VOICES

COMMENTARY - For all the doom and gloom about China taking over American culture at all levels, and a younger generation that has grown up with Tik Tok and a China-controlled media since at least 2012, there is reason for hope that the American spirit persists.

RANDOM LENGTHS NEWS - Coal miners are like longshore workers in that they’re tribal in nature. Distinctions are made  based on how many generations your family has been a part of the profession and successive generations of children are raised to live, work and eventually die the way their fathers had — in the mines. Trumka was no different.

A VIEW FROM HERE - The Declaration of Independence based the nation on individual inalienable rights and rejected any type of Group Rights. 

VIEW FROM HERE - The youngsters among us probably do not remember the time when excellence was essential to the fabric of American Life. 

CAPITAL & MAIN - Over the summer, three members of the Congressional Black Caucus — Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), and Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) — have been arrested at the U.S. Capitol while demanding action on two voting rights laws.

CLIMATE CHANGE - Ida was a fierce Category 4 hurricane when it came ashore Sunday in Louisiana. With sustained winds of about 150 mph, the storm ripped roofs off buildings and snapped power poles.

COMMENTARY-Just yesterday, Colonel S.P. Scheller tendered his resignation in a public letter to the Secretary of the Navy, citing “a lack of trust and confidence in your ability to lead.” (See below)

CAPITAL & MAIN-Flor Martinez, a Texas poultry plant worker, devours painkillers at the end of her grueling shifts.

THE ROOT - On Monday, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib became the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

SENIOR MOMENTS - That link between age and wisdom — is it just a joke?

COVID WATCH - I’m feeling like a sitting duck these days, as are the other members of my family.

POLITICS IN RELIGION - A pastor in New York City is attracting people to his church with the promise of religious exemption letters to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, spurring a chicken-and-egg debate on religious exemptions: which comes first, the desire to break a law or the “sincerely held religious belief” used to justify that desire?