Why I’m rooting for the Toronto Blue Jays in the World Series

I'd like Canada to win because it is standing up to a bully.

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The real value of the ‘No Kings’ protests

No, the marches didn’t eradicate the problems that protesters wanted addressed. But in community, their souls found the sustenance to keep pushing...

23.10.2025 10

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Trump’s potty presidency

Long before he posted disgusting AI slop, Trump had already soiled this nation.

21.10.2025 3

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Kitty, Judy, Doris, Josephine, and the daughters they raised

The last of my closest friends has joined the sad sorority of motherless daughters.

19.10.2025 20

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Too soon an ancestor — remembering the incomparable D’Angelo

D’Angelo, born Michael Eugene Archer, is yet another Black man who will not grow old.

17.10.2025 3

Renée Graham

Black unemployment is surging, thanks to Trump

Trump’s targeting of federal employees and dismantling of DEI initiatives threaten to decimate the already fragile Black middle class.

15.10.2025 2

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MAGA says Bad Bunny isn’t ‘unifying’ enough to perform at the Super Bowl. We know what they really mean.

The NFL needs to stand up to right-wing pressure to change the halftime show.

12.10.2025 30

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Why I’ve struggled to finish reading Kamala Harris’s memoir

I found it increasingly difficult to continue because I wasn’t prepared to live through its end again.

09.10.2025 8

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Why is Trump so obsessed with Portland, Ore.?

Perhaps he feels betrayed that this majority-white city doesn’t support him.

07.10.2025 3

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Hollywood’s newest supervillain: an AI-generated ‘actress’

Tilly Norwood is fake. But the attention she’s getting is making real actors nervous.

03.10.2025 10

Renée Graham

How ‘Breaking Bad’ foretold today’s manosphere

The show and the reaction to it, predicted the mainstreaming of misogyny that in its many forms, online and off, can make life miserable for too many...

02.10.2025 5

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The everywhere, all at once president

No corner of American life will be left unsullied by Trump’s fingerprints.

30.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

Trump blames women for autism

Unsound medical advice from men who have no business offering it.

28.09.2025 20

Renée Graham

End the gerontocracy — establish age limits for elected politicians

For this nation to thrive, it needs young people with fresh ideas who can ponder a future that they will be part of for decades to come..

25.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

An American president toppling American democracy is uncharted territory

No, we haven’t been here before.

23.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

Robert Redford was Hollywood’s last true movie star

There are many fine actors. Few possess that lit-from-the-inside-out quality that made Redford one of our greats.

20.09.2025 10

Renée Graham

Hegseth’s ridiculous attempt to push Black servicemen out of the military

It’s yet another ugly feature of the Trump administration’s determination to bar its dangerously narrow vision of a nation from participation in...

18.09.2025 3

Renée Graham

The joyful perseverance of Ketanji Brown Jackson

While it’s increasingly difficult in this political climate, to foster joy is to hold on to hope.

17.09.2025 10

Renée Graham

Team Biden never gave Kamala Harris a chance

According to the former VP, Joe Biden's aides felt that "if she's shining, he's dimmed."

14.09.2025 30

Renée Graham

When grief curdled into hate after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks

We became enemies toward each other.

11.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

The president’s snub of Tom Hanks is a badge of honor

Who wants to be fêted by an authoritarian administration?

09.09.2025 20

Renée Graham

Courageous women, craven president

Epstein survivors aren’t intimidated by Trump calling government files on the convicted sex offender a “hoax.”

07.09.2025 10

Renée Graham

No amount of hand makeup can cover up concerns about Trump’s health

Even the president's reemergence at the White House could not deter the continuing alarm over America’s political gerontocracy.

04.09.2025 4

Renée Graham

The Trump administration is dangerous to your health

RFK Jr. is a lying, science-denying chaos monster dragging the once-respected CDC to hell, and there’s no indication when or how it will find its...

03.09.2025 7

Renée Graham

Snoop Dogg is back in the doghouse

A rant about lesbian moms in a kids’ movie by your grandma’s favorite rapper has eyes rolling again.

31.08.2025 30

Renée Graham

Seventy years later, America has yet to reckon with Emmett Till’s murder

History isn’t that many yesterdays ago.

28.08.2025 7

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Mayor Wu is a social media clapback maven

In defense of Boston, the city she wants to continue to lead, Wu is challenging the Trump administration across various platforms.

27.08.2025 10

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Gloria Gaynor betrays the communities that helped her career survive

The "I Will Survive" singer is scheduled to be an lifetime achievement honoree at the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center this year.

24.08.2025 10

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Remembering Danielle Spencer, the child star who made a meaningful life beyond the spotlight

Success isn’t only defined by red carpet arrivals, shiny trophies, and hit movies and TV shows.

21.08.2025 5

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Why Trump continues to lie about the 2020 presidential election

For the president, his falsehoods around that losing outcome remain his most potent weapon in his fight against fair elections.

19.08.2025 3

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Same-sex marriage is no threat to religious liberty

A Kentucky woman who once denied a marriage license to a gay couple wants the Supreme Court to overturn its landmark same-sex marriage decision.

17.08.2025 30

Renée Graham

Trump is too soft to handle America’s hard truths

History is neither positive or negative — it just is. And it should be presented without fear, favor, or Trump’s white supremacist vision.

14.08.2025 4

Renée Graham

Throwing sex toys during WNBA games isn’t a joke. It’s sexual harassment.

Hostile men — not trans women — are the biggest threat to women’s sports.

12.08.2025 3

Renée Graham

A brief history of Trump pretending not to know things

For the president, pleading ignorance equals innocence.

10.08.2025 10

Renée Graham

Leave Labubu lovers alone

People need even fleeting solace and escape, and buying and cuddling a Labubu or 10 seems pretty harmless.

08.08.2025 20

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Is Trump trying to sanitize his political legacy at the Smithsonian?

A museum exhibit about the presidency has removed mention of Trump’s first-term impeachments.

05.08.2025 2

Renée Graham

Trump seems suspiciously open to a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell

Trump hasn’t ruled out a pardon for the woman who was an accomplice of his former pal, the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

03.08.2025 30

Renée Graham

A columnist walks into another columnist’s newsletter…

This is what we came up with so that our readers can get to know us a little better.

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How Gen Z made Fleetwood Mac the hottest band in America

Fifty years later, "Silver Springs" remains a breakup ballad for the ages.

29.07.2025 6

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Trump’s latest Epstein distraction — falsely accusing Obama of ‘treason’

He’s smearing the former president to shift focus from the self-inflicted crisis consuming his administration.

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How Ozzy Osbourne helped me navigate my grief

Ozzy was a middle-aged dad befuddled by his kids, his wife, the passage of time and, mostly, himself — a lot like my father.

24.07.2025 4

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A ‘kiss cam,’ a cheating couple, and a needed helping of accountability

Oh look — people held responsible for their reckless actions. More, please.

22.07.2025 4

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Remember the real victims of Jeffrey Epstein

The focus shouldn't be on Trump's latest attempt to shield himself from responsibility. It should be on inching closer to justice for the...

17.07.2025 3

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Does pop music need a retirement age?

For better — or worse — artists in their 70s, 80s, and beyond keep touring for adoring fans.

15.07.2025 4

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MAGA comes for one of its own: Pam Bondi

The attorney general once claimed she had Jeffrey Epstein’s client list. Now she says it doesn’t exist.

13.07.2025 10

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Trump’s authoritarian manipulation of language

Trump wants his reach, even down to our usage of words that sound like his own, to be absolute in his obscenity of a presidency.

11.07.2025 4

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DOGE and the damage done in Texas

Nature’s fury — possibly aided by the Trump administration’s reckless cuts — proves lethal as flash floods kill more than 100 people.

08.07.2025 5

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Despite the Combs verdict, Cassie Ventura gets a modicum of accountability

By revealing the truth about the man behind the curated image, she lifted other domestic violence survivors who suffer in silence.

06.07.2025 10

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It’s time to retire the term ‘tomboy’

Then and now, restrictive gender labels ostracize kids who only want to express who they are.

03.07.2025 5

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To avoid a Trump-orchestrated primary challenge, a defiant Senator Tillis chose to forgo reelection

But if Trump’s bill was a test for Republicans, the vast majority of them again failed miserably.

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