Why we need to listen to Bruce Jenner’s story
This was not quite two years after the death of Matthew Shepard, the University of Wyoming student who was brutally murdered for being gay. We were barely two seasons into…
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Enough with the speed traps
As you’re driving along the highway, wouldn’t you like to know if there’s a police car up ahead so you can slow down and avoid getting a ticket? You’d also…
Why child safety ad made sense
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Time to close HIV’s racial disparities
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, being marked Saturday, is a good moment to reignite the conversation over a crisis that should have ended years ago. Despite representing only 13% of…
Obama is not a Christian?
One of the strangest right-wing conspiracies is that Barack Obama is not really a Christian. It’s strange because the President has missed few opportunities to inject Christianity into his rhetoricto…
Black History Month: Bridge racial divides
Brooke dedicated his life to serving his country. After graduating from Dunbar High School and Howard University in his native Washington, D.C., he shipped off to Italy, where he earned…
Does terrorism ever work?
If terrorism is a form of theater where you want a lot of people watching, no event in human history was likely ever seen by a larger global audience than…
Who’s to blame for the Anthem hack?
It landed in my inbox at 1:58 a.m. on Thursday. “To Our Members: Safeguarding your personal, financial and medical information is one of our top priorities, and because of that,…
Why no Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue of men?
The ultra-revealing cover shows Davis pulling down her already-minuscule bikini bottoms to within a millimeter of an area typically reserved for intimate partners and gynecologists. She’s been waxed, it is…
Brian Williams broke public trust
There are some moments in life I will never misremember: The joy of seeing my newborn son for the first time. The sweet excitement of my first kiss. Or, the…
The danger of herbal supplements
As a nutrition expert, I am horrified by the daily barrage of outrageous and unsubstantiated claims touting cures from everything from E. coli to Ebola. If you do a Web…
Where’s Obama’s ISIS strategy?
Three retired senior military commanderswith 12 stars between themrecently came before the Senate Armed Services Committee to give their assessment of the defense and security challenges facing our country. With…
Cut Brian Williams a break on Iraq claim
The NBC anchor issued an abject apology in his “Nightly News” program Wednesday, admitting he’d falsely claimed to have been in a Chinook helicopter shot down over Iraq 12 years…
Agony of defeat: For Seahawks, will it last forever?
There is more. As of Wednesday afternoon, both the New England Patriots and the Seahawks were generating nearly 1,000 tweets per hour, and remember: This is happening in the Twitter…
Congressman’s ‘Downton Abbey’ office
It’s an almost too-perfect metaphor. This week brought news that a Republican member of Congress has decked out his office in the style of the mansion in “Downton Abbey,” the…
What Mississippi can teach California
I can’t believe I’m writing this, but: California, you’ve got a heck of a lot to learn from Mississippi. Not in terms of per capita income, obesity rates or LGBT…
Time to change how we think about cancer
One of the most common misconceptions about cancer is that it is one disease. Most people think of cancer as something that will automatically kill you if left alone, but…
ISIS has miscalculated
The barbaric, elaborately stage-managed video that showed Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh being burned alive was a calculated move by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to weaken the resolve of Jordan…
Can a killer whale be a slave?
“Lolita’s story reminded me of my own,” says African-American actress and singer Robbyne Kaamil. “My own relatives, my family ancestors, were captured and forced into slavery.” Captured in waters off…
Train crash shows killing zones drivers face
The Irish writer James Joyce once said an excellent puzzle would be to try to cross Dublin without walking past a pub. A similar challenge for many cities in the…
I am Italian-American
In 1920, a group of men meeting in downtown Canton founded the National Football League. What’s more American than that? In that same year, the number of Italian immigrants living…
Facing up to Putin’s endgame
The first thing for the West to understand is that, in the short run, no amount of sanctions will force Russia to leave Ukrainenot until the Kremlin achieves victory, which…
The problem with Obama’s budget
The $4 trillion budget President Barack Obama sent Congress on Monday is his blueprint for reviving “middle class opportunity.” Liberals are thrilled by the redistributive thrust of the president’s budgetit…
Opinion: Why ISIS is so brutal
Just when you think ISIS cannot horrify any more than it has, the group sends us to a new level of disbelief. The latest news from the Middle East —…
A pander war by politicians on vaccines
And those parents who have apparently decided it is in their childrens’ interests to forego vaccines are now smack in the middle of it, and with good reason: Outbreaks of…
Can an army of GOP candidates for 2016 make party competitive?
At some level, this is exciting news for the GOP. There are many talented figures in the pool so Republicans will have an opportunity in the primaries to pick the…
Obama’s misguided corporate tax giveaways
President Obama’s new budget includes a mixed bag of tax reforms, including progressive proposals to create a fairer income tax, as well as misguided corporate giveaways. On the individual side,…
Police need to get mental health
On the surveillance video that the department released, you can see the moment in which Coignard decides to die. She raises her knife and charged at Derr, who shoots, as…
Movie business still a man’s world
So, is “Ghostbusters” progress? Yes. Is it a panacea? No. Let’s talk about why. Putting women front and center in film is the exception, not the rule. Using “Ghostbusters” as…
Left shark is an artiste!
But neither the general public nor the media seem to appreciate just how much work goes into an interpretive, character-based dance such as the one Left Shark performed last night,…