Opinion Columns

Black History Is Defended by Those Willing To Preserve It
Holding Space for Good, Feb. 20, 2026
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. While we celebrate this milestone, we are also grappling with efforts to remove or revise Black history in the classroom as well as the exhibits found at federal parks and museums.

'Deplorables' Were So Right About the Elite -- but So Wrong About Trump
The Raffel Ticket, Feb. 18, 2026
In 2016, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton found herself in hot water after declaring that half of Trump's supporters were "a basket of deplorables.

Don't Turn the Epstein Files Into MeToo
Ian Haworth, Feb. 17, 2026
In recent years, public trust in American institutions has collapsed, and understandably so, given the overt politicization of supposedly objective fields such as medicine and education — you know, The Science. Me