“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s a quote that in some form has been attributed to many and uttered by many more, perhaps because it is so wise and has proven itself again and again. Unfortunately, anyone who revived the slogan in 2023 would be labeled “woke” in a […]
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When members of Congress gathered on the Capitol steps last week to remember the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and honor those who defended them and democracy itself, there were glaring gaps in the heartfelt tableau. That Friday morning, two years to the day after insurrectionists swarmed the U.S. Capitol with the intent of overturning
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Two years ago, our democracy was attacked by a group of angry insurrectionists trying to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election. At the time, most people viewed it as a misguided group of angry voters involved in something that just got away from them. Since then, investigations seem to point to an effort
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“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” The phrase has morphed from hackneyed joke to cliche to words to live by. When I saw the street scene from the familiar city of Tucson, Ariz., it looked like a creation of Claes Oldenburg. But this tableau of a port-a-potty sliding into a plastic heap in
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It looked like an ordinary room when I visited it years ago, a place you’d pause for a chat in the middle of a work day or to enjoy that lunch packed from home. But it was so much more, a room where memories and emotions overwhelm in the space of a few seconds. When
Talked about the state of democracy one year after January 6 with Charles Blow and Ohio State professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries on BNC’s ‘Prime.’
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My college roommate has been much in demand in the last few years. (In truth, the presidency of Donald Trump marked a definite uptick in her mainstream media popularity.) You see, her academic specialty is Sinclair Lewis. And if his 1935 novel, “It Can’t Happen Here,” was once seen as dystopian political fantasy, it became — in
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The late great stand-up, actor and occasional philosopher George Carlin was known to cross the lines of what polite society would call good taste, but he himself drew a few lines when it came to his theory of funny. Asked by Larry King in 1990 about popular bad-boy comedian Andrew Dice Clay, Carlin, while defending Clay’s right to say
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It was only a few weeks ago that North Carolina’s rate for positive COVID-19 tests was below 2%. But the spread of the delta variant sent the positivity rate above 10% this week — the first time since February it crossed that threshold. Gov. Roy Cooper and others said the worsening metrics were the result of COVID-19
It was both politically smart, and the right thing to do. By opening the hearing of the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with the testimony of police officers on the front line, still suffering from the effects of the violence of that day, the world got to hear what really happened and
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