Opinion

America Says Haiti Is Too Dangerous for Its Citizens. It Is Deporting Haitians There Anyway.

The State Department tells Americans not to travel to Haiti for any reason. With Temporary Protected Status gone, the U.S. is sending hundreds of Haitians back to the same violence, and that contradiction demands a better answer.

Marijuana Is Becoming Mainstream. Why Are We Still Criminalizing People for Possessing It?

Cannabis is now an accepted commercial product across much of America, yet Texas still criminalizes recreational possession. That contradiction is harder to defend when decades of enforcement data show Black Americans have borne most of the consequences.

Stop Asking Why Black Men Don’t Vote. Ask Why Nobody Is Listening.

More than 600,000 eligible Black voters sat out Ohio’s 2022 midterms. New reporting suggests the problem is more complicated than apathy. It involves economic pressure, broken trust and a political system that shows up in Black communities mostly when it needs their votes.

Andre Williams Called Two Black Commentators “House Negroes.” That Isn’t Accountability.

On Piers Morgan Uncensored, the provocative commentator called Marc Lamont Hill and Brandon Tatum "house Negroes." The line says less about either man than about where criticism ends and stereotype begins.

The Cornell 7 and the Privilege of Being Treated as Individuals

The Cornell case has become a test of due process, sexual-assault accountability and institutional responsibility. It also exposes something less discussed: prestige can determine who gets treated as an individual when allegations become national news.

Is It Ethical to Call Yourself a Lawyer If You Never Passed the Bar?

The controversy surrounding White House press secretary Katie Zacharia raises a broader question about professional titles: when does a degree or honor justify the title that comes with it, and when does the title communicate credentials a person does not actually possess?

A City Is Allowed to Outgrow Its Traditions

There is an understandable instinct to protect the things that make a city recognizable. New York has yellow taxis, brownstones, Broadway marquees, hot dog carts and, for more than 150 years, horse-drawn carriages circling Central Park. Tourists recognize them before they ever arrive. Movies helped turn them into shorthand for romance in New York. But longevity is not the same thing as justification. Sometimes the hardest part of preserving a city’s identity is accepting that not everything from its past deserves to follow it into its future.

Black Solidarity Cannot Require Black Americans to Surrender Their Distinct History

An Essence essay calls for unity across the Black diaspora. But solidarity cannot require descendants of American slavery to surrender their distinct historical claims.

Guns Don’t Kill People. People Do. Then the Policy Has to Be About People.

A mass shooting in Erie and a deadly attack on Riyadh's airport landed on either side of World Mental Health Day. If the argument is about people, Pennsylvania still lacks one of the few laws built around them.

America Did Not Move Past Race. It Digitized the Conflict.

America’s racial tensions are no longer confined to institutions, neighborhoods or political movements. Social platforms, algorithms and automated accounts have built an infrastructure capable of turning resentment into community — and community into mobilization.

Atlanta Is What a Fractured Economy Looks Like

We keep asking whether America is in a recession. Atlanta’s eviction crisis suggests we may be asking the wrong question. The economy can keep growing while millions of households experience something that feels remarkably like contraction.

The Job Market Got Harder to Enter. Rooms Like AfroTech Are How People Build Their Own Way In.

Black unemployment rose to 7% in September as hiring stalled and AI reshaped which jobs exist. Conferences like AfroTech have become one of the few places where access, relationships and new paths are handed out at scale.

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Black Americans Are Drawing a Line Around Lineage. The Debate Is About More Than a Name.

Our Lives Are in the Cloud. The Risk Comes Home.

When Staying Current Becomes the Goal

AI Isn’t Just Replacing Jobs. It’s Rewriting What Companies Think Workers Are For.

RM’s SFMOMA Exhibition Puts a Collector’s Curiosity on View

We Keep Calling It a Skills Gap. What If Employers Just Stopped Training People?

Da’Vinchi Lost Followers After the Backlash. The Audience Is Becoming Part of the Consequence.

When the Store Disappears

Lil Wayne Is 44. His Fiancée Is 23. Why Does That Bother Us So Much?

The Men Who Held the Family Are Leaving. Now We Have to Decide What We Carry Forward.

You Can Retire the Acronym. You Can’t Retire the Evidence.

Dominican Republic Is Deporting Haitians While Pursuing Investment Grade