It was a wonderful sight.

In November, four Chattanooga residents traveled together to Ghana's Cape Coast, determined to deepen their understanding of the events that first brought enslaved Africans to the shores of what is now the United States in 1619.

In August 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans docked at Point Comfort in the British colony of Virginia — what is now part of the United States. Over 20 enslaved Africans were on the ship and with that, American slavery was born. The year 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of that historic moment — the "Year of Return."

Don't we all long for someone — better yet, a group of someones — who will promote more transparency in political fundraising, lobbying, elections and ethics enforcement?

Let's hope Santa and his elves and reindeer are good swimmers and won't mind a greener Arctic landscape.

Sometimes, people just need a little bit of help. Or help that would seem little to most of us, yet to them it's the difference between lying alone on the floor all night or calling 911 for stronger arms to get them back on their feet or into a chair.

Anti-Semitic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, D-Michigan, is not happy blaming only Jews for the world's problems.

A majority of Democrats in a recent Monmouth University poll said Barack Obama was a better president than George Washington, and a majority of Republicans in an earlier Economist/YouGov Poll said Donald Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln.

Shortly after a shooter killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018, parents of Hamilton County public school children made clear school safety was utmost in their minds.

It is hard for me to be out in public or on social media without being peppered with questions by people with strained faces about whether there is any chance that the Senate will vote to convict Donald Trump if the House of Representatives impeaches him.

Hey, it looks like we'll have impeachment before Christmas. Talk about the holiday spirit.

Donald Trump famously said that he could shoot somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not "lose any voters." I don't know about that. But I'm confident that he wouldn't lose Bill Barr.

With the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 70th anniversary summit in London, it's fair to say that Donald Trump thinks that most alliance members, starting with France and Canada, are a bunch of ungrateful freeloaders. Fair to say, also, that most of those members see Trump as an erratic and pompous simpleton.

Between the collapse of George W. Bush's presidency and the rise of Donald Trump, the Republican Party was a more ideological institution than the Democratic Party.

President Trump deserves credit for ordering the operation that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It was a high-risk mission that required U.S. forces to fly hundreds of miles into al-Qaida- controlled territory to storm a heavily armed terrorist compound.