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e're not southern enough to be yes, ma'am or no, sir, but I try to nudge manners into my kids' daily interactions with strangers. Today, I nudged him when I saw two women cross the parking lot and asked him to open the restaurant door. One of the women was older and one much younger, maybe a ...

How race, politics and sports intersect

Toward the end of the spring semester, I sent a final email to students in my ÎÞëÊÓÆµ Icons class at Ohio State University's Lima campus regarding the NAACP's proposed boycott urging Black football players to avoid attending Power 4 conference schools in Southern states that have redrawn their ...

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The Democratic Socialists of America has a class problem that its own rhetoric is designed to obscure. Its rising stars -- Zohran Mamdani, son of a Columbia professor and an acclaimed filmmaker; the Ivy-credentialed activists staffing progressive nonprofits; the heirs animating the movement's ...

Billionaire progressive activist and California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer recently remarked: "Health care companies only care about one thing: profits. Single-payer now." This is the same Tom Steyer who opposed single-payer when he ran for president in 2020. "Bernie Sanders was right," ...

When artists canceled their performances for President Donald Trump's June 25 Great American State Fair, one stood out for me: Martina McBride. The first time I saw Martina live in concert was at the Taste of Cincinnati festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Memorial Day Weekend in 1994. Her iconic ...