And again. And still. Nine people shot dead in Dayton, 13 hours after 22 shot dead in El Paso, six days after three shot dead in Gilroy. And tears and disbelief and funeral preparations, candlelight vigils and a search for meaning, and talking heads on cable news and T-shirts and hashtags touting resilience in the […]
Leonard Pitts
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Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist handcuffed after fake 911 call, authorities say
Leonard Pitts, a columnist for The Miami Herald, said police told him they had received a 911 call indicating that his wife or possibly another person was ‘being murdered.’
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2018, the year we lost ourselves
Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Of course not. As a year ticks into its final hours, old acquaintances are front of mind, sometimes painfully so. It lends a certain melancholy sweetness to the whole ritual. We mark a milestone reached, but we also remember all that we have lost along […]
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Intolerance can never be up for debate
Donald Trump is a man of famously definite opinions. Whether it be about Mexicans, Muslims or Mueller, he knows what he thinks and isn’t shy about sharing. So it was telling, one year ago this weekend, when he refused to take a stand. Meaning, of course, Charlottesville and the white supremacist rally that shocked that […]
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Democrats folded like a baby stroller
Dear Democrats: That was no government shutdown. It was a long weekend. It was a snow day. Don’t get me wrong. I am no fan of shuttering the federal government as a tactic of political negotiation. In the first place, it inflicts hardship on the people you’re sworn to serve. In the second place, it […]
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W. Dickerson: You can make a difference
As usual, Leonard Pitts found a way to move through the current crisis in the police forces of American cities and ask the right question — “What can I do?” (Sun Journal, April 30). Active citizenship is one answer. People can vote, speak up for what they believe is right, and give guidance to their […]
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Leonard Pitts: OK, terrorists, you win … wink, wink
Dear Terrorists: OK, you win. We surrender. Never thought I’d say that, but then, I never thought I’d see gunmen burst into the offices of a satirical magazine as happened last Wednesday in Paris. Never thought I’d see 12 people killed — most were employees, two were police officers — because a magazine published provocative […]
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Leonard Pitts: Beatles reshaped music, fashion, culture, politics
It’s an odd thing. Sometimes, when I speak before high school or college students, someone in the audience, knowing I began my professional life as a pop music critic, will ask what I think of music today. I always demur that I don’t listen to a lot of it, but that most of what I […]
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Leonard Pitts: Fulfillment is not found in the things we own
I like capitalism. Specifically, I like the idea that if I write a better book, have a better idea, build a better mousetrap, I will be rewarded accordingly. A system where everyone gets the same reward regardless of quality or quantity of work is inconsistent with excellence and innovation, as the mediocrity and inefficiency that […]