Opinion
Comment: How women age may be key to longer, healthier lives
Women, long ignored in studies, are revealing new areas of study regarding human longevity.
Opinion
Comment: Canada lost its measles-free status; U.S. likely next
The increase in infections comes as U.S. health efforts have fallen to a cycle of anti-science policy.
Opinion
Comment: What states are doing to save their property taxes
It’s the fairest tax out there, but states are fiddling with fixes to avoid angering homeowners. It’s tricky.
Opinion
Comment: What climate ‘realists’ miss are pledges’ quiet wins
Climate fatalists should consider that nations committed to reductions are meeting their targets.
Opinion
Comment: Too many kids can’t read; blame lack of spelling tests
Leaving the task to spellcheck holds back kids’ skill and love of reading. Spelling is key to comprehension.
Opinion
Comment: Shutdown raises profile of childcare as an issue
With work requirements on or coming for SNAP and Medicaid, more families will rely on Head Start.
Opinion
Comment: Home Depot needs to confront its ICE problem
The day laborers it attracts aren’t employees, but customers expect to hire their help when the need it.
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Comment: Ignoring Trump, stock market believes in climate crisis
Green energy and cleantech indices are outperforming the overall market. You can partially thanks AI’s demand.
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Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn’t hurt economy; they grew it
Even as U.S. population and the economy grew substantially, greenhouse gas emissions stayed constant.
Opinion
Comment: From opposite ends of crime, a plea for justice reform
A survivor of crime and an incarceree support a bill to forge better outcomes for both communities.
Opinion
Comment: Misnamed Fix Our Forest Act would worsen wildfire risk
The U.S. Senate bill doesn’t fund proven strategies and looks to increase harvest in protective forests.
Opinion
Comment: City governments should stay out of the grocery market
Rather than run its own grocery stores, government should get out of the way of private companies.
Opinion
Comment: Epstein is an unreliable narrator; but then so is Trump
This week’s release of emails raises concerns and doubts that need a fuller disclosure to get to the…
Opinion
Comment: Red states may rue decision to gerrymander districts
The GOP weakened some seats to gain an advantage in others, but its 2024 coalition of voters may…
Opinion
Comment: Pennies’ end brings necesssary change to change
Not making cents — and nickels, too — makes financial sense for the country. Get used to rounding.
Opinion
Comment: Here’s what ‘losing’ shutdown looks like for Democrats
They didn’t get an ACA deal, but they kept the economic message, leaving the GOP to answer for…
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Comment: Supreme Court’s silence on gay marriage speaks volumes
Dobbs removed a block in the Jenga tower of ‘substantive due rights.’ The same-sex marriage block appears safe.
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Comment: Congress’ inaction on health care comes with human costs
If ACA subsidies expire, access to affordable health care will end for millions of Americans.
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Comment: Loss of SNAP hitting vulnerable seniors especially hard
There’s nothing frugal about forcing our elders to choose between rent, medicine and food.
Opinion
Comment: C.S. Lewis had a warning for evangelicals on politics
Christians should be wary if they find themselves comfortably at home in one party or the other.