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Time: Political Incorrectness Is Just a Strategy
According to many politicians, America has a life-threatening illness more deadly than the Zika and Ebola viruses combined. Its name: political correctness. Since the early 1990s, politically correct has been the go-to phrase to whip...
Time: The Khans Should Be America’s Wake-Up Call
Khizr Khan’s impassioned speech last week at the Democratic National Convention about the heroics of his Muslim-American son didn’t just shame Donald Trump’s crude lack of American values—it reminded us of a quaint concept that...
Time: Athletes Aren’t Dumb Jocks—We’re the Face of Change
As someone involved with professional sports for most of my life, I’m gratified to see that pro athletes and sports organizations are finally being embraced as leaders against social injustice. Wednesday night, NBA players Carmelo...
Time: There Is Terror on Both Sides of the Badge
I’ve often explained my passion for history to my friends by quoting American philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” The events of the past have the power...
Time: What ‘Game of Thrones’ Says About Our Election Nightmares
The last two episodes of Game of Thrones serve as a perfect parallel of the meh attitude of a majority of Americans toward our presidential choices: one brought back from the dead (of 2008) and the other...
Time: Trump and ISIS Depend on Irrationality
“We are deranged,” laments the narrator of Karl Shapiro’s poem “Auto Wreck” as he stands with other rattled witnesses beside a bloody car accident. “Our throats were tight as tourniquets,/Our feet were bound with splints.”...
Time: Muhammad Ali Became a Big Brother to Me—and to All African-Americans
When I first met Muhammad Ali, he was performing magic tricks on Hollywood Boulevard. I was a freshman at UCLA walking along the street with two of my school buddies when we saw him strolling...
Time: The Paradox of Being a Black Role Model
The U.S. president and a prima ballerina. Throw in a rabbi and a priest and you’ve got the start of a classic watercooler joke. But add first black American President and first black female principal...
