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(11/28/16 12:31am)
It's generally easier on the conscience to not think about where the fuel that brought most USC students away from campus last week came from. Doing so involves delving into America's past in the Middle East and pollution at home.
(11/21/16 12:39am)
In 2001, the South Carolina legislature approved a monument to African-American history on the Statehouse grounds. The move came as they debated whether to move the Confederate flag from its perch on top of the Statehouse.
(11/09/16 11:06pm)
I expected I would wake up Wednesday morning and write a column with a dark joke about how America walked away from the edge of the bridge but still needed to grapple with the issues that brought it there in the first place.
(10/30/16 11:13pm)
For decades, liberals and minority communities have asserted that conservatism is about suppressing minority groups. And for decades, conservatives have responded with “It’s not about hate, it’s about ___________.” The blank could be filled in with law and order, upholding the sanctity of marriage, keeping women safe or various other things.
(10/03/16 3:35am)
In 2012, the Republican nominee for president lamented that 47 percent of Americans paid no income tax and would never vote for a Republican because of it. In 2016, the Republicans made a billionaire who once paid no income tax their presidential nominee. Why this is tolerated strikes to the core of how we view welfare as a country and why that attitude is problematic.
(09/24/16 10:06pm)
On the eve of the debates, it’s starting to look like Hillary Clinton could lose to the most inexperienced major party nominee in American history.
(09/14/16 11:57pm)
Earlier this week, a video leaked of Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser suggesting that about half of Donald Trump's supporters fell into a "basket of deplorables." Right-wing figures and the media pounced on the remarks, criticizing her for insulting a large portion of the electorate.
(09/12/16 12:58am)
There’s a lot of talk in politics about the monstrous problem of China, our chief global rival, holding a ton of our debt. It’s only a matter of time until it calls that in and brings America to its knees, after all.
(08/23/16 10:25pm)
Elected Republicans like to talk a lot about "activist courts" overstepping their bounds to make decisions on public policy. Criticisms of "an activist court's 'social engineering'" are at least as old as Brown v. Board of Education and the desegregation of public schools. The same rhetoric has continued to the modern day, with conservatives griping about decisions in favor of same-sex marriage or the health care law.
(08/18/16 1:43am)
Free college, or at least debt free college, was a popular idea during the Democratic primaries. Senator Bernie Sanders used it to drive up support among young voters and soundly beat Hillary Clinton among the demographic.
(08/12/16 6:42am)
Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence, has a 40 percent approval rating in his home state of Indiana. Pence’s rise and fall in many ways mirror the shift from relative pragmatism to conservative posturing in the GOP during the Obama administration.
(06/28/16 5:50pm)
I devoted part of my column last week to fact-averse or prejudice-motivated legislation being pushed by some modern conservatives. Then the Democrats pulled a stunt this week that is forcing me to admit that high-profile liberals do it too.
(06/23/16 5:41am)
In his final column, longtime writer Ross Abbott talked about the ideological bias of this section. As one of the opinion section editors last year and one of the section editors for Fall 2016, I want to take a second to talk about this section and our relationship with diversity.
(06/13/16 8:58pm)
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the Stanford rapist has become widely discussed and hated in recent days. Even though he was caught raping a woman and subsequently convicted, a judge decided that giving him more than a six-month sentence would be unfair. After all, the man was a good swimmer and jail would ruin his career and future. The rapist’s father then waded into the controversy with a cringe-worthy letter describing rape as “20 minutes of action” and apparently arguing that liking to cook steaks balances out raping an intoxicated woman.
(06/10/16 9:44pm)
When the Supreme Court ruled that the same sex couples had a constitutional right to marry, national Democrats and LGBT rights organizations began to focus on non-discrimination laws. At present, there are very few federal protections that prevent people from being fired or denied housing or services because of who they love or who they are. Most states don’t even have those protections, even though they’re such a no-brainer that 90 percent of Americans believe they already exist.
(04/11/16 1:13am)
This column is a response to the column "Freedom of religion under attack" that ran Wednesday.
(03/28/16 3:34am)
If you stay offline or away from comment sections, you might not have seen the building and breaking of a tidal wave of pure nerd fury. "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice," the latest comic book flick, has been released in theaters. The reactions were divergent and surprisingly full of insights into human nature and current events.
(03/22/16 1:09am)
On Monday, the remaining presidential candidates made their ritual voyage to the AIPAC Policy Conference, hosted by Israel’s primary lobbying group. This year, only Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, did not attend. While Sanders’ decision to skip and the protests around Donald Trump’s presence made headlines, what went unnoticed was the expectation that all serious candidates would go to speak uncritically of the Jewish state.
(03/15/16 3:13am)
The March 15 elections will pit Donald Trump against Gov. John Kasich in the latter’s home state of Ohio. As a large winner-take-all primary, it is a must-win for the anti-Trump coalition. It could also have real symbolic value.
(03/01/16 3:54am)
The only people the hordes of the online comment sections seem to hate more than serial killers and terrorists are animal abusers. Invariably, whenever the police bust a family mistreating a dog or cat, someone on the Internet will call for a punishment that almost certainly classifies as “cruel and unusual.”