Leonard Pitts
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PublishedSeptember 28, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Let’s not be too smug about how Iran oppresses women
There is an understanding among men that women’s bodies are community property, ours to regulate, approve, criticize and use as we see fit.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2022
Leonard Pitts: None of this is about immigration
If you solve a problem, you can no longer exploit it. Leave it unsolved, and you can use it to rub raw the emotions of your target audience.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Can a nation in winter rally behind a common cause?
In announcing his Cancer Moonshot initiative, President Biden repeatedly invoked JFK – but the 35th president led a different America in a different time.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Trying to persuade Trump Republicans is a waste of time
For once, President Biden called it as he saw it. MAGA believers thought he was dreadfully unkind.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2022
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Introducing Captain Florida, the opportunist
In which a version of Gov. Ron DeSantis stands up to tolerance and punches it in the nose.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2022
Leonard Pitts Jr.: Bill Russell was ‘an arrogant Negro’ to the end
To speak up in the 1960s was dangerous – to livelihood and, conceivably, to life. Russell did it anyway. And kept doing it.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Let’s talk about the Nazi flags in Florida
The right is in denial. It bears repeating: Fascism is on our doorstep.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2022
Leonard Pitts: With democracy on the line, who cares how old Biden is?
Fresh disquiet over the president's advancing years misses the point, to put it lightly.
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PublishedJuly 6, 2022
Leonard Pitts: Celebrity convictions don’t mean justice for most
R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell may be headed to prison, but the vast majority of sexual assaults never show up in court.
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PublishedJune 29, 2022
Commentary: Progress is lurching in the wrong direction
Dobbs v. Jackson is not just a disappointing court ruling, it's an exercise of raw political power.
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