In announcing his Cancer Moonshot initiative, President Biden repeatedly invoked JFK – but the 35th president led a different America in a different time.
Leonard Pitts
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Leonard Pitts: Trying to persuade Trump Republicans is a waste of time
For once, President Biden called it as he saw it. MAGA believers thought he was dreadfully unkind.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Introducing Captain Florida, the opportunist
In which a version of Gov. Ron DeSantis stands up to tolerance and punches it in the nose.
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bill Russell was ‘an arrogant Negro’ to the end
To speak up in the 1960s was dangerous – to livelihood and, conceivably, to life. Russell did it anyway. And kept doing it.
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Leonard Pitts: Let’s talk about the Nazi flags in Florida
The right is in denial. It bears repeating: Fascism is on our doorstep.
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Leonard Pitts: With democracy on the line, who cares how old Biden is?
Fresh disquiet over the president’s advancing years misses the point, to put it lightly.
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Leonard Pitts: Celebrity convictions don’t mean justice for most
R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell may be headed to prison, but the vast majority of sexual assaults never show up in court.
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Commentary: Progress is lurching in the wrong direction
Dobbs v. Jackson is not just a disappointing court ruling, it’s an exercise of raw political power.
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Leonard Pitts: Trump loyalists learn the hard way that they’ve been had
The Jan. 6 committee has revealed that Trump raised $250 million after the 2020 election for a bogus legal defense fund.
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Leonard Pitts: The Janes: ‘We thought it was over’
A documentary tells how far we have come from the days of illegal abortion and where we may be headed.