It shouldn’t take another attempt on Donald Trump’s life to convince the Secret Service its strategy for protecting the former president is inadequate.

A seismic shift has occurred in America’s race, identity and power discourse. Like tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s surface, long-held assumptions are adjusting and giving way to a reimagined lingua franca for civic engagement. This revived language of liberation redefines the terms of debate. It empowers us to reclaim and reinvigorate words once weaponized principally against marginalized communities.

Last week, President Joe Biden and the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury issued new rules meant to ensure that insurance coverage for mental health conditions and substance abuse disorder has parity with the level of services available for physical health.

At last week’s presidential debate, Donald Trump brought up a chilling scene: Haitian migrants roaming the city of Springfield, Ohio, terrorizing the local population and eating their pets. It was a message previously spread by his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, and other prominent GOP politicians.

For American households, the good news is that inflation rates have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels. Perhaps most importantly, economists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture predict that gains in food price will continue to moderate. Indeed, data compiled by Adobe Inc. shows that online grocery prices fell 3.7% in August from a month earlier, the largest decline since the firm began tracking the numbers in 2014.

The Tyreek Hill rough takedown case is still unfolding, but one thing has become clear: From the moment Miami-Dade police officers yanked the Dolphins star player by the neck from his gull-wing McLaren and forced him to the ground last Sunday, a routine traffic stop in South Florida became part of the painful, national discussion about driving while Black and use of force by police.

If it’s strength they need, there’s strength in numbers.

The reason both leading presidential candidates have favorability ratings under 50% was on full display during Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Unlike the debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in June, Tuesday’s much-anticipated showdown between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris had a much different loser.

A new friend recently asked me what I think my job is. Leadership being so hard to define, I often reply that I go to meetings and I sign stuff. That indeed is how I spend much of my time. There are also the events, of course — receptions, athletic competitions, dinners and luncheons — and at each of those events, I know my attendance is representative not only of me personally but also of the university as a whole.

This week began the federal antitrust trial against Google for alleged monopolistic practices when it comes to the online advertising space, with the Justice Department contending that the company has outsize dominion over what is a lifeline for industries including online publishing. Google, of course, doesn’t see it that way.

In Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris may or may not have increased her chances of becoming the 47th president. But she did what so many have tried, and failed, to do.

Far too often, rural Americans feel ignored by presidential campaigns. While elites in Washington, New York and Los Angeles generate the headlines, focusing primarily on the two coasts, Americans outside major cities continue to fly under the radar.

Joe Biden is still president, but it’s unclear if he’s still running the country.

After rural voters turned out big for Donald Trump, a narrative emerged that rural America was made up of majority White communities who used to vote reliably Democratic but had shifted right. The emergence of Tim Walz and JD Vance in this election cycle offers a chance for a deeper understanding of rural America, the Americans who live there — and what each candidate’s policies would do for these communities.

Does it sometimes seem as if social media has turned American popular culture into a perfectionist parody of itself?

It was ugly. It was inane. It was tone-deaf and uncouth.

I don’t care if you are an Independent, Republican or Democratic candidate — my brother’s grave is not your campaign trail.