Pierre Atlas: I will vote to return to normalcy
I will be voting against Trump, but I will also be voting for Biden.
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Letter: On political parties and student-loan debt
Regarding Pierre Atlas’ column in Forefront, my Republican friends are proud to point out how instrumental Republicans were to the passage of major Civil Rights legislation in the 1960s, ignoring the subsequent history of that party under Nixon.
Pierre Atlas: How Voting Rights Act changed our political parties
Fifty-five years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Before that, Americans of all races had risked their lives trying to help African Americans exercise their right to vote.
Pierre Atlas: America’s first pro-Russia president
Trump’s most recent actions have actually rewarded Putin and supported Russia’s geopolitical goals.
Pierre Atlas: Yes, systemic racism and white privilege exist
Only African Americans have lived with nearly four centuries of the law being used not to protect rights but to suppress an entire people based on their race.
Pierre Atlas: Leaders matter. On coronavirus, Trump is a failed leader.
Trump is arguably the only president in American history who lacks the capacity to feel empathy—or even the ability to fake it.
Pierre Atlas: Super Tuesday’s political earthquake
In the coming weeks and months, we might discover that The Establishment turns out to be the bulk of the Democratic voters.
Pierre Atlas: The Founders are spinning in their graves
Can anyone say with a straight face that these Republicans would have voted ‘not guilty’ had President Obama done the exact same things as Trump?
Pierre Atlas: Senators, your duty is to the Constitution
Many Republican members of the legislative branch are acting as if their job is to protect the leader of the executive branch.
Pierre Atlas: The existential question of Israel’s Arab minority
Israel’s Arab minority does not enjoy the same socioeconomic opportunities or civic equality with the Jewish majority.
Pierre Atlas: On guns, the political winds may be shifting
While the Constitution guarantees a right to firearms ownership, no right is absolute, not even the right to bear arms.”
Pierre Atlas: America’s transportation infrastructure falls short
Major cities in every European country I have visited have some sort of light rail and are connected to one another by train.
Letter: Eliminate gun-free zones
Gun-free zones are considered to be “soft targets.” Deranged shooters are attracted to them because they will be able to get their 15 minutes of fame before they are stopped.
Pierre Atlas: Court right to reject citizenship question for census
The purpose of the census is not to divide citizen from non-citizen, but to count every person.
Pierre Atlas: Let’s focus on who has access to guns
People who commit domestic violence, make public threats of violence, or demonstrate suicidal tendencies should, with due process, be disarmed.
Pierre Atlas: More than a great man—a truly good one
I could never bring myself to call him by his first name. To me, he will always be “Sen. Lugar.”
Pierre Atlas: U.S. can’t emulate New Zealand’s crackdown on guns
We have formal separation of powers and constitutional checks and balances, a republican form of government that was designed to restrain the passions of the majority.
Pierre Atlas: Let’s have an honest debate about socialism
Sweden is a prime example of the hybrid political-economic system known as the social democratic welfare state.
Voters had enough
I could sum up my disgust after reading Pierre Atlas’ IBJ column [“It’s about how you play the game,” Feb. 8] in a single sentence, but then I would be discounted as just another “Trumper.” Donald Trump had no reason to take this job, except for the fact that the country was moving toward socialism […]
Pierre Atlas: It’s about how you play the game
Congressional members of the party Trump now leads have largely abdicated their duty to protect our constitutional system.