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April 25, 2024

Opinion Stories

  • Former president Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Friday, April 19, 2024, in New York. Jury selection in the hush money trial of former President Donald Trump is set to resume after a frenetic day that eventually saw all 12 jurors sworn in along with one alternate juror.
    Should jury in Trump’s case really remain anonymous?
    April 25, 2024
    What are we to make of the anonymous jury in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York? The practice has long had its critics ...
  • Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the Department of Homeland Security on Capitol Hill Thursday, April 18, 2024, in Washington.
    Weaponizing impeachment backfires on hapless Republicans
    April 25, 2024
    Maybe I’m going out on a limb here, but the hapless House Republicans have finally achieved something big: an end to tit-for-tat impeachments ...
  • Country taking dangerous turn
    April 25, 2024
    The one common denominator in all of these calls to arms is sitting in criminal court in New York. Despite his uncouthness, pathological lying, hypocrisy and history of avoiding paying workers by filing numerous bankruptcies, red hats continue to worship at the Temple of Trump ...
  • Election workers hold ballots during a recount of mail-in ballots at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in North Las Vegas.
    Guest column: Strengthen protections for election officials in Nevada, nationwide
    April 25, 2024
    Election officials in Nevada and across the country are essential to maintaining the democratic process. As a business owner in the Silver State, I recognize the importance of upholding a civic duty to improve my community and those around me — just as election workers uphold their civic duty by ...
  • Strong military is necessary
    April 25, 2024
    A stronger military, in the world today, is a necessity. We need to show any adversary that we have the capability to deter any aggression toward us. This cannot be accomplished by letting our military fall behind ...
  • Stop Russia’s momentum now
    April 25, 2024
    Winston Churchill described World War II as “the unnecessary war” because France and Britain had authority under the Treaty of Versailles to invade Germany in 1936 when Adolf Hitler entered the Rhineland with his then-small army ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.”
  • Elected officials failing America
    April 23, 2024
    At least 35-40% of Americans are strong believers in political fantasies and wild, false conspiracy theories.
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
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