The problem is not nominating a Black woman to replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. There are plenty of qualified legal scholars who are Black and female. The problem is making a big announcement that only Black women need apply.

The tendency is to forget monstrous events as other stories take their place. Recent police killings in New York, Harris County, Texas, and elsewhere must not be forgotten, lest they become more common and public safety is further compromised. Ultimately, it is up to voters to put people in office who will do more than offer “thoughts and prayers.”

We all should be mindful that Glenn Youngkin won the governorship by only two points. The culture war may not quite be the free lunch Republicans think is.

Our current immigration system imposes trauma on good and decent people. I have personally watched families experience the agony of living with uncertainty in legal limbo. The human costs alone are reason enough to provide a path to earned legal status and citizenship.

Most agree that the Ecological Reserve System needs to be expanded. So, what’s stopping that? In the original 2000 legislation to create the system, an arbitrary cap was placed on total acreage. It’s time to remove that limit.

China’s calculating communist-imperialists dominate 21st century empire-building in sub-Saharan African.

Winning the argument is better than never-ending arguments. We know what works and what is not working. Let’s apply that knowledge and experience. It would get the country out of debt and shrink the overreach of government, contributing to more liberty, not less, as seems to be what we are currently experiencing.