Cook: The Second Amendment is killing us
The Second Amendment is killing us.
Cook: Donald Trump and the burning coal of politics
What concerns me lately about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump - besides his eat-the-world ego, consistent cruelty and overall dictatorial tendencies - is the effect he's having on me.
Cook: Bianca Horton and the valley of the shadow of death
Friday afternoon, in the same church where 11 months ago hundreds, if not a thousand-strong crowd, gathered to eulogize the five soldiers killed on July 16, a young black woman named Bianca Ernestine Horton was laid to rest.
Cook: Violence and healing in Chattanooga
This Memorial Day, as we remember victims of war, we should also remember victims of our own internal, civil war.
Cook: Bob Corker’s Joe McCarthy Moment
You do not seem yourself, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.
Cook: A reverse genocide and the politics of hope
Michael Gerson was on the side of the road when I called. The Washington Post columnist, driving back from a speaking engagement at the College of William and Mary, had a flat tire, which seemed apt: I was calling to talk about the future of American foreign policy, which also seems deflated.
Cook: A Mother’s Day dream
Last night, just like the night before, and nights before that, Kat Cooper woke up from the same dream.
Cook: The illusion of stopping gang violence
Chattanooga will never stop gang violence.
Cook: Does the Gig have a mind of its own?
When city leaders and planners recast and re-branded Chattanooga as Gig City, they did so in an attempt to attract a certain type of people with a certain way of seeing the world and their role in it.
Cook: You cannot serve both God and the N.R.A.
Many days, I tremble to read the Bible. It's no picnic, no easy street. There are lion's dens and crucifixions, miracles and lepers. A whirlwind God appears as a burning bush then demands me to forgive and love my enemies while warning me it's easier to fit through a needle's eye than sneak into heaven with my mutual funds.
