Our View: Manchin has good ideas on voting rights, and a very bad one

You’re reading Our View, one of two perspectives in Today’s Debate. For the Opposing View, read “For the People Act will protect democracy.”...

Pride month: On coming out ... and coming out ... and coming out ...

Coming out is hard. So take a lesson from someone who has done it (almost) more times than he can count. The first time I came out was in my...

We don't need state and national orders on how to teach race

As educators wrap up the 2020-21 school year and prepare for a “new normal” this fall, one of the tasks on deck is curriculum planning. In talking...

Opposing View: For the People Act isn't about helping Democratic Party

You’re reading the Opposing View, one of two perspectives in Today’s Debate. For Our View, read “Sen. Manchin has good ideas on voting rights,...

Bill Maher is wrong about Lin-Manuel Miranda's casting apology

Bill Maher thinks there is too much apologizing in America. He made this head-scratching assertion on a recent episode of his eponymous HBO show in...

How Southern Baptists finally got it right on sexual abuse claims

More than 20,000 Southern Baptists descended on Nashville, Tennessee, last week to gather for our annual convention. The church representatives,...

GOP crushes voting rights, cancels out Juneteenth support

This is personal to me. Senate Republicans have won an important battle in their disgraceful war on democracy, but it was a major defeat for the...

My granddaughter's birth heralds a wonderful life after COVID

SAN FRANCISCO — Emily arrived on a day that many Americans, particularly those in California and New York, will long remember. It was...

Battle over defunding police plays out in New York City election

Bishops and Biden: Catholic truth on Communion belongs in public square

Every Sunday, I think: Have I committed a serious sin? That might seem like a ludicrously dour tradition, but for me, it’s not about the sins,...

Our COVID-19 birthday research shows risk of family gatherings

Despite more than a year of significant restrictions on formal gatherings, America has seen more than 33.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19...

The 'biblical' drought western USA: Today's Mike Thompson Toon

Summer has barely begun and already much of the nation is being slammed by a drought that is being described as "biblical" in proportions....

Reporter finishes last in fantasy football league. Enter Waffle House.

I should start with a disclaimer: This was all my fault. I’m the one who suggested we make the person who finished last in our fantasy football...

My family lost businesses in Tulsa. Now I fight for city's justice.

Trump abused power for revenge and profit. Never again: Swalwell

Almost 50 years ago, John Dean warned of “a cancer on the presidency.” For the past four years, the cancer was the president. Donald Trump had...

Court's ruling in Fulton case is vital win for religious minorities

In its decision last week in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Philadelphia violated a Catholic foster care...

Biden must stop methane pipelines to deliver on climate

Four years of President Donald Trump have cost America dearly. We lost our global leadership on addressing climate change and saw the struggle for...

GirlsDoPorn case doesn't end trafficking victims' fight for justice

Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for participating in a sex trafficking scheme called GirlsDoPorn. GirlsDoPorn...

Favorite dinosaur? Pediatrician on joy amid a pandemic

A few days ago, I had an online appointment with a patient. Because I’m a pediatrician, my patient was a young boy. As I was wrapping things up,...

Delay, deny, hope you die: I'm a veteran dying from burn pit exposure

Why am I still alive? How have I survived this long? Those are the questions on my mind four years after being handed a death sentence in the form...

I talk to my father every day, though he died 15 years ago

Transgender dad: I used to have to celebrate Father's Day in secret

My first Father’s Day after I began transitioning came in 2018. I’d just had my surgery the day before and was given bed rest orders, but I was...

Biden is better on the world stage than any president since Bush 41

Slavery's trauma: Teacher's lack of empathy generations in the making.

Applaud Juneteenth progress but not pushback on critical race theory

Blacks originated American music. Nation needs to right the record.

School choice sets students up for success. Time to make it national.

Twenty years ago, I had the privilege of signing the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship bill into law and today, more than a million Florida students...

A Father's Day thank and apology letter to my son

Dear son,  Thank you.  Your mom and I have been stressed, tired, sad, angry and just overall worried about how this pandemic was unfolding and what...

50-year war on drugs has failed. Treat addiction, don't punish it.

Fifty years ago this month, the United States launched a war on its own people. President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number...