Leonard Pitts Jr.

Working from home vs. being required to be in the office is more than a "woman's issue," instead, it opens the debate to the idea that working and being alone is the right thing for many people - especially introverts.

One day, many years ago, I was working in my college bookstore when this guy walks in wearing a T-shirt. "White Power," it said.

Maybe the party is finally over.

Does torture work? It is a Bush-era debate that has found Obama-era relevance because of a new movie, "Zero Dark Thirty," in which torture seems to work quite well.

Young people are not exactly renowned for their judgment.

I take this one personally. Let me tell you why.

Thank goodness that's over.

Well, I sure got that one wrong.

"Truth crushed to earth will rise again."

This is for Vanessa in South Florida.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – What do you do after hope and change have failed?

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy," the narrator is conveyed to the gates of hell, upon which he finds a sign: "Abandon hope, ye who enter here."

It was in 2008, the debate between vice presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. Biden had just scored his opponent for failing to directly answer a question from moderator Gwen Ifill. But Palin was hardly apologetic. "I may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you want to hear," she snapped, "but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also."

Rush Limbaugh claims the bad guy in the new Batman movie was named Bane to remind voters of Mitt Romney's controversial tenure at Bain Capital.

Former Sheriff Andy Taylor died here last week. Mayberry is in mourning.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care."

In 2005 when their city drowned, the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune stayed in it longer than common sense and simple prudence would dictate. People who had lost homes, loved ones and their city itself concentrated on gathering the news and putting it out. They finally left huddled in newspaper delivery trucks, water up the headlights, decamping to Baton Rouge, 75 miles away, where they went right back to reporting the news.

There was always something hapless about Rodney King

Chyanna Richards saw Jesus in her bathroom.

Bill Internicola had to show his papers.

Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned.

"Someday my prince will come." – "Snow White," 1937