I listen to real victims of bias all the time. Jussie Smollett is infuriating.
It’s hard enough to get people to believe their stories without celebrities making up hoax crimes.
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Politicians, media use Jussie Smollett while other cases are set aside
It’s easy to lose what’s important with all the panic and intersectional hatred and liberal identity politics gone bad in this story.
Five myths about Valentine’s Day
No, it wasn’t invented by greeting-card companies.
Democrats in 2020 are at risk of turning into Republicans of 2016
2020 candidates are becoming 2016 Republicans, rejecting experts in favor of cranks.
‘We’re nuts!’ isn’t a great pitch for a Green New Deal
Progressives’ plan for energy efficiency is a nice idea, but way too aggressive.
Americans have healthier hearts. We have a healthier budget, too.
Annual outlays of health spending have been way lower than doomsday forecasters anticipated — and the sharpest slowdown has occurred with Medicare.
Green New Deal backers embrace their fantasies
Given that almost everyone running for the Democratic presidential nomination feels obliged to say they’re for it, it’s worth taking somewhat seriously.
Our political center is up for grabs. Trump just made a play for it.
Trump did something he rarely does: work to expand his base. It’s a good start, but wooing persuadable voters takes more than one good speech.
America lets too much young talent go to waste
Stopping the unnecessary waste of poor and minority students’ gifts would be an important step toward restoring the U.S.'s reputation as a land of opportunity.
Trump said ‘compromise,’ but his tone said otherwise
Because our problem lies within, a wall cannot fix it. Only a clearer moral purpose can.
Alaska mines should adopt safer tailings options
DNR could require modeling of various spill sizes at the Donlin Gold mine – for emergency preparedness, if for no other reason. The question is: Will they?
The banality of evil, 2019
When we use language to disguise reality, we move ever closer to the dehumanization of us all.
What the push for legal-until-birth abortion tells us about the abortion debate
Abortion is about avoiding parenthood, not pregnancy.
I’ve been a senator for three weeks. Washington is worse than you’ve heard.
The left’s irrational behavior is what stands in the way of an immigration compromise
Pot trade needs access to banks
Conservatives who dislike costly regulation and progressives who favor state-legalized cannabis ought to be able to agree and fix it.
Abortion maximalists stand on shaky moral ground
Many people have trouble being 100 percent certain that a fertilized egg or a blastocyst is a human being, but vanishingly few of us dispute that a delivered baby outside the womb is a human being.
Five myths about rock-and-roll
No, grunge wasn’t just white guys from Seattle, and the ’27 Club' is smaller than you think
With God on Trump’s side, he can do anything
God works in mysterious ways. But this much isn’t at all mysterious: The president is acting as if he answers to nobody here in the mortal realm.
Schultz is calling Democrats out for how radical their party has become
This is the problem with our politics today. Both sides have decided that the way to win is no longer to persuade those in the middle.
Democrats should stand for democracy in Venezuela - and democratic values in America
The Trump administration is right to put restoring Venezuelan democracy at the center of our approach to this crisis.