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Guest Column: Republicans of color aren't standing up to racism

15.05.2024 40

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Trump's vileness on race is hardly new among Republicans

For almost a decade, Donald Trump has sent the Republican Party and much of the mainstream media into a political whirlwind. Trump’s bombastic...

26.04.2024 40

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Guest Column: What you might have forgotten about OJ Simpson and his trial

For those too young to fully remember the OJ Simpson trial, it was a television spectacle with all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster. Sex and...

20.04.2024 20

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Guest Column: Defending higher education against cynical politics

Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual...

13.04.2024 5

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Guest Column: Kamala Harris and the twin evils of 'Jim Crow and Jane Crow'

From the minute President Joe Biden selected her as his running mate, Kamala Harris has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Harris is often the...

04.04.2024 30

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Guest Column: Katie Britt and the cult of the kitchen

It was “The Stepford Wives” meets “The Handmaid’s Tale.” People are still talking about the State of the Union response given by Alabama...

22.03.2024 5

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: The creep of Christian nationalism

Historically viewed as a fringe belief system, Christian nationalism has become a considerable force in American politics, particularly as it relates...

15.03.2024 10

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Guest Column: Black voters aren't buying Trump's racial pandering

Being the ever-menacing carnival barker that he is, former president Donald Trump said the four criminal cases he faces have garnered him significant...

06.03.2024 20

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Guest Column: Women and the future of politics

It should probably come as little surprise that a majority of American millennial and Generation Z women identify as liberal. A Gallup Poll released...

24.02.2024 4

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Congressman shows we still have a long way to go on race

From the Duchess of Sussex and actress Meghan Markle to former Harvard President Claudine Gay to Vice President Kamala Harris, Black women have been...

21.02.2024 10

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Taylor Swift and the Republican love affair with conspiracy theories

Several years ago, Taylor Swift was far from the femme fatale some members of the MAGA far right now consider her to be. Many conservatives used to...

16.02.2024 10

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Historic Miss America sidesteps controversy

In news you might have missed, 22-year old Madison Marsh – a second lieutenant in the Air Force and master’s student at the Harvard Kennedy...

07.02.2024 20

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Historic Miss America sidesteps controversy

By Elwood Watson In news you might have missed, 22-year old Madison Marsh – a second lieutenant in the Air Force and master's student at the...

06.02.2024 20

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Guest Column: In his lust for power, Trump once again turns to xenophobia

In just the latest example of his tendency to employ passive-aggressive racially coded dog whistles, former President Donald Trump referred to...

30.01.2024 10

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

In his lust for power, Trump once again turns to xenophobia

by Elwood Watson, = In just the latest example of his tendency to employ passive-aggressive racially coded dog whistles, former President Donald Trump...

24.01.2024 7

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Guest Column: Trump and his dangerous ideas offer a mirror to too many

Donald Trump is on track to once again secure the Republican presidential nomination, as he did in 2016. No surprise here. Anxiety and weariness are...

24.01.2024 3

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: The real reason Republicans are cheering

Let’s talk about Claudine Gay, the first Black person and just the second woman to serve as Harvard University’s president, who resigned after...

16.01.2024 7

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: What's driving Nikki Haley?

Americans routinely plugged into the news cycle are aware of the fact that much ado was made about something (yes something) when Nikki Haley...

10.01.2024 20

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Generation X is almost 60

Latchkey kids. Slackers. Caffeine lovers. Grunge. That’s how a lot of people have referred to Generation X, the 46 million Americans, like myself,...

04.01.2024 20

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: When Trump says he'll be a dictator, believe him

The late author Maya Angelou once stated, “When people show you who they are, believe them.” Nowhere is that saying more applicable than the...

20.12.2023 6

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: The continued hypocrisy of so-called family values conservatives

Do as I say, not as I do. This sort of Victorian philosophy seems to be par for the course among many of the so-called family values conservatives....

13.12.2023 7

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: The end of the Republican Party

Waterloo. The apocalypse. The Titanic. These are just some of the terms observers are employing to describe the current state of the Republican party....

09.12.2023 3

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Elwood Watson

The end of the Republican Party

BY ELWOOD WATSON Waterloo. The apocalypse. The Titanic. These are just some of the terms observers are employing to describe the current state of the...

06.12.2023 6

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Guest Column: Congress has become a wrestling ring

Thought the level of civil discourse in Congress could not get any worse? Guess what, it has! It now appears America’s top legislative body has...

25.11.2023 20

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Elwood Watson

Congress has become a wrestling ring

By Elwood Watson Thought the level of civil discourse in Congress could not get any worse? Guess what, it has! It now appears America's top...

22.11.2023 5

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: For Republicans, it's deja vu all over again

18.11.2023 40

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Elwood Watson

For Republicans, it's deja vu all over again

By Elwood Watson The ghost of political déjà vu revisited the Republican Party last week, with the GOP suffering humiliating defeats in virtually...

15.11.2023 8

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Israel and free speech at our nation's universities

Debates over free speech have deeply immersed themselves into the fabric of our culture over the past few years. Wild and sharp finger-pointing has...

11.11.2023 8

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

Israel and free speech at our nation's universities

By Elwood Watson Debates over free speech have deeply immersed themselves into the fabric of our culture over the past few years. Wild and sharp...

08.11.2023 6

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Matt Gaetz is right about the new Republican Speaker

Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected speaker of the House, is the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history. That Matt Gaetz is so...

02.11.2023 3

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

Matt Gaetz is right about the new Republican Speaker

By Elwood Watson Rep. Mike Johnson, the newly elected speaker of the House, is the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history. That...

01.11.2023 6

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: A really, really bad week for Trump's election lies

Well, well, well... look at what’s transpired in Trump World over the past few days. Two of Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders have decided to...

26.10.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

A really, really bad week for Trump's election lies

By Elwood Watson Well, well, well... look at what's transpired in Trump World over the past few days. Two of Donald Trump's most ardent defenders have...

25.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Republicans have their own war to contend with

The nation and much of the world is reeling from the horrific and unsettling events that have occurred between Israel and Hamas. There’s also a war...

20.10.2023 1

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Elwood Watson

Republicans have their own war to contend with

By Elwood Watson The nation and much of the world is reeling from the horrific and unsettling events that have occurred between Israel and Hamas....

18.10.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: History in the House

Oct. 3, 2023, will go down in American history as the first time a Speaker of the House was expelled from Congress by his own peers. Kevin McCarthy, a...

14.10.2023 6

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Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Academic freedom is under assault in America

Those of us who work in academia understand that academic freedom represents the cornerstone of successful colleges and universities. It epitomizes...

05.10.2023 2

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Elwood Watson

Academic freedom is under assault in America

By Elwood Watson Those of us who work in academia understand that academic freedom represents the cornerstone of successful colleges and universities....

28.09.2023 2

El Dorado News Times

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: The puppet of the House

Get your popcorn ready, because a gut-wrenching level of drama has gripped the House of Representatives! To quote Democratic minority leader Hakeem...

21.09.2023 2

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Black women deserve better

Malcolm X said it best in a 1962 speech: “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the...

16.09.2023 5

Yuma Sun

Elwood Watson

Guest Column: Why should we care if a politician is unmarried?

It appears some Republican donors are really concerned that presidential candidate Tim Scott, South Carolina’s junior senator, is a 57-year-old...

09.09.2023 1

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Elwood Watson

Why should we care if a politician is unmarried?

By Elwood Watson It appears some Republican donors are really concerned that presidential candidate Tim Scott, South Carolina's junior senator, is a...

09.09.2023 2

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