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A man bends over a memorial at Veteran's Park on Nov. 23, 2021, for the victims of Sunday's deadly Christmas parade crash in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Column: Waukesha tragedy calls for serious bail reform, not finger-pointing

November 24, 2021 at 9:27 a.m.

No, there is absolutely nothing funny about the horrors that abruptly ended Waukesha's Christmas parade. But Mary Lemanski gave it a try, for which she has received more brickbats than...

Supporters pray as then-President Donald Trump speaks during an "Evangelicals for Trump" event at the King Jesus International Ministry on Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami.

Column: If ‘woke’ is a religion, why not ‘Trumpism’?

November 19, 2021 at 4:43 p.m.

Americans don't always limit their religions to the most holy of beliefs. Pollsters who keep track of such matters report that the numbers of religiously unaffiliated — describing their religious...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, holds hands with the father and mother of Ahmaud Arbery, Marcus Arbery and Wanda Cooper-Jones, during the trial of Greg McMichael and his son, Travis, and neighbor William Bryan at the Glynn County Courthouse on Nov. 15, 2021, in Brunswick, Georgia.

Column: Two racially inflamed murder cases challenge our sense of racial progress

November 16, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

Trials are a contest between dueling narratives. In the two racially charged murder trials that have gripped the nation in Wisconsin and Georgia, the narratives also stage a contest between...

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill on Oct. 27, 2021. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, listens at left.

Column: Sen. Josh Hawley’s blame campaign. Much ado about us dudes

November 12, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

Too many men are stuck in a cycle of "idleness and pornography and video games." So says Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, one of the Grand Old Party's brightest right-wing...

A "Defund the police" slogan is painted on a window in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood in August 2020.

Column: ‘Defund the police’ is a political dud, but now what?

November 9, 2021 at 5:40 p.m.

Recent elections show "Defund the police" to be what I expected all along, a slogan better suited for the streets than the ballot box. That's just as well. Giving the...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe at an election night party in McLean, Virginia, on Nov. 2, 2021.

Column: For Democrats, being ‘anti-Trump’ isn’t enough

November 5, 2021 at 3:57 p.m.

Often a master of metaphors, progressive CNN commentator Van Jones almost outdid himself by calling Glenn Youngkin's victory in Virginia's governor's race "the delta variant of Trumpism." Almost. Jones' novel...

Comedian Dave Chappelle at the Kennedy Center to receive the Mark Twain Award for American Humor in Washington in 2019. Chappelle has come under fire recently for his latest Netflix special, which includes jokes about transgender people.

Column: ‘Wokespeak’ is changing faster than I can keep up

November 2, 2021 at 5:32 p.m.

I remember when we were "colored." As in the NAACP, originally the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Then we became "Negroes," as in "A group of Negroes...

Supporters loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A federal judge held the director of the District of Columbia's Department of Corrections and the warden of the city's jail in contempt of court on Oct. 13, and asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the civil rights of inmates are being abused.

Column: Even the Jan. 6 mob defendants deserve proper treatment

October 29, 2021 at 4:02 p.m.

Jail is not a pleasant place to live. That's pretty obvious to most folks. But that reality appears to have come as a revelation to some of the Jan. 6...

Joe Manchin, D- W.Va., speaks at a news conference outside his office on Capitol Hill on Oct. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Column: Republicans happily watch Democrats destroy themselves

October 26, 2021 at 4:15 p.m.

A couple of recent studies by experts who examine what makes us Americans tick politically have found that conservatives are happier than liberals. My response, why shouldn't they be? More...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies at a House Judiciary Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 21, 2021 in Washington. Garland fielded many questions regarding first amendment issues related to school board meetings and efforts to prevent violence against public officials. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Column: Concerned parents aren’t ‘domestic terrorists,’ except when they behave like one

October 22, 2021 at 3:16 p.m.

I don't recall much about the first local school board meeting that I ever covered, long, long ago, except the overflow crowd of local citizens who made it hard to...

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