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When it comes to COVID-19, a college campus is like a cruise ship, a cinema multiplex and a restaurant all rolled into one. Yet many U.S. inst…
Commentators have been busy trying to discern what Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was up to when he joined the Supreme Court's four liberal…
Right about now, the state and county fair season would normally be in full swing. For the elephants and camels who are forced to plod in endl…
The story surfaced like one of those trial balloons we're used to seeing out of political offices and campaigns - Republican insiders telling …
COVID-19 has stricken our nation's jails and prisons, leading to tens of thousands of sickened inmates and more than 500 deaths. In response, …
The effectiveness of DNA testing and searches of the national DNA database is well-known. Over the last three decades, 137 wrongly convicted p…
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The federal government's response to COVID-19 has been haphazard, mismanaged and ultimately deadly. Yet the Trump administration is trumpeting…
In November, a new generation of California voters will have the opportunity to restore affirmative action in the state. Assembly Constitution…
Earlier in June, activists tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus outside the Minneapolis State Capitol. Mainstream media news coverage in…
Attorney General William P. Barr sat down for an interview with NPR and did little to dispel the impression that he's run his office in ways t…
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a huge spike in layoffs, leaving tens of millions of Americans without the employer-sponsored health insurance th…
Our country's systemic racism combined with inequities exacerbated by COVID-19 threaten a 15-year trend of improving educational advancements …
The undergrad who lives in the back room keeps trying to get me to rejoin the world. "Let's get coffee," she suggests one day. "Let's take a d…
As an English professor, I write and teach about words for a living. But you don't need a Ph.D. to realize some of the language we use to talk…
No wonder President Donald Trump has been in a snit lately. A new poll shows the president trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden n…
The protesters occupying America's streets are rightly outraged over the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many others, and the …
As the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr continues to be accused of doing President Donald Trump's dirty work, former Vic…
Twenty-two. That's how old I was when Yusef Hawkins was killed by a bat-wielding, gun-toting mob of white men because he dared to come into th…
As rumors of Kim Jong-un's death circulated in April, some speculated that his sister and confidant, Kim Yo Jong, might soon succeed him as No…
Picture, if you will, four Russian nesting dolls, each roosting inside another. Imagine the largest figurine is of President Donald Trump, and…
Recently, as I scrolled the more than 1 million tweets connected to the hashtag #Black_Lives_Matter, this is what flashed before my eyes: the …
As college sports programs reopen, student-athletes around the country are weighing the risks of COVID-19 as their universities encourage them…
Have we replaced government "by the people" with rule by the mob? It certainly feels that way. A potentially healthy debate over policing, rac…
First, they vandalized the language of Cervantes: changing the "o" in "Latino" to an "x," to give us "Latinx." Now, these self-appointed socia…
Whenever you sign up for a new social media service or website, or download an app onto your phone or computer, you'll typically see some long…
So the European Union, which has largely controlled the spread of COVID-19 and understandably wants to keep it that way, is deciding whom to l…
