Trump, the wall and a yearning for blond, blue-eyed
During a January 2018 meeting in the Oval Office with members of Congress focusing on a possible bipartisan immigration policy, Haiti, El Salvador and African …
Democrats should take on health care to lay groundwork for Green New Deal
You want Congress to take quick action to move the country forward and you have to choose between the “Green New Deal” and, for example, …
Venezuela’s Maduro must leave office but invasion not the answer
By the time this column is being read, Nicolas Maduro may no longer be president of Venezuela. The successor to Hugo Chavez has run the …
Guyana has opportunity for badly needed national unity
An interesting drama is about to play out in Guyana, the former British colony on the northern shoulder of South America, where huge oil discoveries …
Power-hungry Republicans seek to frustrate voters’ wishes, preserve white privilege
Donald Trump did not start the ugly politics of the past few years. The spiteful and destructive partisanship is the creation of other white men …
Class manipulation, compounded by race, is at the heart of America’s divisions
In Perspective To millions of Americans, it was disheartening that, in the Nov. 6 referendum on Donald Trump, three Southern states rejected qualified African American …
Jonestown tragedy remains a cautionary tale 40 years later
PHOTO COURTESY OF JONESTOWN APOLOGISTS ALERT I don’t believe I ever met the Rev. Jim Jones in person but the story of the man who …
FUTURE FLORIDA GOVERNOR
PHOTO COURTESY OF BLENDTW There may have been joy in Washington yesterday morning for Democrats but in Florida it was once again a time to …
Trump’s enablers must share the blame for America’s toxic divisiveness
In Perspective If the mailing of bombs to the homes of two former presidents of the United States, other senior Democratic leaders and one television …
Gillum candidacy a chance for voters to reject racism, make history
Roberto Pineto pleaded guilty to taking part in a scheme to sell fake IDs which some Russians used to interfere in the 2016 presidential election …