As the Census Bureau tries to keep up with the ways we Americans see ourselves, the boxes they offer us to check can seem silly, cumbersome and even out of touch. But we all need to look in a mirror sometimes, even if only to find out who we are — and how much we have changed.

Once upon a time colorblindness was an uncontroversial idea. It was considered a core American ideal and worth aspiring to, even if we were failing to live up to it. In recent decades, though, it has run into a buzz-saw of opposition. It clashes with the Left’s near-theological commitment to racial preferences, especially on college campuses, and with fashionable new forms of left-wing racialism.

Our $34 trillion debt is unsustainable, according to most economists. If we don’t act soon, we will be worse off than we are now.

Held every year at Tammy’s Diner and Nail Emporium off I-20 in Augusta, the Tuesday Night Losers Dinner looks like a convention of men whose dogs just got run over.

As a state, we have been blessed with leaders whose careful stewardship has protected our financial future. Now it’s time to embrace an equally critical virtue — compassionate care of one another.

Today almost half of Haiti’s population is struggling to find food, clean living conditions and a sense of hope amid yet another period of chaos. The Biden administration, already struggling with other foreign and domestic crises in Gaza, Ukraine and this country’s southern border, shows little appetite to become deeply immersed in perennially troubled Haiti.

“The Black Box,” along with the writings of Thomas Sowell, ought to be mandatory reading in every high school and American University, in large part to make up for the suppressed writings of talented and intelligent Black people of the past. They deserve the attention and praise most were denied in their time.

The Key Bridge has closed the narrow passage connecting Baltimore’s harbor to Chesapeake Bay. A terror attack could have happened. Deepwater Horizon was an accident — but terrorists can attack offshore platforms. Mexican cartels have seized Mexican oil platforms, for ransom.

A paradox of the Biden administration is that the old-school car enthusiast is — in the name of the future and of saving the planet — waging a war on the internal-combustion-engine cars that he so admires and that have helped define American life over the last 100 years.