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抖阴ap: Secretary Deb Haaland is sure to enrage everyone. She should just embrace it.
The bad news that awaits former New Mexico Congresswoman Deb Haaland: it is guaranteed that almost every action she takes is going to make some people very angry. This, in...
Limerick: How careful is too careful after I’ve had my second COVID-19 vaccine?
Soon, when I am fully vaccinated, 鈥渂e very careful鈥� will begin to evolve into 鈥渂e a little less careful.鈥� But does that mean going to restaurants, visiting friends, traveling, or...
Limerick: Henry Adams predicted one day we’d badly need “safeguards.” McConnell just rejected them.
When the vote to convict former President Donald J. Trump fell short of a two-thirds majority, an impulse to escape the present -- by leaping into the future 鈥� took...
Guest Commentary: How pure patriotism could oust nationalism
As an alternative to fear, we offer a different vision entirely: we ask our fellow citizens to consider joining us in a preference for patriotism over nationalism.
Limerick: To save America we can’t just knock over the board game of life and go home
There are reasons to believe that the 2020 presidential election is tearing our nation in two. And there are also reasons to believe that Americans hold the power to refuse...
Limerick: Can Americans come together to find that “bright, bright, sunshiny day?”
Reggae artist Johnny Nash's song "I Can See Clearly Now" may feel like more of a mockery these days than an affirmation of faith. But after this columnist lost her...
Limerick: Search for high moral values at University of Colorado leads to fraternity leader
When these fraternities were called out for their misbehavior, the most forceful reprimand came from 22-year-old Adam Wenzlaff, a business major with an emphasis on finance, a member of Sigma...
Patty Limerick: Clearing the air of respiratory protest
Once upon a time, people used to assemble in lecture halls and auditoriums to hear a speaker. They would sit unimaginably close to one another, exhaling with abandon into each...
Limerick: Rectify the inherent failure of monuments
Recent limitations on access to hair stylists would not have troubled Medusa, the Greek Gorgon whose hair-do was actually a 鈥渟nake-do.鈥� Looking at Medusa was never a pleasure, but gazing...
Limerick: We have made progress since 1968. But, dear Lord, we still have a ways to go.
If my parents intended to protect me from the harsh realities of American life, space and time conspired to knock the pins out from under their plan.