Las Vegas Sun

July 26, 2024

Columnists

  • The results are in: Trickle-down economics is a myth
    With Donald Trump’s selection of JD Vance as his running mate, the Republican Party has cemented its turn toward American workers. Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Vance pledged a commitment to safeguarding jobs and wages, echoing the Democratic Party. ...
  • Primaries are not sacrosanct in America
    Alas, the coronation of Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee is complete. Democrats are surprisingly ecstatic with the decision, and Republicans, or at least the Trump campaign is very cross about it, complaining that democracy has been ...
  • Why would Teamsters boss praise antiunion Republicans?
    International Brotherhood of Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien’s speech to the first day of the Republican National Convention should leave union and nonunion members alike feeling confused, if not totally betrayed. O’Brien said all ...
  • Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on stage during his walk-through on the third day of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, in Milwaukee.
    Biden is the one with COVID, but it’s Trump who has a COVID problem
    The former president was rusty and out of practice, not quite delivering with the zip he once had, when in a curious blunder, he boasted of one of his legitimate achievements — expediting the development of COVID vaccines ...
  • Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at her campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Del., Monday, July 22, 2024.
    Harris’ political instincts paying off
    With President Joe Biden recovering from COVID-19, the task of honoring top college athletes from across the country fell to Harris, who performed the same duty last year with much less fanfare ...
  • A Southwest Airlines ground crew directs a plane out of the terminal at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif. on Feb. 14, 2023.
    CrowdStrike meltdown shows that the hacking problem isn’t only from outside
    An ineptly designed update to a program rolled out by the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike and installed automatically on users’ machines instantly crashed millions of computers running Microsoft programs ...
  • President Joe Biden sits in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 9, 2024, in Washington. Biden says he's "determined to get as much done as I possibly can" in his final six months in the White House but will face obstacles in his bid to burnish his legacy.
    Biden’s exit not like Trump’s insurrection
    Shortly after Biden announced that he would step down as the Democratic nominee, Republicans decried the decision, calling it a “coup,” accusing Democrats of overturning an election and even suggested it would be illegal to ...
  • Dark theme ran through the Supreme Court’s term
    In the three years since conservatives seized a Supreme Court supermajority, they have overruled at least one major precedent a year. This year, from crippling federal agencies to giving presidents sweeping protection from accountability, they showed no signs of slowing down.
  • Story of the Civil Rights Act would stun us today
    July 2 marked the 60th anniversary of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — perhaps the most consequential statute in American history — outlawing discrimination in public accommodations and facilities, in education and employment.
  • Harris has what it takes to overcome, united America
    What President Joe Biden did by giving up power early isn’t quite on par with what George Washington did by refusing to run for a third term, though in the modern era of politics, nothing else comes close.
  • Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., leaves federal court in New York, Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Menendez has been convicted of all the charges he faced at his corruption trial, including accepting bribes of gold and cash from three New Jersey businessmen and acting as a foreign agent for the Egyptian government.
    No corrupt, convicted felon can credibly serve the public trust
    No American should want a convicted felon who remains unrepentant and refuses to accept responsibility for their actions to serve in any government position.
  • Pennsylvania State Police arrive at the Cabot Church, in Cabot, Pa., Friday, July 19, 2024, before the funeral service for Buffalo Township Volunteer fireman Corey Comeratore, who was killed at a Pennsylvania rally for Donald Trump, Saturday, July 13, 2024. Corey Comperatore's quick decision to use his body as a shield against the bullets flying toward his wife and daughter rang true to the close friends and neighbors who loved and respected the proud 50-year-old Trump supporter, noting that the Butler County resident was a "man of conviction."
    Question lingers: Who protects everyday Americans?
    There is a question I have been waiting a respectable amount of time to ask. It is a question that so many Americans ask every time there are senseless murders of innocents whether they be people praying in their church, young people gathered in a nightclub for an evening of fun, people gathered together to ...
  • Laura Campbell, director of actions at Nevada NOW, shares a personal story during a roundtable on women’s reproductive rights with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., at a Biden-Harris field office Thursday, June 20, 2024.
    GOP Senate candidate has no regard for women’s reproductive freedom
    Republican Senate candidate Sam Brown claimed in a recent op-ed in the Las Vegas Sun that the overturning of Roe v. Wade actually “strengthened Nevada’s protections for abortion.” Brown’s assertion highlights his deeply flawed understanding of ...
  • Seniors taking balance class think presidential candidates should join them
    If Biden drops out, or wins reelection but then steps down, “I trust Kamala,” Kendall said of Vice President Harris. “We just cannot vote for a felon.” ...
  • Very different lessons from Appalachian roots
    I read “Hillbilly Elegy,” written by Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, but it didn’t stick with me in the slightest ...
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