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Mary C. Curtis, a columnist at Roll Call, is an award-winning journalist and educator based in Charlotte, N.C., and Washington, D.C. Her coverage specialty is the intersection of politics, culture and race.
She has contributed to NBC News, NPR, The Washington Post, The Root, ESPN’s The Undefeated and talks politics on WCCB-TV and NPR-affiliate WFAE in Charlotte. Curtis has worked at The New York Times, the Charlotte Observer, the Baltimore Sun, and the Associated Press, and was national correspondent for AOL’s Politics Daily.
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Decorum. It’s a loaded word. According to one Merriam-Webster definition, it means “propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance.” According to Republican legislators who own a supermajority in their state house, it’s what their Democratic colleagues are lacking. Senate Speaker Randy McNally used the word in calling out, as he...
There was certainly a lot on the agenda when Pope Leo XIV recently met with Marco Rubio: The Pontiff sharing the message of the Gospel; the U.S. Secretary of State, a Catholic, trying his best, no doubt, to make peace after the American president dragged the Pope into a back-and-forth on war...
When Black women show up – as election workers, activists, advocates, voters – they make a difference. So, when they step forward, why do they so often meet resistance, not just from opponents, but also from supposed allies? And why has that never stopped them. Atima Omara’s new book, “The...
If the line separating church and state in America has not yet disappeared, it is certainly fading fast. The evidence? A Supreme Court willing to rule in favor of faith-based lawsuits; a Secretary of Defense framing the war in Iran in apocalyptic terms; a president pushing a law restricting voting...
Just who is a “domestic terrorist,” and what is the danger when a protest is labeled “an act of domestic terrorism”? President Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, has announced a drawdown of troops in Minnesota, where immigration raids swept up many, including U.S. citizens, triggered protests and left two of...
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