8 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. How do Trump's extraordinary betrayals stand up against history? He could be the worst.

By David Rothkopf

"It is not a small thing to call the president of the United States a traitor. But it is an even greater offense to fail to call him one if he has betrayed his country as often and as egregiously as Donald Trump has done."

2. Barrett confirmation means Roe is at risk, and prosecutors need to step up

By Miriam Aroni Krinsky

"Monday's confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett has given the U.S. Supreme Court a conservative supermajority, making the longstanding anchor of Roe v. Wade — the landmark decision enshrining a woman’s constitutional right to have an abortion without the excessive interference of government — anything but certain."

3. Early voting breaking records amid COVID-19: Hail to you, determined voters

By The Editorial Board

"As of Wednesday, more than 75 million had already cast ballots, according to the U.S. Elections Project. This year, for the first time, more people will vote before Election Day than on Election Day."

4. My 'suburban mom' demographic is supposedly all in for Biden. But I'm voting for Trump.

By Lauren DeBellis Appell

"In 2016, I took a chance and cautiously voted for Donald Trump based on the promises he made. This year, I’m proudly voting for him based on the promises he’s kept and the leadership he’s shown over the last three and a half years. President Trump has done more that I support than any president in my lifetime, and certainly more than Joe Biden in his decades in Washington." 

5. Donald Trump and I went to the same progressive church, but he betrayed its teachings

By Stacy Torres

"President Donald Trump and I were members of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City for decades. I never saw him. Neither did at least one of our pastors, Rev. David Lewicki, who led the Bible group I attended in my 20s." 

6. Trump vs. Biden: Paste BN Opinion contributors assess the final presidential debate

By Paste BN

"Before the candidates walked out to take part in the debate, Biden had already won it. As with any debate, the actual words spoken by the candidates are ephemeral — but the visual for this debate will be permanent: Each candidate limited by a mute button because the incumbent president cannot control his emotions. And each candidate standing a half mile away from the other because of the president's failure to address a deadly viral disease that hit America nearly nine months ago."

7. I'm the FDA point person on COVID-19 vaccines. We'll make sure they're safe and effective.

By Dr. Peter Marks

"At the FDA, we uphold globally respected standards for product quality, safety and efficacy. We monitor the entire process of vaccine development from beginning to end and then follow these products after they are made available to the public. And we pledge to do our duty to the best of our ability, independently and without conflicts of interest."

8. During Zoom calls, keep your pants on: It’s not prudishness, it’s white male privilege

By Michele Weldon

"Yes, the New Yorker has suspended (but not fired) Toobin for the time being and CNN says he is taking 'time off.' It is his American white privilege and his maleness that protects him from what in other countries has stiffer consequences."