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OP-ED: Before DeSantis, Miami was fun

LetĢƵ be grateful that Ron DeSantis devotes so much of his time raging over drag queens and bragging how he punished Disney for disagreeing with him. An obsessive pursuit of “woke” has kept the Florida governor and apparent presidential candidate from mucking around serious matters. But, ...

Please stop this ‘woke’ nonsense

I suppose “woke” is now a dirty word.For the better part of a century, the word, “woke,” hadn’t harmed anybody.It had long been a bit of African American vernacular which meant alert, or aware of racial and social injustices.ThatĢƵ all.Somehow, folks on the political right, have ...

Yes, people over age 80 can continue to serve

Over the last 21 centuries, there have been more than 260 popes. Some have lasted fewer than 20 days on the job, a couple were just in their 20s when they ascended to the VaticanĢƵ top job, and one particularly ill-tempered pope so detested cats that he ordered them to be killed, unwittingly ...

OP-ED: Shakespeare is not about whiteness

Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, thereĢƵ another, worse charge against the bard — he created the concept of whiteness.Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is ...

OP-ED: Following the law was the least Mike Pence could do on Jan. 6

Last weekend, Mike Pence unleashed his anger at Donald Trump.“History will hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6,” Pence declared at the Gridiron Dinner, a normally jovial event for prominent journalists. “Make no mistake about it: What happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks ...