Some recent pieces from the archives.

Rosa's articles and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and dozens of other newspapers and magazines.

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Woodward’s “Rage” is a Damning Account of Trump’s Cowering Sycophants and Enablers

What new insights does Bob Woodward’s latest book, “Rage,” offer? We learn that President Trump is not the sharpest tool in the shed; members of his Cabinet consider him a narcissistic fool, devoid of empathy and incapable of distinguishing between truth and falsehood.

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One reason for police violence? Too many men with badges

Recruiting women may reduce police violence.

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Stop Training the Police Like They’re Joining the Military

If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession.

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Trump Wants to Crush Black Lives Matter with a Law That Fought Segregation

Past presidents used the Insurrection Act to protect civil rights — not to send troops to silence dissent.

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Police Officers Need to Consider Going “hands off” During This Crisis

No one warned me, before I joined the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Reserve Corps in 2016, that policing requires an enormous amount of physical intimacy.

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For Working Class Americans, Disaster is Only a Misstep Away

Journalistic power couple Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn begin their latest book, “Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope,” with an epigraph from Dr. Seuss…

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