In Africa, Black Lives DON’T Matter

We are probably few in number, but for those of us Africans, of all races, who have long been hoping something would change for the better, the future may never have looked ...

Did the GOP Just Dodge a Bullet?

When he took the floor of the Senate to reject the Democrats' Jan. 6 Commission, Mitch McConnell may have salvaged his party's chances to recapture the House in 2022. For that ...

Are the Halcyon Days Over for Joe Biden?

On taking the oath of office, Jan. 20, Joe Biden may not have realized it, but history had dealt him a pair of aces. The COVID-19 pandemic had reached its apex, infecting a ...

Has the Backlash Arrived for Police-Bashing?

Within hours of Saturday's shooting in Times Square where three bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl, were wounded, the two leading candidates to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio ...

Out, Damned Symonds!

Like Macbeth in Dunsinane, British prime minister Boris Johnson is creating his enemies by ending their careers. Actually, the two share much in common, both having changed their ...

SEN. TIM SCOTT: DRIVING THE WRONG WAY WHILE BLACK

ANSWER: "Sen. Tim Scott, Republican from South Carolina." QUESTION: "Who will loads of Republicans support for president in 2024?" I know this because ... I am Carnac the ...

“At First Quietly, Then Much Less Quietly”

The Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), a branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, was launched in 1971 as the Defense Race Relations Institute (it changed to ...

Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’

"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country." So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden's address to Congress. Asked the next ...

Biden Bets the Farm — to ‘Change the World’

Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen. After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in ...

Ann’s Plan to End Police Shootings

To use the cliche of the moment, these are deeply polarized times. But there are some issues so urgent that we must find common ground. At the top of that list is preventing ...

The Ghetto’s on Fire—Let It Burn

Last week marked the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a sacred moment in Jewish history. The anniversary brought the expected flood of commentaries and social media ...

Washington D.C.

The DC Statehood Power Grab

"How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?" asked President Abraham Lincoln, who answered his own question: "Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a ...

Thanks, Jurors! You’re Safe Now. We Aren’t

To watch the hours of celebratory fist-pumping from government officials and black activists after the guilty verdicts against police officer Derek Chauvin this week, you'd think ...

Joe Biden’s Long Hot Spring

When Joe Biden was 21, liberalism peaked on Nov. 3, 1964, as Lyndon Baines Johnson won over 61 percent of the popular vote and 486 of the 535 electoral votes. On his coattails, ...

Who Will Be the Next ‘America First’ President?

When President Joe Biden announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, GOP hawks like Sens. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham ...

Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too

What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, trucks and troops have been moving by road and rail ever closer to Ukraine, and ...


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