In the shadow of Jan. 6 attack, Kevin McCarthy’s speaker vote circus on Capitol Hill only makes America look more vulnerable to the rest of the world.
Author: Connie Schultz, USA TODAY
How the Guardians, and SpongeBob, finally made me fall in love with Cleveland baseball
Cleveland’s baseball team has not won a World Series since 1948. This year turned out to be no different, except it is different in almost every way.
Knowing when it’s time to say goodbye, not because I don’t love – but because I do
In 1998, I bought a used upright piano for my daughter. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to feeling like I could fly. And now, it’s time to say goodbye
COVID-19 is still deadly real. Why do we allow disinformation to persist?
In the face of false, dangerous rhetoric, we don’t owe anyone silence. This is the truth: COVID is real and more than 1 million Americans have died.
‘I’m going to put a box around work’: That’s a country song waiting to happen
So much judgment-passing as the pandemic-induced resetting of workplace norms takes place. Can we remember these workers are real people?
‘There’s a diaper need, and I don’t know what to do’: A family in need is often just one job loss away
‘You need to tell that story, that one in 1 in 3 families cannot afford to keep their babies clean and dry.’ A diaper bank story.
Don’t look away from the 10 Black lives lost in Buffalo to racism and gun violence
The grocery store shooting is their tragedy, but this is America’s problem. Ignoring it won’t make racism go away or bring back loved ones.
Netflix’s ‘Inventing Anna’ is not my journalist life. But it does give me flashbacks.
Real journalists are not exactly who you’re seeing if you’re watching Netflix’s ‘Inventing Anna.’ But there are reminders of real newsrooms.
Longing for a return to ‘simpler times’? Here’s what the 1950s were like.
Nostalgia relies on fuzzy memories. Let’s refresh ours.
‘This is all we’ve ever known’ is not what our children should say about school shootings
Our kids know that, on any given day, at any school in America, a gunman can open fire and kill children. Who are we to let that be their reality?