Opinion · 118th Congress
Is the American dream for everyone? Just ask Ilhan Omar
House of Representatives should be Exhibit No. 1 in the resilience of the American dream, the tale of someone starting out with little who has risen to the top.
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Opinion · 117th Congress
The fight over faith in politics: Which faith? Whose values?
Senate with Democrat Cheri Beasley, had a Day 1 conflict — Donald Trump’s Friday rally in Wilmington, N.C.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Can we just leave God out of it?
Lindsey Graham asked me to rate mine on a scale of 1 to 10, as he did Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, I would have to, as she did, refuse.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The brief, shining moment of national unity after 9/11
Six months after the vaccines became widely available, America is recording roughly 1 million new coronavirus cases each week.
Opinion · 117th Congress
When eminently qualified Black women get smeared (or every day that ends in ‘y’)
Garland has announced that the DOJ is reinstating consent decrees to reign in rogue police departments and going after white supremacists that Trump’s own FBI director deemed the No. 1 domestic terror
Opinion · 117th Congress
The risks of a fragile majority
Democrats are pushing bills, HR 1 and S 1, that are antithetical to free and fair elections, not to mention First Amendment rights.
Opinion · 116th Congress
A country in a whole lot of trouble
[jwp-video n=”1″] The Next America Many have offered explanations, but I’m sticking with what Paul Taylor wrote in his revised (2016) paperback edition of “The Next America: Boomers, Millennials
Opinion · 116th Congress
Cory Booker bows out, Ben Carson backs off fair housing and issues of race recede in America
His administration has appointed nearly 1 in 4 of the nation’s federal appeals court judges and 1 in 7 of its district court judges, an NPR report last year found.
Opinion · 116th Congress
In a fractious holiday season, are there glimmers of hope?
[jwp-video n=”1″] What once was an innocuous and inclusive way to offer good wishes to those of any or no faith during this time of year has become a litmus test for a subset of militant believers
Opinion · 116th Congress
Voting rights, a partisan issue? Yes, Republicans have fallen that far
[jwp-video n=”1″] The more things change Many of those states where poll taxes and literacy tests once ruled found ever more imaginative ways to restrict the vote that civil rights pioneers such
Opinion · 116th Congress
Bloomberg, Biden, Buttigieg and the bunch apologize. Should black voters listen, forgive and vote?
[jwp-video n=”1″] While former Vice President Joe Biden has defended what he has characterized as some good outcomes of a 1994 crime bill that he helped shape, he has also accepted responsibility
Opinion · 116th Congress
Can church ever be separate from state at a Franklin Graham rally?
[jwp-video n=”1″] ‘A great opportunity’ When the Democratic National Convention hit Charlotte in 2012, Graham said he invited the delegates to tour the Billy Graham Library, and he promised he
Opinion · 116th Congress
Biden and Beto are like night and day — except when they’re potato-potahto
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Opinion · 116th Congress
An American credo: Justice for some, especially the four-legged
The report in The New York Times that he managed to lose more than $1 billion and avoid paying taxes, unlike the rest of us, from 1985 to 1994, shows he believes that hewing close to the rules — and the
Opinion · 116th Congress
For serious primary voters, the parade of Democratic candidates is no joke
Beto O’Rourke is running for president, here are some congressional basics [jwp-video n=”1″] Her fellow student Anna Coopersmith, 19, said it was important for young people to become “active
Opinion · 116th Congress
If Trump won’t fight white supremacist terrorists, these people will
Trump: McCain got the funeral he wanted, and I ‘didn’t get a thank you’ [jwp-video n=”1″] In a White House Rose Garden press conference this week, it was a mutual admiration society between
Opinion · 116th Congress
How Ralph Northam is spending his Black History Month
Ilhan Omar to resign [jwp-video n=”1″] The personal and public kindnesses of Northam through high school and then college at Virginia Military Institute stood out for many who spoke with reporters
Opinion · 116th Congress
A Kamala Harris candidacy is a test, and not just for the candidate
Also watch: ‘They’ve become radicalized’ — Watch Trump’s response to Pelosi’s SOTU disinvite [jwp-video n=”1″] A matter of identity Lawyer Harris has received some attention for her questioning