In the days that followed, a tribute to Yaroslav Koporulin appeared on American University’s website, and a friend of the family created a GoFundMe to help John O’Mahony, who is now left to raise the couple’s four young children on his own.
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Biden speaks openly about systemic racism. Could his words lead to change?
If Biden gets to talk about race without the racial baggage Obama carried, does it mean he might actually be able to get more accomplished on race? Could he use white privilege to dilute white privilege?
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Don’t let the doorknob hit’cha where the good Lord split’cha
Dear Price Wallace: There was a time I would have reasoned with you. There was a time I might even have pleaded. Back then, I’d have been shocked and appalled to see a Mississippi state lawmaker advocate secession from the Union as you did in a Twitter exchange with former state representative Robert Foster a […]
The ‘stolen election’ myth is powerful enough to keep Trump in power
We should never underestimate the power of a political myth, artfully contrived and relentlessly repeated, to alter the course of history. Donald Trump’s myth, that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden because it was “stolen” — like the myth that Germany lost World War I because it was “stabbed in the back” […]
John P. Smith: The world of artificial hips
If you have an implanted hip, this article concerns learning more about it, to help you to become a bona fide Hipster. Hips are replaced today more than ever before; this trend will continue. A reason for this is that your original hip is simply a bony, mechanical joint. As such, tissue surrounding hips can, […]
Cal Thomas: Where should evangelicals go now?
Evangelical Christians have unquestionably been a loyal and largely unmovable base of support for President Trump since he has been in office and in some cases before. Should the election results not be overturned by recounts or court decisions, where do they go and what should they do? Perhaps no evangelical pastor has been a […]
Froma Harrop: Was gun waving the worst part?
Some of the sickest images to come out of our recent turmoil have featured Americans waving guns at other Americans – not in self-defense but to provoke fear. The worst showed armed thugs threatening Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on the state capitol steps over her anti-COVID regulations. (This was separate from an alleged plot by […]
Rich Lowry: The completely insane Electoral College strategy
Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option? President Donald Trump’s challenges of the outcome of the presidential race in several razor-thin battleground states are unlikely to succeed. Faced with this prospect, some allies of the president are advocating, or beginning to whisper about, Republican state legislatures taking matters into […]
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Acknowledging a bitter defeat is never easy
We turn, one last time, to Hans Christian Andersen. Over the past four years, many observers, this one included, have found one of the Danish writer’s most famous tales irresistible for explaining both Donald Trump and the Republican Party’s slavish sycophancy toward him. In “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a monarch parades through town naked, having […]
Cal Thomas: Bipolar America
If Joe Biden survives recounts and several lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign into what Trump says has been widespread vote-counting fraud (we await proof), do not expect him to be hounded over his and Hunter Biden’s business ties to China and Ukraine as President Trump has been over “Russian collusion” charges and numerous other […]