Opinion

Last Thursday, Amazon announced it was abandoning plans to build a second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, citing opposition and hostility from local officials. The new headquarters was expected to bring up to 40,000 high-paying jobs to the area...

Storm clouds are looming over Oxford. While rain and thunderstorms are predicted from Tuesday until Sunday, there is a stronger and more concerning ideological storm heading toward our campus. University students, faculty and staff and Oxonians, I implore you to...

Re: “Let’s wait for this storm to pass” (Feb. 18) Have you ever wondered what you would have done during the great conflicts of history? Whether you would have gone to Harpers Ferry with John Brown or urged “law and...

On Jan. 28, the Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a city ordinance banning the use of bed sheets to make signs. The reason? Last football season, some questionable signs were hung around town to show disdain for other teams. Most...

Josh Baker asks an important question: “Who does removing the statue even help?” On Oct. 1, 2013, audience members jeered, mocked, and shouted homophobic slurs at actors during a campus performance of “The Laramie Project” — a play about the...

“Between two parties, we must choose the lesser evil” isn’t a promising start to a piece condemning divisive action. My issue with the article lies neither with the writer’s condemnation of the Smollett assault nor with her condemnation of racism...

On the modern left, identity politics has proven to be nothing more than finding the most oppressed group possible and then encouraging virtue signaling from guilt-ridden privileged groups. Protests, usually against right-leaning speakers, have engulfed college campuses and been plastered...

Black History Month 2019 is proving to be quite interesting. February has been filled with racially charged controversies. Vintage symbols of racism like blackface and lynchings — matters we assumed were long-buried — are now revisiting us in the 21st century,...

Re: “Hands off Venezuela” (Jan. 31) Earlier this year, I was sitting next to a Venezuelan man on a flight. We struck up a conversation about the turmoil going on in his country. The situation he described was dire —...

The Fyre Festival will probably be recorded as the greatest party to be planned. The promise of supermodels, concerts and exclusive access duped thousands of millennials, leaving them stranded and starving in the Bahamas. “Fyre Festival: The Greatest Party that...