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When he entered the camps for the first time, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, confronting the horror, insisted that photographers create a full record of the atrocities, lest future generations deny that it had happened. Which hasn't fully stopped the deniers.

On Jan. 6, 2021, we all saw an insurrection directed at our democracy. It was on live...Read more

Checks and balances, our teachers taught us, were America's ace in the hole. Human beings are highly fallible and easily corruptible. Because the Founding Fathers knew that -- "The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted," James Madison -- warned they crafted the three branches of the new federal government as counterweights ...Read more

Louisville Urban League President Lyndon Pryor said something at the organization's annual Impact Luncheon last month that has been stuck on replay in my head ever since. I'm paraphrasing here, but he told the crowd, "If you're wondering what you would do in the face of injustice, you're doing it right now."

We find it easy to judge people in...Read more

There's no such thing as a "smart bomb" because bombs don't ask questions.

"You're not dropping me there," no bomb ever said. "There's kids down there."

But there are smart people, and this is one hell of a time to be smart.

After the United States bombed Venezuela for oil, the smart people talked about "geopolitics," the Monroe Doctrine, ...Read more

Back in the mists of time, Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey was asked on "Meet the Press" whether he liked spending the taxpayers' money. The question was barbed, but his response was masterful. Yes, Humphrey said, he was fine if the public dollars went to beneficial projects and the money was carefully spent.

The scandal in Minnesota could ...Read more

I thought I was reading something wrong. The same story had two "headlines" on the screen.

One announced that the flu season surged in the United States over the holidays and already rivals last winter's harsh epidemic.

The other -- the caption for the picture of a flu shot that ran with the story -- announced that the Trump administration ...Read more

Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump's followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.

I should say it was solemn and healing for the Democratic members of the House and Senate, who honored the ...Read more

There's greed ... and then there's the nauseating greed of profiteering corporations that make a killing -- literally -- by knowingly contaminating people's water, air, land and families.

Such rank moral corruption is hard to fathom, but it's not hard to find. For one breathtaking example, consider Freeport-McMoRan.

This global mining ...Read more

Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastasizing threat from extremism from both Right and Left, Farah Pandith could be forgiven for feeling that her life's work combating hate is hopeless.

She doesn't.

The Kashmiri-born veteran ...Read more

The year opened with what could be one of the most horrifying videos of 2026. At 1:30 a.m. in a basement bar at a Swiss ski resort, flames started dancing on the ceiling. Instead of rushing upstairs to flee the room, many celebrants lifted their cellphones toward the blaze, eager to record the thrilling moment to share with friends worldwide. ...Read more

As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it in dance halls. Clergy and civic reformers claimed its rhythms promoted sexual freedom and interracial dancing among the youth.

Jazz was just the beginning. In the 1950s, the government set ...Read more

On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced the death of the late President's 35-year-old granddaughter. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts." Just weeks before, she had published an article in The New Yorker about her battle with leukemia that followed the birth ...Read more

There is, at this writing, a better-than-even chance that Democrats will recapture the House of Representatives. They also have a shot at the Senate. If either or both happens, Democrats will declare victory. That's fair.

They will claim a mandate. They will describe their win as vindication of their candidates and their ideas. Unfair. And ...Read more

I don't make New Year's resolutions, but I do set goals. I take time to reflect on the previous year to look at what I'd like to build upon, what I'd like to scrap and what could use a tweaking in the new year. My husband does something similar.

This year, instead of just setting individual goals I thought we could make family goals, too. It ...Read more

No matter how terrible a thing you do, if you do it over and over again, a pattern will emerge.

So, the serial killer picks up young prostitutes, strangles them in his car and dumps them on the side of gravel roads. He does this while thinking of his mother.

The United States of America cheers and slogans its way into continuous wars in lonely...Read more

Every year, for as long as I can remember, I would resolve to lose weight. 125 pounds it said on my driver's license, even though it wasn't accurate at the time I wrote it down. It was my goal, every year, to get there by my birthday, which is in mid-December. And every year, I would fail, berate myself and then vow to lose the weight in the ...Read more

We've been writing this weekly column for close to 20 years. This one will be our last syndicated by King Features. We have aspired to stay true to this column's original intent, to "break the sound barrier," highlighting voices excluded from the corporate media, covering the movements that drive change, and holding to account those in power, ...Read more