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Here’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates got right

The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has gotten far more attention than he deserves for his new book, “The Message,” which contains a blistering condemnation of Israel. The response from Israel’s defenders has been equally and deservedly blistering. The heart of their criticism is pretty simple: Coates doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He visited Israel for 10 days on a literary junket run by critics of Israel and returned to write, by his own account, a one-sided, wholly impressionistic indictment of the country. When I say by his own account, I mean it. Coates insists that he ...

Harris targeting Black men with giveaways

Vice President Kamala Harris is rushing to fix a growing hole in her support: Black men. She’s buying votes with thinly veiled, taxpayer-funded giveaways. Your tax dollars will pay for “fully forgivable” $20,000 loans for businesses. And worse, she’s targeting Black men with these giveaways, as if no one else deserves to participate in her “opportunity economy.” If you’re having trouble growing your business, and you’re white — male or female — will you be eligible? Sounds unlikely. That’s blatant discrimination, immoral and unconstitutional. Yet not a murmur ...

President Obama to the rescue

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”- Joe Biden on “The Breakfast Club,” 2020 “We have not yet seen the same kinds of energy and turnout in all quarters of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running.”- Barack Obama, last week The condescension inherent in these remarks is one reason why especially young Black men are moving away from the Democratic Party to which Blacks have been joined at the hip since the Franklin Roosevelt administration. This kind of tribal “group think” is designed to ...

Warming comes for Florida’s economy

Florida was the future. The weather’s balmy in winter, the beaches are divine and there’s no personal income tax. All that and a lower cost of living had set off a sizeable migration of companies from New York, Chicago and California. Between 2021 and 2023, Florida was the fastest-growing state. Now as a second monster hurricane in two weeks smashes the western coast, many Floridians have been turned into serial refugees. Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny. We ...

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 ...