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RENÉE GRAHAM
How Tina Turner helped Black girls and women feel free
The iconic performer followed no path but her own and gave many of us the courage to do the same.
SCOT LEHIGH
Ron DeSantis’s ill-conceived campaign
The Florida governor tries to take on Trump without offending MAGA.
Joan Wickersham
Don’t call my breasts ‘boobs.’ It’s degrading.
The tone of the word “boobs” is jaunty and jokey and a little bit tough: women taking back and wielding a word that was once used to demean us. But the word is still degrading.
Lydia Edwards
Rachael Rollins is a flawed messenger but her message is not
We must look past her to the policies she advocates and measure those policies against ongoing challenges.
SCOT LEHIGH
Dan Payne, a political consultant in a league of his own
Millions of Americans have no doubt chuckled over a Payne TV spot, for Dan used humor to clarifying effect in political ads that imparted both a laugh and a message.
JEFF JACOBY
There is no ‘14th Amendment option’ to raise the debt ceiling
It will take an act of Congress to set a new borrowing limit — and it will take good faith negotiation to pass an act of Congress.
Hugh Courtney
An Alzheimer’s drug is slowing my disease, but Medicare and Medicaid won’t cover it
The fact that most people cannot access these treatment breakthroughs dulls the brighter future offered by these treatments.