Opinion

By Kiana McKenna and Shomya Tripathy

Why not leave abortion to the states?

When a gunman opened fire at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket last weekend, I tried to help the Washington Post find a local freelance journalist to start covering the story while editors scrambled to get our own reporters to the terrible scene. As a Western New York native who worked at the Buffalo News for decades, I was pretty well positioned to be a scout.

Querida Kiantha,

Dear Kiantha,

Church state

Reports following the domestic terrorist attack at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store have pushed the phrase “great replacement theory” into the vocabulary. It’s being used as a weapon to otherize with fear and division at a time when we need to be building unity.

By Devon Orenstein