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Lots of frauds since Oct. 7, but also leaders

What began last Oct. 7 with the invasion of Israel by 6,000 Hamas gunmen bent on slaughtering Jews has reached the one-year mark, with Hezbollah, another heavily armed and genocidal enterprise, firing thousands of missiles at Israeli civilians. The left has largely whitewashed or defended Hamas’ and Hezbollah’s attempts at genocide while accusing their victims of committing one. This much is clear: All too many, professing to be “progressives,” have spent the past year preening for those who believe that the massacre of Israelis is fundamentally A-OK. Spineless or morally lost, ...

Demagoguery hurts hurricane relief efforts

An underwater arts district. Health-care workers and patients stranded on hospital rooftops. Isolated residents pointing mirrors at the sky to catch rescue helicopters’ attention. The tragic scenes from Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction are nothing short of heartbreaking. In the week and a half since it made landfall, subjecting coastlines across the Southeast to storm surges and downpours, the tempest struck forcefully where few expect such events: inland, high in the Blue Ridge mountains. Consequently, even “ climate haven ” cities such as Asheville, N.C., felt the ...

Black clergy speak out for Israel

On Monday, Oct. 7, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, co-hosted with Michigan Lighthouse Ministries a press conference with more than 50 pastors from across the State of Michigan, noting the atrocities committed last year by Hamas terrorists against Israeli citizens and expressing solidarity with the State of Israel. We chose a church in the state of Michigan for this program because Michigan is home to the largest Arab American population in the country. It is also home to Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the only Palestinian American representative in the House of ...

Waiting rooms have become a wasteland

Waiting rooms have become a wasteland. I travel it with the same promised oasis in my hand, catching up on emails or scrolling through social media. However, I still like to peek up and look around to see who else might have drunk enough from the fountains that allow us to forget about the desert around us. As someone who lives in an actual desert and is underprivileged in melanin, trips to the dermatologist are part of the routine. After the cancer they found years ago didn’t redevelop, exams went from every six months to yearly. That’s enough time for a medical practice to get ...

Free speech in the crosshairs

The most consequential issue on the ballot this November is the fate of free speech: your ability to speak your mind. At former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk leaped on the stage and urged the nation to support Trump. It’s “the bedrock of democracy,” Musk said, warning that “the other side wants to take away your freedom of speech.” That’s true. Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, want government and its proxies to muzzle us, limiting what we can post on social media, and censuring whatever ...

Would GOP survive Trump’s defeat?

If Donald Trump loses the election, to hear him and his campaign tell it, the fate of the Republican Party should be the least of our concerns: his defeat would spell the end of the nation itself and all that we hold dear. But let’s assume that Trump and company are exaggerating and that the country continues to exist. What would the GOP look like after he loses — again? This scenario seems to be getting a lot of attention lately, perhaps because Trump himself has been emphasizing that if he loses — again — it will be because of fraud — again. Such rhetoric does not exude ...