Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
When ‘Between the World and Me’ Faced a School Book Ban, Ta-Nehisi Coates Decided to Report It Out. By Ta-Nehisi Coates / Vanity Fair
Nixon Fought a War on Drugs He Knew Was Unjust. By Brent Staples / NYT
Benny Golson, jazz saxophonist and composer of surpassing grace, dies at 95. By matt Schudel / Wash Post
I see Howard of the 1980s in Kamala Harris. By Carla Hall / Wash Post
The N.B.A. Is Partnering With a Repressive Regime. By Stanis Elsborg / NYT
Reggie Bush lawsuit: RB sues USC, NCAA, Pac-12 over unearned NIL money. By Craig Meyer / USA Today
Tyreek Hill retains counsel for legal battle after police detainment. By Safid Deen / USA Today
A third of former NFL players surveyed believe they have CTE, researchers find. By Becky Sullivan / NPR
Mercury Morris, who helped Dolphins win two Super Bowls, dies at 77. By AP and Wash Post
Why do people still back Trump, after everything? 5 things to understand about MAGA supporters’ thinking. By Alex Hinton / The Conversation
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 7) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured The One Thing Not Named Trump That Trump Cares About. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (Oct 3) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured “Pride paradox”: Sociologist Arlie Hochschild on Trump’s manipulation of white working class voters. By Chauncey Devega / Salon (Image WAMU)
Harris Hits Core Campaign Themes in Emotional Forum With Oprah Winfrey. By Erica L. Green / NYT
The Trump Guide to Civil Discourse. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT (Image Seattle Times)
Mark Robinson Is a Poster. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Pro-Trump Georgia Election Board Invites Chaos By Requiring Hand Count Of Ballots. By Matt Shuham / HuffPost
Under Georgia’s Abortion Ban, She Died After Delayed Care. By Kavitha Surana / ProPublica
Jonathan Holloway Was Far More Than Rutgers’s First Black President. By Jim Sleeper / TNR
The Haitian Question. By Roxane Gay / The New Yorker
Israel’s Pager Bombs Have No Place in a Just War. By Michael Walzer / NYT
Washington and the West struggle for a way forward with Putin’s Russia. By Robyn Dixon and Michael Birnbaum / Wash Post
J.D. Vance and the Rise of the ‘Postliberal’ Catholics. By Sarah Jones / New York Intelligencer
What you might miss in news coverage about Latino voters and faith. By Aleja Hertzler-McCain / RNS
A bold guide to confronting racism in white Christianity. RNS Press Release
200 Christian leaders across denominations call defending democracy a ‘test of faith.’ By Jack Jenkins / RNS
An extraordinary new history of Emmett Till, Mississippi and America. Review by Aram Goudsouzian / Wash Post
The Influence Of Black Culture On The 2024 Election. By NewsOne Staff / NewsOne
Why Earth, Wind & Fire’s ‘September’ sustains. By Dan Charnas / NPR
Aces’ A’ja Wilson becomes second unanimous MVP in WNBA history. By Michael Voepel / ESPN
Deion Sanders, Colorado survive wild game: `God answered the prayer.’ By Brent Schrotenboer / USA Today
