Cal Thomas: Tragedy in Charlottesville
In the South during the Jim Crow era, the “one-drop rule,” codified into law, asserted that if a person had just one drop of...
Christine Flowers: Due process on campuses is just as important as protecting victims
I spent the weekend dog-sitting for a very frisky, very robust black Lab named Chance, as in there wasn’t a Chance in hell he...
Cynthia M. Allen: Why you should care about Google’s firing of James Damore
It would be easy to discount Monday’s firing of Google software engineer James Damore as a reasonable response to his authoring and circulating a...
John L. Micek: Americans are proud to be getting dumber
A North Carolina man walks into a popular Washington D.C. pizzeria and opens fire, telling police upon his inevitable arrest that he came to...
Carl P. Leubsdorf: What Nixon and Watergate can teach us about Trump’s travails
As a journalist who lived through the traumas of the Watergate scandal more than four decades ago, I’m often asked to list the parallels...
Catherine Rampell: Feel-good ideas need hardheaded examination
WASHINGTON — Extracting more money from evil, exploitative capitalists has become a rallying cry for much of the grass-roots left. In the meantime, though,...
Cal Thomas: Sanctuary cities vs. hideouts
In biblical times, a sanctuary city was a place where someone who had committed unintentional manslaughter could find refuge from “the avenger of blood.”...
Ruben Navarrette: Affirmative action has overstayed its welcome
SAN DIEGO — Color me surprised. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and I finally agree on something, albeit with radically different motives. It’s time to...
John M. Crisp: Citizens respond to the malady in the White House
Two years ago, my former governor, Rick Perry, called Donald Trump’s candidacy for the presidency a “cancer.” But this was during the primary season,...
George Will: The GOP’s Southern Gothic page-turner
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Southern Gothic is a literary genre and, occasionally, a political style that, like the genre, blends strangeness and irony. Consider the...
