Teens like me are too often conditioned to conform to what adults say, even as we suppress our disagreement or discomfort. The pressure to remain silent only increases for people from historically marginalized backgrounds or those who lack the power and influence to meaningfully or immediately change their circumstances.
Why are Americans so stupid? Relax, it’s just a question not an accusation. Not yet, anyway. I will leave that part up to you. Stupid — and only in this context — can be interchangeable with words like unknowledgeable, undereducated, willfully ignorant ... and millennial. ...
Since this is still a family newspaper, I will try to be respectful of what should be family values. And even though almost everybody — even those who claim never to use such words but every once in a while just can’t help themselves — has heard or said it before, I write today about the F-word.
My name is Jerry Engel and I am a proud 93-year-old Jew who has lived in Las Vegas for 70 years (since 1953). Despite my age and Jewish identity, I am not a Holocaust survivor, and I am grateful that I have never experienced ...
As Thanksgiving approaches, it is reasonable to think about the trials and tribulations that the Pilgrims encountered when they landed at what would become the new Plymouth Colony in 1620.
The only Democrat in the Nevada congressional delegation to speak out against this scourge of hateful and life-threatening rhetoric was Rep. Susie Lee.
Israel is being criticized for the killing of innocent civilians while Hamas deliberately uses mosques and hospitals as shields. Let us not forget that in the last months of World War II, Nazi Germany was subjected to enormous bombing attacks by the Allied countries.
Israelis saw the real America this week in the person of President Joe Biden. They saw and heard the leader of the most powerful country on Earth has their back.
As I consider those two words that ever since the Holocaust have been the guiding admonition for Jews around the world — that never again will Jews anywhere stand silent, do nothing and allow the next group of Nazis to march them to the ovens of destruction — I am struck by the ease with which so many others, especially young people, can pay them no heed.
What was bad with the congressional Republicans' 1995 "Contract with America" was the requirement — unwritten as it may have been — that from that time forward members of the GOP in Congress were no longer free to consort with the enemy. The enemy, as it turned out, was anyone in the House ...
There are so many questions to ask this morning, assuming the government has been shut down by an out-of-control, bordering on stark-raving-mad House of Representatives that is not being led by its speaker, Kevin McCarthy.
If we are to forgive, there is so much to forget. Perhaps too much. Tonight, the Jewish world begins the observance of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It is the most solemn reminder that people make mistakes ...
Disinformation works so well because it preys on ignorance and latches onto emotional responses of fear and anger, especially if it pits you against someone else. As a result, we keep doom-scrolling, arguing with each other, and generating engagement on social media platforms.
In rains that poured months’ worth of water onto the desert floor in a matter of hours, man witnessed firsthand the “science” of climate change and the potential ...
