Editorial illustration examining Karen Attiah's Washington Post firing and reinstatement through questions of media power, workplace standards, race, gender and misogynoir.

Karen Attiah Got Her Job Back. The Harder Question Is Why She Lost It.

An arbitrator found that The Washington Post lacked sufficient cause to fire longtime opinion columnist Karen Attiah and ordered her reinstated with back pay. The decision settles an important labor question, but leaves another unresolved: whether race and gender influenced how Attiah’s words were interpreted and why termination became the chosen punishment. Examining that question introduces misogynoir—not as a predetermined verdict, but as a hypothesis that should be tested against evidence.

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Idolatry, Witness, and the Weight of the Gavel – Sermonette Series

Pastor Jamal Bryant has once again found himself in the center of cultural clash. After lifting Martin Luther King Jr. as a prophetic voice, he was accused by Millicent Sedra of “ethnic idolatry.” But is honoring a witness the same as worshiping an idol? This sermonette examines the charge, the self-appointed gavel, and what the Word says about idolatry, remembrance, and the cloud of witnesses.

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Missouri’s Extermination Order Meets Utah’s Present: When a Slave-State Playbook Haunts Modern Rhetoric

From EO-44 to a campus killing, the through-line is how dehumanizing language trains the hand that pulls the trigger. Analysis | InnerKwest Editorial Team — September 11, 2025 (ET) Editor’s Note — September 11, 2025: Today marks the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. InnerKwest remembers the victims and first responders. We publish this analysis with renewed commitment to resisting …