by Starlette Thomas | Nov 10, 2022 | Opinion
Affirmative action continues to mean different things for Americans. Viewed as a helping hand, a handout or a hindrance to meaningful progress, how it is decided who has access to higher education continues to hold back discussions on deracialized equality. The phrase...
by Randall Balmer | Nov 10, 2022 | Opinion
I resolved some years ago to stop tracking birthdays, although I do have to calculate several times a year. Let’s see, 1954 to 2000 is 46, then add … what year is it again? This birthday, number 68, would be unremarkable but for the fact that my father succumbed to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 9, 2022 | Opinion
We’re sitting on the upper deck of the Crab’s Claw in Atlantic Beach, enjoying the salty breeze, and sweating. It’s November, and it’s 82 degrees. An obnoxiously busy October left Susan and I both yearning for respite, so we made an uncharacteristically impromptu...
by John D. Pierce | Nov 8, 2022 | Opinion
Dinosaur Ridge runs along an interstate highway just outside of Denver, Colorado. The convenient location provided both exercise and education on a recent morning before a scheduled evening flight. As is often the case, my colleague and hiking partner Bruce Gourley...
by Jack Moline | Nov 8, 2022 | Opinion
Conservative Christian talk-show host Tony Beam’s words may be a dangerous and divisive statement in today’s political climate. Indeed, there are plenty of people on the right and the left who may take them as “fightin’ words.” I consider them wise. Here is what he...
by Starlette Thomas | Nov 7, 2022 | Opinion
It’s the most expensive time of the year. From Halloween until the New Year’s ball dropping, we’re told it’s time to go shopping, but “late-stage capitalism” is exhausting. Also known as “late capitalism” or “end-stage capitalism,” a term...
