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April 25, 2024

Opinion Stories

  • Hush-money criminal trial could cure ‘Trump amnesia’
    April 24, 2024
    Before Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York got underway, pundits predicted that the proceedings could be a media bonanza for the former president. During this year’s Republican primaries, they noted, Trump’s popularity rose every time he was indicted ...
  • Vice President Harris’ moment has arrived
    April 24, 2024
    One of Kamala Harris’ most memorable moments during the 2020 presidential election cycle was when, during a Democratic primary debate, she sharply criticized Joe Biden for working with segregationists in the Senate in their shared opposition to busing ...
  • Plastics, you and the global treaty
    April 24, 2024
    This week, delegates from 175 countries gathered with representatives of industry, academia, health organizations and environmental groups, in Ottawa, Canada, to chart the course for the future of plastics and plastic pollution as they ...
  • Donald Trump fever must be broken
    April 24, 2024
    Congratulations to House Speaker Mike Johnson for getting aid for Ukraine passed. It’s great to see him behaving more like a Reagan Republican than a Trump Republican ...
  • A sign stands outside the U.S. Department of Labor's headquarters, May 6, 2020, in Washington.
    Hardworking Americans can cheer new rules regulating financial advisers
    April 24, 2024
    Kudos to the Biden-Harris administration for taking bold action to protect Americans’ retirement savings from unscrupulous financial advisers. On Tuesday, the administration announced ...
  • Justice can’t stop for campaigning
    April 24, 2024
    Attorneys are familiar with the saying “the law is a jealous mistress,” which means good attorneys work long hours to properly represent clients, taking them away from their own families ...
  • Time to reel in tyrants’ power
    April 24, 2024
    Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. We have given too much power to too few people to hold for too long in America ...
  • Resolving border crisis requires increasing legal migration
    April 23, 2024
    Given former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric during the Republican primaries, we can expect immigration enforcement on our southern border to be a major focus of his presidential campaign.
  • Ohio, Alabama playing ballot games with Biden
    April 23, 2024
    Call it political tit-for-tat. Election officials in Ohio and Alabama have warned President Joe Biden that he might be left off their ballots in November because the Democrats’ mid-August nominating convention is past their deadlines.
  • Trump has clear racial preference
    April 23, 2024
    For years, former President Donald Trump has been clear about the kind of immigrants he wants coming to the United States: people from “(white) places like Norway,” and not from “(expletive) countries like Haiti and Africa.”
  • Clean energy is a feel-good story
    April 23, 2024
    I used to work in oil and gas drilling, but now I’m happier because I’m working in clean energy.
  • Elected officials failing America
    April 23, 2024
    At least 35-40% of Americans are strong believers in political fantasies and wild, false conspiracy theories.
  • Student debt relief advocates gather outside the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Arguments at the Supreme Court over President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation left some borrowers feeling isolated as they heard such a personal subject reduced to cold legal language.
    Objections to student debt relief expose GOP hypocrisy
    April 22, 2024
    The political world is in an uproar over President Joe Biden’s dispensing of student debt relief. It’s not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits ...
  • Talk of war at home is surreal
    April 22, 2024
    I recently came across a story on the internet that highlighted the best places to shelter in America, in the event of a war ...
  • Arizona State Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, a Democrat, speaks on floor at the Capitol, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Phoenix. The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state can enforce its long-dormant law criminalizing all abortions except when a mother's life is at stake.
    Arizona’s outrageous abortion rollbacks will backfire in November
    April 22, 2024
    Arizona’s Supreme Court judges just joined others in a line of states taking foolish measures to roll back abortion rights, reasserting an 1864 law banning the procedure outright. Meanwhile, groups working to put abortion rights on the ballot in the state have gathered ...
  • Voting rights are not negotiable
    April 22, 2024
    With the reintroduction of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA), it’s crucial to have Congress prioritize this bill for the betterment of all communities. Throughout the years, there have been far too many unjust voting laws implemented that aim to ...
  • Extend beneficial internet program
    April 22, 2024
    The Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act of 2024 provides a monthly benefit that allows eligible low-income households to receive discounted internet service. The program also provides a one-time discount that may be used to purchase a connected device, such as a computer ...
  • Amanda Zurawski, left, who developed sepsis and nearly died after being refused an abortion when her water broke at 18 weeks, and Samantha Casiano, who was forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term and gave birth to a baby who died four hours after birth, right, wait to talk to the media outside the Travis County Courthouse, Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Austin, Texas. A Texas judge heard testimony from women who say they were told they could not end their pregnancies in Texas even though their lives and health were in danger.
    Decisions about pregnancy should not be made by courts
    April 21, 2024
    The U.S. Supreme Court is once again taking up abortion, this time in a case deciding whether state-level abortion bans can override federal protections for pregnant people and stop doctors from providing life-saving emergency medical care ...
  • Hush money trial is already not a good look for candidate Trump
    April 21, 2024
    Whenever he enters or leaves the Manhattan courtroom in the case of People of New York State vs. Donald J. Trump, defendant Trump makes a beeline for the cameras, to rant about the goings-on. But to ...
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during an interview with a Russian state-owned media organization in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
    Republicans do Putin’s bidding as dictator plots demise of democracy
    April 21, 2024
    The United States’ responsibility to defend Ukraine and counter Russian aggression is no longer open for debate. It’s a matter of U.S. national security, European security and our only hope to avoid returning to the precipice of global warfare not seen since the end of the WWII ...
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