The racial equity glossary

4 years ago

You can’t have a discussion without a common language. To facilitate discussion, here is a glossary of “racial equity” terms,…

How to end “white privilege”

4 years ago

City Managing Director Brian Abernathy, still working after announcing his resignation after less than two years on the job, lit…

Dems on immigration: Left of Obama

4 years ago

By tradition, the political season begins after Labor Day, but in a year where most other tradition has been turned…

Why the DeSean Jackson controversy had little splash

4 years ago

Today’s topic is hypocrisy, and our shared reaction to hate. Today’s subject is DeSean Jackson, an admirer of Louis Farrakhan,…

Living in the virus bubble

4 years ago

I just got off the phone with my one-time office spouse, and I’m feeling guilty. Office spouses (Photo: The Mercury…

Here come the Democrats

4 years ago

Here’s something that goes around periodically — a satire of the Democratic national convention schedule. I’d be happy to publish…

A solution to the statue problem

4 years ago

I wish Jonathan Holloway well. The 53-year-old educator and historian recently became the president of New Jersey’s flagship university, Rutgers,…

Are you into (anti) social media?

4 years ago

Remember before the Internet, when you used to get gossip at the water cooler and the beauty shop, and you…

Small state, smaller racial idea

4 years ago

It’s always painful to admit ignorance, so it hurts when I say I had no idea that the full name…

Mt. Rushmore vs Crazy Horse

4 years ago

President Donald J. Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore reignited complaints from Native Americans that the land was stolen from them,…