GUEST OPINIONS

Michele Norris’s Race Card Project asked for stories about race in six words. Readers supplied their own, and some additional thoughts.

Many parents need jobs that pay well enough to save them from choosing between starvation or selling their young daughters into marriage.

An old tomb and new stained glass windows at the D.C. landmark show how our racial history is seen and re-seen with each generation.

In South African photographer Ernest Cole’s pictures, there is a tension between his feeling of not quite belonging and his new sense of freedom in America.

Humans have a strange habit of deciding what a word means and sticking with it, until reality or the dictionary intrudes. Song lyrics are especially tricky.

American health care already has a cost and quality problem. Private equity is making it worse

Higher levels of capital funding will ensure a safer, more efficient financial system.

The framers forbade impeachment over policy disagreements, however heated.

Putin’s threats kept the U.S. from sending arms to Ukraine when they would have done the most good.

Cancer is real, and it’s scary, readers say.

Brazilian democracy prevailed — and emerged stronger.

Here’s how play streets can promote better childhood health and well-being in places where kids are safer indoors.

Our dread of cancer is out of date and causing harm on its own

The National Park Service wants to remove a herd of about 200 wild horses from their Badlands roaming grounds, but there’s no reason to do so.

The U.S. destroyed its last chemical weapon this year. But other horrible arms loom large.

The United States is facing a critical shortage in China expertise.

For most corporations and universities, remaining silent is by far the wiser choice.

Being vulnerable and imperfect was a lesson in leadership, and life, I’m glad I learned early.