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PublishedSeptember 17, 2021
Our View: Honor the U.S. Constitution by amending it
The most cherished constitutional rights came by way of amendment, something we have not been able to do for 50 years.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2021
Commentary: The European disease that’s mutated through the Black Death and COVID
As the biological virus attacks bodies, the mental virus of anti-Semitism infects hearts and cultures where hatred has never ceased to be endemic.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2021
Our View: Coronavirus pandemic edges toward grim milestone
For more than a century, the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was the deadliest in our history, a record that will soon be broken by COVID.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
Leonard Pitts: Sept. 11 changed us – but not for the better
The terrorists succeeded beyond their dreams in inflicting damage on this country.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2021
Insight: ‘Forever war’ started long before Afghanistan
The era of American military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia to support undemocratic and corrupt regimes started with Lebanon in 1958.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2021
Leonard Pitts: We’re still marching for what already should be ours
On the March on Washington’s anniversary, let’s channel the energy of the man who never ceased demanding that America be what America said it was.
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PublishedAugust 25, 2021
Commentary: How this enslaved man’s story could persuade more Black Americans to get vaccinated
Highlighting the historic role of an African man named Onesimus, who introduced the idea of inoculation in early America, offers a source of pride.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
Insight: America’s reckoning with Indian boarding schools
When coming to terms with the history of a destructive policy, the nation needs to be guided by accountability, not pity.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
This 1800s doctor’s orders were deadly
'The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream' re-creates the homicidal doctor's heartless life in short, highly dramatic chapters.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2021
Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.
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