The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a brilliant speech earlier this month about his decision to remove Confederate monuments from prominent display. It was gracious, eloquent and powerful. “The historical record is clear, the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T. Beauregard statues […]

So it begins. The nation is edging toward the constitutional crisis that many feared would erupt during the Trump administration. Our democracy is more fragile than I knew. We are so bitterly divided, so consumed by partisanship and tribalism, that we seem willing to destroy the very thing we are fighting over: our country. Perhaps […]

The latest tragic shooting of an unarmed black man — a child, really — occurred in a suburb of Dallas, Texas called Balch Springs. On Saturday night, April 29, as four teenagers were driving away from a house party, an overzealous police officer fired into the car, hitting 15-year-old Jordan Edwards in the head. The […]