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In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started\u00a0in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week’s top\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion\u00a0pieces.\u00a0As always, thanks for reading, and\u00a0for your feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion editors<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Patti Davis: I understand Hunter Biden’s darkness of addiction. Don’t you dare judge\u00a0us.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Patti Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Listening to\u00a0Hunter Biden\u2019s unflinching account\u00a0to CBS News of his darkest times \u2014\u00a0days and nights in a narrow world of craving the drugs that were stealing his life \u2014\u00a0left me admiring his honesty and his courage, but also flinching with the memories that huddle stubbornly in my own history. When I was barely 20, a doctor I had been getting amphetamines from, and frequently lying to in order to get refills way before I should have, suddenly got wise to me. He refused to refill the prescription, insisting instead that I let him do an electrocardiogram. After the test, he informed me that, if I continued my drug use, I wouldn\u2019t live to 30.”<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Reparations is not about cutting a check. It’s about repairing a community.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Erika Alexander and Nina Turner<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Congress needs to stop selling Black people out to appease those who want to destroy us.\u00a0Reparations\u00a0isn\u2019t about cutting Black people a check. It\u2019s about cutting us a break. Our elected leaders should finally stand up to white supremacy and set the country on the path of truth, repair\u00a0and racial reconciliation without delay. With H.R. 40, the opportunity is there. All they have to do is grab it.”<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Prince Philip was the most interesting royal<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Dan Carney<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Millions of Americans are drawn to the English royals. But perhaps the wrong ones. The Meghan and Harry split with Buckingham Palace is like many other rifts between individuals and institutions. The Charles and Diana saga a generation before was a standard celebrity divorce, one involving people with titles rather than credits.\u00a0There is one royal, however, whose story is better than tabloid fare, better even than fiction. His name is Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of the Queen, who\u00a0died Friday.”<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Caron Nazario case shows hate is an American disease, not just a white one<\/h2>\n

By David Mastio<\/strong><\/p>\n

“With each new outrageous example\u00a0of police misconduct, the calls to do something about the culture of policing get justifiably louder, but one of the primary tools reform advocates push could\u00a0be ineffective:\u00a0Diversifying police officers and leadership isn’t a silver bullet. The latest example comes from Windsor, Virginia,\u00a0where two police officers pepper-sprayed and handcuffed a Black Latino\u00a0Army lieutenant,\u00a0Caron Nazario, after they pulled him over in December.\u00a0Windsor is a small town near Hampton Roads, which has a significant military footprint.”<\/p>\n

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New Miranda rights (Photo: Christopher Weyant\/The Boston Globe)<\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Corporations don’t like voter suppression, so McConnell wants them out of politics. Seriously?<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Ashley Pratte<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Senate Minority Leader\u00a0Mitch McConnell has warned CEOs of large corporations to ‘stay out of politics,’ calling their engagement in divisive political issues ‘stupid.’\u00a0An ironic turn of events given the fact that Republicans are supposed to be the party that supports capitalism, free markets\u00a0and free speech.\u00a0What\u2019s more, the GOP has been filling its campaign coffers with corporate donations for years and has even encouraged and publicly supported companies such as\u00a0Hobby Lobby\u00a0in their free speech efforts surrounding divisive political issues like\u00a0birth control and LGBTQ rights. But\u00a0when the tables turn and companies speak out against the Republican Party and legislation it backs, the hypocrisy is astounding.”<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0I’m an American citizen, essential worker and mother of two. Why was my husband deported?<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Anne Valentin Saint Brave<\/strong><\/p>\n

“On Dec. 17, 2019, my husband, Rodner, and I went to our local Immigration and Customs Enforcement office with our attorney for a routine check-in, a requirement of his pending green card. About an hour later, my lawyer emerged and told me Rodner was being deported. He wasn\u2019t allowed to say goodbye to me or our two children. We haven\u2019t seen him since.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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American Infrastructure (Photo: Adam Zyglis\/The Buffalo News)<\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Despair is real among Black, brown Americans as police ‘mistakes’ persist, Daunte Wright killed<\/h2>\n

By Suzette Hackney<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Under the shadow of former Minneapolis police officer\u00a0Derek Chauvin’s trial\u00a0\u2013 one of the highest-profile legal proceedings of our generation\u00a0\u2013\u00a0another Black man has died just 10 miles \u00a0north of the city. He was\u00a0shot by a Brooklyn Center police officer\u00a0during a traffic stop Sunday. His name is\u00a0Daunte Wright. He was 20 years old.\u00a0Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon said the officer mistakenly grabbed her firearm instead of her Taser. In a news conference Monday, Gannon\u00a0characterized the shooting as an ‘accidental discharge.'”\u00a0<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Biden wants do big things. For America and history, he should get them done any way he\u00a0can.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jill Lawrence and Gregg Zoroya<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Generations since have grown accustomed\u00a0to Capitol Hill gridlock and nastiness.\u00a0Failure to compromise has triggered\u00a021\u00a0government\u00a0shutdowns\u00a0since 1976, the longest one\u00a0for\u00a035 days\u00a0just two years ago. With few exceptions, the\u00a0laws that do make it through\u00a0are weak tea. According to the\u00a0Pew Research\u00a0Center,\u00a0a full third of the bills in the last Congress were so-called ceremonial statutes commemorating coins or renaming post offices, the highest rate of insubstantial lawmaking in a decade.”<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0In face of more police violence, what happened to Biden pledge to have backs of Black America?<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Maurice Mitchell<\/strong><\/p>\n

“On Sunday, 20-year-old\u00a0Daunte Wright was killed by police\u00a0in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. This, as the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who knelt on George Floyd\u2019s neck in the\u00a0city that is less than 15 miles from the\u00a0latest shooting, casts an ominous shadow. In the past few weeks\u00a0alone, the nation has been rocked by shocking reports of police violence.\u00a0Adam Toledo, a Latino\u00a013-year-old,\u00a0was killed by Chicago police on March 29. Police video of the incident is slated to be released this week.”<\/p>\n

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Afghan exit date (Photo: Dave Granlund\/PoliticalCartoons.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Obamacare, for all its health insurance flaws, survives Trump, repeal, replace and COVID-19<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0The Editorial Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

“‘Has anybody heard of Obamacare?’ Trump\u00a0mocked at a campaign stop\u00a0in September.\u00a0Actually, that would be a most definitive yes\u00a0\u2014 particularly for the\u00a020 million Americans who have health insurance\u00a0today thanks to the 11-year-old federal\u00a0sponsored health insurance program that was a signature achievement of President Barack Obama. Either by expanding Medicaid enrollment or providing government discounts (tax credits) on health insurance plans, the\u00a0law has been effective at reducing longstanding health coverage deficits among the poor and people of color.”<\/p>\n

Affordable Care Act, 11 years later, is still giving us harmful side effects<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Thomas Price<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law 11 years ago \u2014 an overhaul proponents argued would lower costs, expand access and improve quality by giving patients more choice. Sadly, it has failed to meet some of those laudable goals. Since the ACA\u2019s passage, health care costs have skyrocketed as patient choices dwindle \u2014 a result of strangling doctors, hospitals, employers and insurance providers with government red tape. The Supreme Court determined\u00a0that the individual mandate penalty, which forced Americans to purchase coverage that didn\u2019t necessarily fit their unique circumstances, was unconstitutional.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0On Afghanistan, Biden decides a 20-year war is long enough and upsets all the right people<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jason Sattler<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Joe Biden wants to do what no American president this century has been able to do. On Wednesday, he announced his intention to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, the 20th\u00a0anniversary of the terror attack that sparked the longest war in this nation\u2019s history. ‘We cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan hoping to create the ideal conditions for our withdrawal, expecting a different result,’ he said. This announcement demonstrates what have proven to be the two most promising aspects of Biden\u2019s young presidency:\u00a0the ability to learn from past mistakes, his own and others, and a willingness to trigger\u00a0the right people.”<\/p>\n

12.\u00a0In real life, transgender girls in sports are a non-controversy: Retired high school coach<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Larry Strauss<\/strong><\/p>\n

“More than a dozen\u00a0states have proposed or instituted bans\u00a0on transgender athletes. Mississippi calls\u00a0its version\u00a0\u201cthe\u00a0Mississippi Fairness Act,\u201d offering up the popular concern that trans female athletes have an unfair advantage over other female athletes and that their presence would violate the competitive equity that is the very reason for separate girls\u2019 and boys\u2019 sports and women\u2019s and men\u2019s sports.\u00a0Such fears, in and of themselves, are not bigotry. But they do reflect a sadly limited understanding of high school sports and high school athletes.”<\/p>\n

You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com.<\/i><\/p>\n

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