Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, 20 years on
A Chicago columnist sees the flaws in the Reagan-era gloss on civil rights.
Commentary
Death penalty can be hard on those who carry it out
The Newsday columnist Jim Dwyer looks south for a lesson on capital punishment.
‘Yep, she gets paid to do that’
A journalist with blue-collar roots, Connie Schultz of Ohio, gets the opportunity of a lifetime and rises to it.
‘A voice for the underdog and underprivileged’
The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Connie Schultz's piece stood up to management for workers, and picked up a Pulitzer. For Labor Day, we revisit her column, 'Here's a little tip about gratuities.'
Why are the young going to pot?
In 1970, adults all across the country worried about kids and drugs. The Bergen County Record's William Caldwell crystallized their concerns in a powerful, prize-winning column.
Jimmy Breslin's View on the AIDS Crisis, Through the Life of One Young New Yorker
New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin was a champion of his city and its citizens — including on young man with AIDS, whose story is told in this 1985 prize-winning piece. In honor of Pride Month, revisit his story.
‘Honey, you’ll be okay,’ Mother said
The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mary Schmich finds a tender story close to home.
A Chicago civics lesson from Mike Royko
The celebrated columnist chronicles a Chicago newcomer’s initiation rite.
Morning in America
'I can’t help but experience Obama’s election as a gesture of recognition and acceptance — which is patently absurd, if you think about it,' Pulitzer-winning columnist Eugene Robinson wrote shortly after the 44th president's election
