Columnist Thérèse Soukar Chehade: Drive for independence pulses like a heartbeat

Columnist Don Robinson: Nation’s commitment to equality continues

Columnist Jay Fleitman: Nation continues efforts to be a ‘more perfect union’

Columnist Bob Flaherty: Weed is out in the open, but am I?  

Columnist Claire Day: Judging US by treatment of innocent children

Columnist Steve Fox: This one is personal on many levels

Columnist Arlene Avakian: Must confront who we are as white Americans

Columnist James McGovern: Paying tribute to a man of service

Columnist Jim Cahillane: Coming of age in 1968, a year to remember

Columnist Claire Morenon: Dairy farms productive, vital and struggling

Columnist Karen Gardner: No end to president’s cruelty

Columnist Clare Higgins: ‘Millionaire tax’ was about fairness