7 of our top opinion columns this week: ICYMI
In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback.
1. Anti-Trump businesswomen are nervous about Warren, and the Democratic debate didn't help
By Lauren Leader
"It has been a big month for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. ... But rising along with Warren is anxiety among corporate leaders, especially the growing number of women working in the corporate sector, who fear her strident anti-corporate rhetoric could actually cost Democrats the presidency if she is the nominee. ... They fear that if offended, big-company employees stay home in 2020, especially women, President Donald Trump could win again."
2. Nancy Pelosi doesn't have to hold House impeachment inquiry vote. But the speaker should.
By The Editorial Board
"(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi) needs to call for a vote on launching an inquiry — sooner rather than later. ... Americans should know where their elected representatives stand on launching an inquiry. This isn't an impeachment vote. And it isn't a mystery whether it would pass. ... Moreover, such a vote would give the House impeachment investigation a stronger hand in court for obtaining White House documents and testimony."
3. Native American museum director: Columbus was far from the first to discover America
By Kevin Gover
"The observance of Columbus Day is the outgrowth of a whitewashed history, perpetuated in public discourse and in our schools, where native and nonnative children, from the earliest age, are taught simplistic, incomplete and inaccurate information about American Indians. ... These narratives, in turn, influence government policies and shape how nonnatives respond to their Native American neighbors."
4. Ex-Republican: Do we still agree on beating Trump? After your LGBTQ forum, I'm not sure.
By Tom Nichols
"When (Democrats and I) watched CNN's LGBTQ town hall for the Democratic candidates Thursday, we had very different reactions. ... You thought it was great. You saw a ringing defense of LGBTQ rights and a reaffirmation of what Democrats stand for. I saw it and thought: Are these people insane? Are they trying to lose the election?"
5. Impeachment: Trump obstruction is unprecedented. Congress has power to compel testimony
By Ross K. Baker
"Presidents have often been nettled by congressional committees but no president has ever successfully challenged the right of committees to take testimony from witnesses thereby obstructing their ability to function as the framers intended. ... This act of subversion by President Donald Trump ... is a frontal attack on a time-honored power of a legislative body handed down to us from centuries of British lawmakers."
6. Mental health experts see Trump is dangerous, but our professional gatekeepers protect him
By Bandy X. Lee
"I have been compelled to blow two whistles: first, by publishing a book to alert the public that Donald Trump was more dangerous than perhaps any president in history, for psychological reasons; and second, on the American Psychiatric Association's actions that have effectively silenced those of us trying to fulfill our professional responsibility to society as outlined in its own code of ethics."
7. For black shooting victims, sometimes anger (not forgiveness) is the best response
By Yolonda Wilson
"Convicted murderers don’t usually get hugs from the family of the victim. But last week, Brandt Jean explicitly told former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger that he forgave her for shooting his brother Botham and asked the judge for permission to hug her. ... Jean has every right to do the thing that helps him heal and honor the memory of his brother. But in instances of unjust killings of black victims, why does the public laud responses of forgiveness and criticize those that include anger?"
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