7 of our top columns this week: ICYMI

In today's fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we've started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week's top Paste BN Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback.

— Paste BN Opinion editors

1. Schiff: Bolton could have made a difference, but he chose to make a profit with his book

By Adam Schiff

"In short, Bolton is telling Americans what we already know. That the president is exactly what he appears to be: petty, self-serving, ignorant and utterly supplicant to autocrats in China, Turkey, North Korea and Russia."

2. When Black lives matter to Democrats, and when they don't

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds

"Do Black lives matter to Democrats? As Tim Alberta recently reported, a lot of Black voters think the answer is no. That may explain why the Democrats are blocking the GOP justice reform bill in the Senate: With Black voters already discouraged, Democrats don’t want them to get the idea that Republicans may have something to offer."

3. Trump, like Herbert Hoover, is 'the man who doesn’t care.' Biden can make that stick.

By Matt Bennett and Josh Freed

"At a recent White House event, as small business owners poured out their anguish about the economic devastation of the coronavirus shutdown, President Donald Trump made his boredom plain. He scrolled through his phone and posted on Twitter about an unrelated controversy. Yet this was just a particularly obvious display of Trump’s lack of concern for the travails of his constituents."

4. The Backstory: Big indoor events are risky. That's why I went to President Trump's rally.

By Nicole Carroll

"On Tuesday afternoon, I went to Trump's Phoenix rally. I wasn't looking to take a risk. I was looking to understand the political, cultural, and even age divisions that have emerged in our public health crisis."

5. Racist comments of North Carolina cops support need for swift passage of Floyd Act

By Ben Crump

"If partisans in Congress need further evidence about why they should forgo partisan divisions and pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, they need look no further than Wilmington, North Carolina."

6. This July Fourth, deaths of three Marines haunt Donald Trump on Russian bounty to Taliban

By The Editorial Board

"When three U.S. Marine reservists were killed in a roadside bomb attack last year in Afghanistan, they seemed like more tragic casualties of America's two-decade war against Islamic fundamentalists there. Now, however, the case has taken on an even more sinister twist: U.S. intelligence officials suspect that the attackers might have been motivated by Russian bounties on American troops."

7. I run a Louisiana abortion clinic. Despite Supreme Court win, I'm nervous for our future.

By Kathaleen Pittman

"For six years, my lawyers have been fighting a law that would have shut down the abortion clinic I run in Shreveport, Louisiana — Hope Medical Group for Women. On Monday, we won in the U.S. Supreme Court, which struck down the law, meaning we can stay open for our patients. I am relieved that the court saw through Louisiana’s deceitful attempts to shut us down, but I'm still deeply worried."