“Dividing voters based on race is wrong and unconstitutional.” Those are the words of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, according to a statement he issued concerning his effort to terminate a federal judicial redistricting agreement established more than 35 years…
Understanding the blue tsunami of the midterms
America did not simply vote Tuesday night. America issued a warning, delivered a reckoning and reminded the political establishment that democracy still has a pulse. What began as a midterm election became something far greater: an extraordinary rejection of political…
Pardons, pedophiles, predators and power
There are moments in American history when the presidency reveals more than the character of one president. It reveals something about us. Donald Trump’s second presidency should force America — especially Americans who describe themselves as Christians, defenders of police,…
Rest in love, Dolores Huerta
America lost more than a labor leader today. We lost a moral giant, a fearless organizer and one of the most influential Latina women of the 20th and 21st centuries. Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta died at her Bakersfield, Calif., home…
The dangerous American rebranding of authoritarian power
On Oct. 21, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff sat across from Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg after Russia released 74-year-old American teacher Stephen Hubbard, whom the United States had designated as wrongfully detained. Witkoff thanked Putin and then…
Black, female, Republican and still not welcome
Imagine driving two hours to support a political candidate, spending your own money, using your own platform and bringing more than 200,000 social media followers into the Republican political conversation — only to be escorted out like an unwanted stranger….
Is Trump making Russia great again?
What happens when the president of the United States appears more willing to offer economic incentives to an invading nation than to guarantee the security of the nation being invaded? For nearly five years, the world has watched Russia wage…
122 babies: The USS Lincoln
One hundred twenty-two babies. One hundred twenty-two new beginnings. And fathers who spent months defending a nation while missing the first moments of their children’s lives. On Oct. 8, 2026, the USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego after 321…
What should we make of Dennis Hastert’s life?
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert died over the weekend at age 84. His death closes the life of a man who occupied one of the most powerful offices in the United States and whose public reputation collided catastrophically with…
What’s this all about, Pete?
America may be entering one of the strangest intersections of warfare, technology, politics, masculinity and religion in modern history. On Sept. 30, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon will establish an Office of Religious Affairs reporting directly to him….
What you didn’t know about the Little Rock Nine
America knows the photograph: Nine courageous teenagers walked into Little Rock Central High School while an angry white segregationist resistance made Arkansas the center of an international civil rights crisis. America knows Daisy Bates. We know Gov. Orval Fabaus. We…
What made America great after 9/11
Twenty-five years ago, America was attacked. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed after al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, striking the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pa. America awakened the next morning…