J. Pharoah Doss Archives

September 20, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Black Lives Matter captured national attention when civil unrest sparked in Ferguson, MO, after an unarmed Black...

Does corporal punishment in schools work?

Courier Newsroom - September 13, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss Economists always say: There are no solutions, only tradeoffs. What does that mean? Problem A has temporary fix B or C,...

J. Pharoah Doss: Cancel Culture’s children

September 6, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Recently, Salman Rushdie, a 75-year-old novelist, was a guest speaker at the Chautauqua Institution. He was slated...

J. Pharoah Doss: The yin to the progressive yang

Courier Newsroom - August 30, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni wrote a short story called A Revolutionary Tale where one character asked...

J. Pharoah Doss: Recessions and re-education

August 23, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The Obama/Biden administration mastered the art of redefining concepts to meet their political objectives. The Bush/Cheney response...

J. Pharoah Doss: The Black conservative conundrum

Courier Newsroom - August 16, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss A few months ago, Sunny Hostin, a Black host on "The View," said she didn’t understand Black Republicans and that a...

J. Pharoah Doss: Long games and long shots

Courier Newsroom - August 9, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell’s published memoir has a strategic title: The Long Game. Last month, a...

J. Pharoah Doss: A police shooting, a clash of parents, and poor headlines

Courier Newsroom - August 2, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier The following headlines, centering around a mother who confronted demonstrators at a rally for a Black man...

Viewpoint: It can’t happen here?

Courier Newsroom - July 17, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss During the great depression, Sinclair Lewis wrote a dystopian novel about a charismatic populist candidate that captured the US presidency and...

When global truths collide

July 5, 2022

by J. Pharoah Doss, For New Pittsburgh Courier On Juneteenth, the news outlet Democracy Now! produced a holiday special. Their audience was treated to a...

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