Leonard Pitts: America no longer lives in an unpresidented time

Leonard Pitts

Published
January 20, 2021

Leonard Pitts: America no longer lives in an unpresidented time

Joe Biden will bring back something I once took for granted: He understands his duty to exhort us to vision and courage.
Published
January 13, 2021

Leonard Pitts: Don’t let the traitors – including Trump – off the hook

Calls for unity should not come before genuine repentance and accountability.
Published
January 6, 2021

Leonard Pitts: After a year of reading books only by women, I’m a richer man for it

My bias had deprived me of whole vistas of discovery. And if you choose to see in that a broader lesson, I won’t argue.
Published
December 9, 2020

Leonard Pitts: On John Lennon, war and Christmas during a pandemic

Despite 2020, or maybe because of it, the humanity of the season endures.
Published
December 2, 2020

Leonard Pitts: It’s time for the media to break our addiction to Donald Trump

Cover him when something truly newsworthy happens, but after Jan. 20, let’s lose the habit of recording his every gripe and tweet.
Published
November 25, 2020

Leonard Pitts: Any Republican unwilling to defy Trump is unworthy of the label ‘patriot’

The silence that has greeted the president’s subversion of democracy is an astonishing display of gutlessness.
Published
November 18, 2020

Leonard Pitts: When it comes to COVID, truth will get the final word

Even some dying patients deny that the virus exists, a South Dakota ER nurse says.
Published
November 11, 2020

Leonard Pitts: Who’s going to tell the president that he has no clothes?

Sycophants are more worried about bruising the presidential ego than they are about getting him to face facts.
Published
November 4, 2020

Leonard Pitts: Springsteen realizes the once-‘hungry heart’ will one day stop beating

In a new album and documentary, he embraces the moral of 2020: Life is short, so seize joy where you find it.
Published
October 28, 2020

Leonard Pitts: Jared Kushner was born rich and white. Now he’s lecturing Blacks

The advice on achieving success is hard to take from someone who started out on third base and thinks he hit a triple.