The Washington Post Only about 40 percent of Guatemala’s more than 8 million registered voters cast ballots in the Central American country’s national election on last week Sunday. If low turnout for only the sixth vote since the…
Posted: 19 August 2019 [01:53 PM] Posted: 19 August 2019 [01:53 PM] The Washington Post You’re a single working parent, or a stay-at-home dad, or a grandmother assigned to babysit for the day. You’re absent-minded or type-A, rich or poor or somewhere in between. Regardless of wealth, gender, age,…
Posted: 19 August 2019 [01:51 PM] Michael Reagan Dove season opens in California and across the U.S. on Sept. 1. For as long as I can remember, all I had to do when dove season rolled around each year was oil my 1970s-vintage…
Posted: 19 August 2019 [01:50 PM] The Washington Post When Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., spoke about Medicare-for-all at the July 30 Democratic presidential debate, he talked about how it would improve coverage for people currently receiving it. “For senior citizens, it will finally include dental care,…
Posted: 18 August 2019 [08:23 PM] Russia has suffered a string of military accidents this summer. In early July, a fire aboard a secret deep-water submersible killed 14 people. On Aug. 5, an ammunition depot in the Krasnoyarsk region exploded, creating a massive fireball. The most…
Posted: 18 August 2019 [08:20 PM] Regardless of industry, today’s workers are bound by a common anxiety: their jobs will one day be performed by robots. While the threat is more imminent for some than for others, nearly everyone will need new skills in order to…
Posted: 16 August 2019 [06:24 PM] Editorial When it comes to sheer courage of her convictions, Loujain al-Hathloul deserves high recognition. As an activist for women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, she pushed hard to win what is taken for granted in the modern world: the right…
Posted: 16 August 2019 [06:22 PM] Editorial Recent gun massacres - meaning this month’s massacres, not the previous month’s - have elicited a flurry of words from the gun lobby’s political spokesmen in Washington. President Donald Trump, elected with the help of an unprecedented outlay by…
Posted: 15 August 2019 [02:34 PM] Special To The Washington Post Tuesday was to be the day - in the morning, because everything was taken care of. The goodbyes had been said, the tears shed, the coffin handmade. In the spring of 2018, Dick Shannon, a…
Posted: 15 August 2019 [02:33 PM] Special to The Washington Post One of the odder aspects of Donald Trump’s presidency is the way in which he has alienated the very voting blocs he claims to love the most. Trump has proclaimed that he is the…
Posted: 15 August 2019 [02:32 PM] The Washington Post During any other administration, it would be a front-page scandal. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt last month tapped William Perry Pendley, an anti-government zealot who has not been Senate-approved for any position, to lead the Bureau…
Posted: 15 August 2019 [02:32 PM] Bloomberg Opinion A scandal-tarred governor resigns after huge protests. His handpicked successor is installed without the legislature’s full support. When that’s ruled unconstitutional, the office passes to the justice secretary, next in line but previously the target of…
Posted: 14 August 2019 [02:12 PM] The Washington Post When the world’s population reaches 10 billion in 2050, how will everyone get fed? Actually, a recent report underscored, the challenge is harder: How will everyone get fed without frying the planet? Climate change is…
Posted: 14 August 2019 [02:12 PM] The Providence Journal Right whales are among the most fascinating and beloved creatures on earth. In adulthood, they can be bigger than a bus, 50 feet long and nearly 70 tons, with enormous heads that measure up to…
Posted: 14 August 2019 [02:11 PM] The Washington Post If, by some crazy chance, you wanted to be well-informed these past few days about the sudden death of Jeffrey Epstein, there was a way. The minute you heard the news on Saturday morning that the financier…
Posted: 14 August 2019 [02:11 PM] Race Imboden Special To The Washington Post On Friday, in Lima, Peru, I stood at the top of an awards podium with my teammates and received a gold medal for fencing in the 2019 Pan-American Games. The room wasn’t crowded,…
Posted: 13 August 2019 [04:13 PM] The Washington Post In two world cities, a defiant brand of people power is standing tall against authoritarian rule. For the fifth consecutive weekend, protesters massed in Moscow, clamoring for opposition candidates to be allowed on the ballot for…
Posted: 13 August 2019 [04:12 PM] Dan Blanchard Dear Granddaddy, what’s something you’re glad you taught yourself? -Caesar. Well, Caesar, I can think of a few things I taught myself that I’m glad about. Things that I’m happy that I now know how to…
Posted: 13 August 2019 [04:12 PM] The Washington Post The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the accused sex trafficker, represents an unforgivable failure by the federal prison system. Attorney General William Barr all but said so on Monday, remarking that he was appalled that…
Posted: 13 August 2019 [04:11 PM] The Washington Post Reem Mohamed Desouky and her 13-year-old son Moustafa stepped off a plane in Cairo last month to visit relatives in the city. But Desouky, who is a dual U.S.-Egyptian national, never made it to her…
Posted: 13 August 2019 [04:11 PM] The Washington Post Attention left-leaning billionaires: Do you want to put money into the 2020 campaign in a way that will really make a difference? Here’s some news to think about from a Washington Post report: “Stacey Abrams is…
Posted: 12 August 2019 [01:39 PM] The Washington Post What does it mean that July was the hottest month ever recorded? One could explain it away as a blip - if it did not come in the context of steadily warming average global temperatures over the…
Posted: 12 August 2019 [01:39 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Generally speaking, when a government is making emergency plans to safeguard water supplies, stockpile vital medicines, manage food shortages, prepare for civil unrest and exploit arcane procedural devices to stay in power, things are not going…
Posted: 12 August 2019 [01:38 PM] The Washington Post For the second time in his presidency, President Donald Trump is threatening to buck the National Rifle Association on gun control. The first time - after Parkland - he talked tough and did nothing to back it…
Posted: 12 August 2019 [01:37 PM] The Washington Post America is failing its children. Future generations will look back at how we treat our kids and be appalled at the way we kept them in cages, refused to protect them from sexual predators and drilled…
Posted: 11 August 2019 [09:06 PM] Six hundred and twenty-nine days. That’s how long it’s been since two U.S. Park Police officers opened fire on an unarmed 25-year-old accountant named Bijan Ghaisar, hitting him repeatedly in the head and killing him, after he was involved in…
Posted: 11 August 2019 [09:05 PM] Markets are still trying to absorb the impact of President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war with China - and Beijing’s inevitable retaliation. Angry that China failed to deliver the increased agricultural purchases which, he claims, it…
Posted: 11 August 2019 [09:00 PM] Special To The Washington Post Government officials, Republicans and Democrats, are calling last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso domestic terrorism. This is correct; according to FBI officials, more U.S. deaths have been caused by domestic terrorists than international ones…
Posted: 11 August 2019 [08:59 PM] The Washington Post The NFL preseason has begun, and so, too, have the political spats related to it. This time, it’s President Donald Trump and a donor of his who are taking the heat, with the left end of the…
Posted: 09 August 2019 [01:54 PM] The Plattsburgh Press-Republican When the founding fathers of our remarkable nation wrestled for an astoundingly brief period in 1787 to conceive and compose our Constitution as the outline of our government, they overcame mountainous disagreements to “invent” democracy…
Posted: 09 August 2019 [01:54 PM] The Wall Street Journal The Dayton and El Paso shootings have spurred familiar calls for more gun control, and by all means let’s have a debate. But the focus should be on denying weapons to the potential killers…
Posted: 09 August 2019 [01:53 PM] The Washington Post An agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement tried to reassure adults comforting a 12-year-old girl that the girl, Angie, would see her mother again. The mother was one of nearly 700 people arrested in Mississippi on…
Posted: 09 August 2019 [01:53 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Theodora Ross, a cancer geneticist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, says that to Silicon Valley types, she is like a taxi driver competing against the more convenient, Uber-like direct-to-consumer companies such as 23andMe. “They think…
Posted: 08 August 2019 [08:03 PM] The Washington Post There is a lot Congress could do to better protect U.S. elections, and a lot Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has not allowed lawmakers to achieve. Now, two senators are offering one more opportunity.…
Posted: 08 August 2019 [08:03 PM] Corpus Christi Caller-Times We ask because of what happened Saturday in El Paso, Texas, where 22 people were killed - and, several hours later, in Dayton, Ohio, where nine were killed. We ask because the mayor of El…
Posted: 08 August 2019 [08:02 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Let me make a terrible confession. In a kitchen cupboard I keep an enormous trove of what the news media keep telling me are single-use plastic bags. The trove exists because the description is, well, rubbish. A 13-gallon…
Posted: 08 August 2019 [08:01 PM] Bloomberg Opinion A common refrain among opponents of social-welfare programs is that they’re too costly and act as a drag on future growth because someday taxpayers will have to pick up the tab. That’s a crude and short-sighted view: It’s…
Posted: 07 August 2019 [06:58 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump controls the greatest loudspeaker in the world. On Monday, he said from the White House that “our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy.” He added, “Hatred warps the mind, ravages…
Posted: 07 August 2019 [06:57 PM] The Washington Post One of the easiest ways to combat climate change is to stop tearing down old trees. This is why it is everyone’s problem that new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to chop away at…
Posted: 07 August 2019 [06:57 PM] Bloomberg Opinion After the El Paso shooter posted a manifesto on the anonymous message board 8chan, the network provider, Cloudflare, suspended the site’s account, taking it offline - at least for now. Whether you applaud or oppose the action, it…
Posted: 07 August 2019 [06:57 PM] Bloomberg opinion Long on a roll, right-wing nationalists finally seem to be overreaching. Evidence came from two different sources this week: India and Britain. Brexit, advocated and promoted by mostly English nationalists, always threatened the breakup of Great Britain. New…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [07:58 PM] In a move that summed up a lot that’s off-kilter about college sports, the University of Connecticut reached an agreement last week on an exit fee from its current home, the American Athletic Conference. In exchange for $17 million, UConn…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [07:55 PM] For a moment on Monday, President Donald Trump offered a teasing hope that he would jolt the Republican Party into easing its roadblock on even the most obvious and popular gun-control measures. Following a grisly weekend of mass shootings, Trump…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [07:53 PM] The Washington Post Late Monday afternoon, I spoke with a colleague about the challenge of summarizing President Donald Trump’s response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. On the one hand, Trump said in a…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [07:51 PM] Is it safe for me and my wife to return from our vacation in Eastern Europe? I don’t know how many Americans who tuned into the two Democratic presidential debates on CNN actually paid attention or were able to stay…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [04:33 PM] The Washington Post Late Monday afternoon, I spoke with a colleague about the challenge of summarizing President Donald Trump’s response to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. On the one hand, Trump said in a…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [04:33 PM] Michael Regan Is it safe for me and my wife to return from our vacation in Eastern Europe? I don’t know how many Americans who tuned into the two Democratic presidential debates on CNN actually paid attention or…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [04:33 PM] The Washington Post For a moment on Monday, President Donald Trump offered a teasing hope that he would jolt the Republican Party into easing its roadblock on even the most obvious and popular gun-control measures. Following a grisly…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [04:32 PM] Dan Blanchard Dear Granddaddy, why do we need to grow up? Nancy-teen. Wow! That’s a very good question, Nancy. It sounds like you don’t really want to grow up. And I can’t blame you because sometimes I don’t…
Posted: 06 August 2019 [04:32 PM] The Connecticut Post In a move that summed up a lot that’s off-kilter about college sports, the University of Connecticut reached an agreement last week on an exit fee from its current home, the American Athletic Conference. In…
