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One evening, just over a week ago, I was walking in Midtown Manhattan when dozens of police cars, sirens blasting, lights flashing, descended on the area. Cops cut off entire avenues to traffic. Soon a phalanx of police vehicles, followed by a column of identical black SUVs, whooshed past red ...
Many, many moons ago, my family elders advised me: “Son, prepare yourself, because you never know when the doors of opportunity are going to open up. And when they do, you need to be ready to step inside.” That was good advice, although I didn’t immediately take it to heart. I had to ...
The least funny joke told during the most recent presidential debate was former President Donald Trump falsely accusing Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating people’s dogs and cats. Oh, sure, it was hilarious at first. Vice President Kamala Harris even laughed when he said it. I mean, ...
Gun violence is not just an urban issue. As rural community members along I-75 near Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky say things like “this is unheard of here” after a gunman shot at cars driving on the highway, they are forced to grapple with the fact that this American atrocity ...
In “The Wizard of Oz,” the stentorian power of the great Oz is revealed as a fraud when Toto the dog (how apt) pulls back the curtain to reveal a squat, middle-aged man speaking into a microphone. Oz’s power was all artifice. On Sept. 10, Kamala Harris pulled the curtain to reveal a ...
As we tuned into the big debate, the Trump camp was peddling the claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating people’s dogs and cats. When the debate turned to the subject of immigration, Donald Trump jumped on that hallucination without prompt. “In Springfield, ...