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What was the IRS thinking?

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Well, this is a fine mess. After years of moaning about various "conspiracies" against them, conservative activists finally have a real (i.e., not manufactured by Fox or inflated by Rush Limbaugh) piece of evidence to take before the court of public...

In Texas, black means future danger

2013-05-05 04:00:00

If the state of Texas executes Duane Buck, it'll be because he is black. Well, mainly it will be because in 1995, he shot his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, and her friend, Kenneth Butler, to death at Gardner's Houston home, and also wounded his own...

Not even the Boston bombing can unite a fractured America

2013-04-28 03:00:00

Ordinarily, I'd thank you for writing. But truth is, I am not grateful you wrote; your note last week was one of the more troubling things I have read. I do not blame you for leaving it unsigned. "We stand together," I had written. "We stand defiant....

Ignoring the real while fighting the imaginary

2013-05-05 04:00:00

It should've been the shot heard around the world. Chances are, you didn't hear it. An ominous sort of history was made last week near Austin, Texas, but it seems to have largely escaped notice. There was some media coverage, yes, but less than, say,...

Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard

2013-04-21 04:00:00

Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Mr. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all....

'Accidental Racist,' willful ignorance

2013-04-14 04:00:00

There are many things to say about Brad Paisley's new song. The country music giant is under fire for "Accidental Racist," about a Starbucks employee who objects to Mr. Paisley's Confederate battle flag shirt. The song, Mr. Paisley's attempt to...

With coaching carousel, Terps' Spinelli could get his chance

2013-04-12 08:54:00

It happens after every college basketball season -- head coaches get dismissed, new ones get hired. Those on the hot seat feel angst. Assistant coaches are quietly hopeful that their time to lead a program has arrived. The players in this this year&...

Progress undone on rape

2013-04-07 04:00:00

What we have here is a failure to communicate. Or at least, that's Rick Ross' story and he's sticking to it. The Miami rapper has ignited a prairie fire of controversy with a song called "U.O.E.N.O.," its title a phonetic spelling of an ebonic...

Vindicating Martin Luther King's prophecy

2013-04-04 06:50:00

A few words on the death of Elwin Wilson. He passed last week in a South Carolina hospital at age 76. Wilson had endured heart and lung problems and had suffered a recent bout with the flu. There is little reason you would know his name, but as a...

A thirst-quenching blow for freedom

2013-03-12 15:17:00

Perhaps you remember when Dr. Doom conquered the world. Or perhaps you don't. Sadly enough, even in this day and age, not everyone is comic book literate. Suffice it to say, then, that back in the 1980s, Marvel Comics published a graphic novel in...

Bitter tears for Easter

2013-03-31 03:00:00

Jonylah Watkins died on a Tuesday. She was with her father, who was sitting in a minivan in Chicago on the night of March 11 when someone opened fire. Doctors worked 17 hours trying to repair what a bullet had done to her body, but to no avail. She died...

What would it cost to get a real human to answer the phone?

2013-03-29 03:00:00

Dear Whomever is in Charge of Customer Service for DirecTV: All I wanted was to watch the game. I was back in my hotel room after a long day, and I figured, what better way to unwind? Now, the game wasn't available on the hotel channels, but I've...

-Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez appears at the Freedom Tower in Miami, where she spoke and received an award from Miami Dade College, next to The Miami Herald reporter Miriam Marquez, left, on Monday April 1, 2013.

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Alberto Ibarg�en, Wesleyan Class of '66, is the President and CEO of journalism training school and think tank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Ibarg�en is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald.

2013-01-08 13:24:00

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