Do not show us the candlelit crucifixes dressed in flowers. Or class photos of smiling faces full of innocence. Do not show us the grieving families. “Her smile could light up a room.” Or tell us their stories. “He wanted to be a police officer.” We already know these kids…

San Diego police officers encountered Lance Tamayo, a reportedly suicidal man, around noon in August 2014. The police tried to negotiate with him. They offered Mr. Tamayo counseling and pleaded with him to surrender. …

Talk show host Bill Maher recently defended calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus.” Maher’s argument was unoriginal: “When they named Lyme disease after a town in Connecticut, the locals didn’t get all ticked off?” Chinese is an ethnicity. Imagine if we referred to Lyme Disease as the “white disease,” given…

A woman called my name from across the room. I recognized the urgency in her voice. It signaled an emergency, and she rightly expected me to do something. Next to her was an unresponsive body surrounded by a sea of onlookers. Time slowed. Then, all at once, I could not…

A few days after the celebration of the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., another king fell. NBA legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California. He died along with his teenage daughter, Gianna, and several others. Initially, I did not believe the reports about Bryant’s…

Martin Luther King, Jr. was once called the “most notorious liar in the country” by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover’s negative opinion of King was not unique. A Gallup poll shows that over 60 percent of the public disapproved of King during the mid-1960s. Public disapproval of King did…

On January 1, 2020, Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which is often called the “heartbeat” bill, will take effect. The law bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can be six weeks into a pregnancy. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and…

President Trump called for an end to “ridiculous partisan investigations” during his latest State of the Union address. It reminded me of the private investigation into President Obama’s citizenship he claimed that he began in 2011. Last year, I listened to President Trump talk about a growing and “dangerous anti-police…

It is possible that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when they were both teenagers in the 1980s. It is also possible that Dr. Ford’s allegation of sexual assault is mistaken or, worse, completely made-up. The most compelling arguments seem to be based on who people believe…