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• Guest column: I got vaccinated, and so should you

  By Marc Kahn

  The day I wrote this, I woke up with soreness in my right arm, having been an early recipient of the newly approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Development of the vaccine in less than a year from the first reported case of COVID-19 in the United States is a testament to our ability to mobilize resources in times of crisis and to the hard work and ingenuity of the global scientific community.

• Universal COVID care benefits us all

  By Randi Lampert and Kelly Bumgarner

  Throughout 156 years of statehood, Nevadans have celebrated shared prosperity. This was true during our frontier days, the building of the Hoover Dam, and the early days of legalized gambling.

• How to save 162,000 women a year from dying from childbirth

  By Bjorn Lomborg

  Every two minutes, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Most of these deaths are preventable — and the world has been working on a solution for decades. The problem is the funds dedicated to solving the problem never go far enough.

• Efforts big and small needed to fight poverty

  By Kyle Rahn

  When I got the call that United Way of Southern Nevada would be receiving its largest gift in our 63-year history, a thousand emotions hit me at once. Joy, shock and pride were among them.

• Mark Shields and the best of American liberalism

  By David Brooks

  Every Friday evening for the past 19 years, Mark Shields and I have talked politics on “PBS NewsHour.” When people approach me to discuss our segment, sometimes they mention the things we said to each other, but more often they mention how we clearly feel about each other — the affection, friendship and respect. We’ve had thousands of disagreements over the years but never a second of acrimony. Mark radiates a generosity of spirit that improves all who come within his light.

• Don’t hold a grudge or ignore a lesson

  By Charles Blow

  There is always so much talk of unity and coming together, of healing wounds and repairing divisions. We then have to have some version of the tip debate: Do we prove to them that we can rise above their attempt to harm us or do we behave in a way that is consummate with the harm they tried to inflict?

• Second place should not be a ticket to the White House

  By Milan Simonich

  With Republican President Donald Trump on his way out of office, the next target for Democrats is something equally erratic: the Electoral College.

• Six weeks have done real damage

  By Jamelle Bouie

  Last week, electors in 50 states and Washington, D.C., formally chose Joe Biden as the next president of the United States.

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  Trump’s big, beautiful gift to America

  By Brian Greenspun

  Retrospectives of presidential administrations happen about every eight years —and sometimes after only four years, as in this case — but they do happen and they are worthy of our time. That is because every presidency yields some things that are good and some things that are not so good. Donald Trump’s is no different …

• Why the US still has mask and glove shortages

  By Doyle McManus

  There’s been some good news about the pandemic this week along with all the bad: A first vaccine is being rolled out, and another is on the way.

• Desert refuge shouldn’t have to keep dodging bullets

  By John Hiatt

  I moved to Nevada in 1976 and can still remember the first time I visited the Desert National Wildlife Refuge — I saw a great horned owl and a bobcat. I thought to myself, “I just moved to a really amazing place.” But in recent months, we almost lost this special place.

• Human rights for both Koreas

  By Donald Kirk

  We hear so much about human rights that many of us are tired of the term. Sure, North Korea is an egregious human rights violator. True, Americans — ranging from law enforcement people to officials hauling in illegal immigrants and asylum seekers along the Mexican border — violate human rights too.

• Did the Resistance defeat Trump?

  By Ross Douthat

  Two of the most intense factions in our politics — the anti-Trump Resistance, with its claim to be standing against fascism, and the conservatives trying to delegitimize Joe Biden’s victory with claims of widespread voter fraud — agree on almost nothing, but they do agree on one point: The Trump administration was successfully undermined — the Trump agenda thwarted and President Donald Trump himself defeated — by liberal institutions that refused to normalize him, maintained a persistent alarm about his presidency and took every opportunity to obstruct, investigate, protest and impeach.

• Republicans have hated facts for decades

  By Paul Krugman

  Republicans spent most of 2020 rejecting science in the face of a runaway pandemic; now they’re rejecting democracy in the face of a clear election loss.

• How to fix a National Register of Historic Places that reflects mostly white history

  By Sara Bronin

  Fifty years ago, tens of thousands of people marched through East Los Angeles in a series of demonstrations as part of the Chicano Moratorium movement to protest the Vietnam War and its toll on Mexican Americans. Hundreds were arrested, and several were killed, including L.A. Times journalist Ruben Salazar.

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