Pearl River I didn’t want to do this, but I did it for all of you. I read the New York Times conservative columnist faceoff on Ron DeSantis by Ross Douthat and Nikki Haley by David Brooks, as they prepare readers for the Iowa beatdown in the Republican primary caucuses by former President Trump. …
Category: Policy
Let’s Stop the Floridization of Arkansas!
New Orleans The early months of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ tenure as governor of Arkansas have been marked by both confusion and consternation. Sometimes she seems confused and believes she is still former President Trump’s press secretary and trying to sell alternative facts and fantasy as if reality. Other times she seems to think …
America’s Race Problem Keeps Getting Worse
Pearl River Living in the South, it is easy to become self-deluded about race. Public and private spaces seem more normalized and less strained than they were many decades ago in restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations, and the like, at least in the majority Black city where I live. Don’t get me wrong. Racism …