canada shakes up its cabinet (Gazette)
By By Emily Tamkin Less than two weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reshuffled his (famously feminist-friendly) cabinet. One major...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: Inauguration consternation (Gazette)
WASHINGTON - Why is this inauguration different from any other? Let's start with the fact that most Americans are not happy that Donald Trump is about to become president. A Washington Post/ABC News...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts Jr.: Trump's inaugural address nothing more than magical...
It was, arguably, the most telling moment of Donald Trump's inauguration speech. People want good schools, neighborhoods and jobs, said the incoming president. "But for too many of our citizens, a...
View ArticleJames Haught: Reflections on religious madness in Ulster
Back in 1986, I went with an editor group to Northern Ireland, where we saw religio-political horror in full bloom. Belfast "interface streets" between Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods had...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: In defense of globalization (Gazette)
DAVOS, Switzerland - The World Economic Forum this year feels like an exercise in ritual self-flagellation, which - as with the old Christian practice of fasting and whipping one's own body - is...
View ArticleGeorge Will: A most dreadful inaugural address
WASHINGTON - Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had...
View ArticleLauren A. Wright: Melania Trump refuses to act like a first lady. Good for her
By By Lauren A. Wright Melania Trump will be the first first lady in more than 200 years not to move into the White House on Inauguration Day. Her decision will cause headaches to her husband's...
View ArticleJoe Nocera: Savvy CEOs are learning how to manage Donald Trump
By By Joe Nocera At first glance, it sure seems as though President-elect Donald Trump is having his way with big corporations. No sooner does he slam a fist on his desk, demanding that companies add...
View ArticlePhilip Kennicott: Cutting the NEA is first move to eliminate a free, open...
By By Philip Kennicott For months now the debate in the arts world has been: Will he really do it? Will Donald Trump be the president who finally gives the right wing what it has so vehemently craved...
View ArticleFroma Harrop: Boycotts are a form of speech (Gazette)
Liberals have organized a campaign to boycott Simon & Schuster over its planned publication of a book by alt-right bad boy Milo Yiannopoulos. Is this boycott a form of censorship? Wendy Kaminer, a...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Progressives, use the march to make a movement (Gazette)
WASHINGTON - It matters that the crowd for the Women's March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Trump's inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great...
View ArticleFroma Harrop: 3 comforting thoughts about Trump (Gazette)
It's still hard wrapping my brain around the words "President Donald Trump" - but there are strategies for moving in that direction. Indeed, I've come up with three comforting thoughts about the next...
View ArticleGarrison Keillor: Republicans, the nation looks to you (Gazette)
What we know so far is that the man is who he is. There is no larger, finer man inside him trying to get out. Everyone who is paying attention knows this. Flags flying at the Capitol, the U.S. Marine...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne: In search of the truth about Trumpism (Gazette)
WASHINGTON -- Is Trumpism a scam? And if so, who is Donald Trump scamming? Or is the country confronting something even more troubling: a president unhinged from any realities that get in the way of...
View ArticleEd Stetzer: Evangelicals, we cannot let alternative facts drive U.S. refugee...
We have quickly seen that candidate Trump and President Trump are one and the same. Last Friday's inaugural address communicated that our new president intended to make good on the statements he made...
View ArticleNoah Smith: Trump's tweets start nationalizing private sector (Gazette)
By By Noah Smith Here's a question: When is a company considered privately owned? There's ownership, and there's control. If a company's shareholders and executives don't have control over the...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts Jr.: The lonely death of Naika Venant
A few thoughts on the lonely death of Naika Venant. As you may have heard, Naika, a Miami teenager, hanged herself in the dark hours of a Sunday morning. She did this live on Facebook. We'll likely...
View ArticleEugene Robinson: Don't dismiss Trump's rants as distractions (Gazette)
WASHINGTON -- Where to begin? That's the daily question for anyone trying to follow the words and deeds of the new administration, which is like drinking from two fire hoses -- one gushing policy, the...
View ArticleFareed Zakaria: Trump is reversing 70 years of US foreign policy (Gazette)
NEW YORK - In his first days in office, Donald Trump has begun to reverse the domestic policies of the previous eight years. But with regard to America's relations with the world, Trump seems far more...
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