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My hero for the week is yet another federal district judge, who is holding the line on the worst of the Trump administration's excesses. Richard Leon is a former President George W. Bush appointee to the District Court for the District of Columbia. On Thursday, he issued an order at least temporarily blocking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...Read more

Ten years ago, the shuttering of The Tampa Tribune shocked Media World. Last month, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette disappeared, turning western Pennsylvania into a news desert. Now The Washington Post is entering a death spiral. Hell, D.C. never got over the Washington Star.

We remember what we lost recently, not what we lost in total. When Jeff ...Read more

Chickasaw Park is special. It was designed by the Olmsted firm in 1923 for Louisville, Kentucky, and is believed to be the only Olmsted-designed park created specifically for a Black community during segregation. Olmsted Park Conservancy recently received a $5 million anonymous donation to completely restore the park.

Bettye Foster Baker, who ...Read more

To be honest, I didn't think the bunny had legs.

I wrote about Bad Bunny's Super Bowl appearance a few weeks before it happened, and I concentrated on the commercial nature of the National Football League's decision.

I figured the game would be played, the bunny would hop around on stage, and we'd all go back to eating hot wings and hoping ...Read more

If anything, Donald Trump is consistent. Everything he does is bad. The big things and the little things.

Of course, Trump’s big, bad things get the most attention: sending troops into American cities; kidnapping the president of another country and throwing him in prison; blowing up small boats in the Caribbean and killing all onboard; ...Read more

Some listeners who are not entirely sold on Chappell Roan's artistry brush off her songs and bawdy stage persona as "campy and loud." They see a flashy, attention-grabbing circus act. And even as Roan markets herself as an over-the-top lesbian, the styling still reads as catering to the male gaze. At the recent Grammy Awards, she drew maximum ...Read more

Remember back in the campaign when "immigration" meant deporting the rapists and murderers and gang members who were supposedly flooding across the border and wreaking havoc in our cities? That's what mass deportation meant -- not mass deportation of gardeners and day laborers from Home Depot.

The latest statistics from the Department of ...Read more

There are no innocent bystanders in Donald Trump's America.

Seeing what we've seen lately -- blood spilled in snow, and a vile post depicting a former president and first lady as apes in a jungle -- MAGA world has moral choices to make.

This is a moment of truth for each of you. Do you approve of federal agents out on city streets Trump ...Read more

Years ago, when I announced that I was leaving my job as editor of The Texas Observer to run for political office, I had to admit that into politics is the only downward career move one can make from journalism!

But being both a journalist and a politician does hone one's ability to detect the smell of BS -- and we Americans are presently ...Read more

For five years, President Donald Trump has peddled the false, justly ridiculed claim that the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden was stolen from him. It is a false claim made even more notable, if possible, by the federal indictment issued by a grand jury finding probable cause to conclude that the only person who person to...Read more

Groundhog Day's furry forecaster Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of wintry weather. What if we asked Phil to apply his insights to the frigid job market? He might answer the way an alarmed groundhog does, with chattering teeth, and then squeak, "Wheet! Wheet! Cold days are coming for American jobseekers, and they'll last a lot ...Read more

The Fourth Amendment protects us from being stopped, searched or detained by police without good reason. But over the years, courts have dramatically weakened those protections when it comes to cars and traffic enforcement.

Courts have ruled that a traffic stop is permitted whenever an officer has probable cause of a traffic violation, even ...Read more

You may be thinking that Donald Trump and his Republicans have lost the immigration issue because voters are disgusted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement's indiscriminate roundups, thuggish behavior and their killings of peaceful protesters who happen to be U.S. citizens. Indeed, the polls are clear. Voters have turned against ICE's ...Read more

Under Republican control, the aims of the House Oversight Committee are to promote partisan narratives rather than to reveal facts and advance public understanding of national issues. Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), its chairman, has displayed that routinely self-serving approach in the committee's "investigation" of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal -- ...Read more

I had just sat down with my notes for writing this column when the news came through that journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort had been arrested in Minnesota. My notes were from a luncheon I had attended the previous day. National Association of Black Journalists hall of fame columnist Betty Winston Baye was the featured speaker, and the event...Read more

The difference between having a girlfriend and having a wife is the difference between boxing amateur and fighting professionally. It's the same sport, but, if you're fighting pro, the fights last longer, there's a bigger chance of getting hurt, and there's money involved.

That probably doesn't make you feel better about being married, but it...Read more

Democrats are buzzing over the surprise victory of Taylor Rehmet in a Texas state senate race. Rehmet won by 14 points in a Fort Worth-area district Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024.

That outcome inspired a piece by Republican strategist Karl Rove titled "Midterms Are Dems' to Lose -- and They May." Rove doesn't gloss over ...Read more