Commentary

Comment: Companies should enforce ‘term limits’ on tech titans

The longer they are in control, the more their reality-distortion fields affect their judgment.

Comment: Trade war will make us hotter, dirtier and poorer

Trump’s tariffs will cede clean tech innovation to China and others that will be difficult to rebuild.

Comment: How Colin Powell might react to Pentagon’s DEI purge

The child of Jamaican immigrants, Powell saw more power to motivate in optimism than in fear.

Comment: Large law firms must stand against Trump’s threats

Lawyers are critical to the judicial system’s checks. That withers if they bow to Trump to protect their firms.

Comment: Loss of funding for homeless youth would be costly

If state funding isn’t preserved, recent progress will be lost and costs elsewhere will increase.

Comment: The struggle to guide masculinity of boys, young men

Boys will always be boys, but now they’re dealing with indifference on one side and toxic messages on the other.

Comment: Why extending Trump tax cuts could bring more potholes

One way of ‘paying’ for the cuts would be ending municipal bonds’ tax-free status, making them less profitable.

Longshoremen offload containers from the Queen B at Port Manatee in Palmetto, Fla., April 1, 2025. Businesses that had ordered the cargo on the vessel were doing all they could to get their purchases through U.S. customs before Wednesday, to ensure that they would not have to pay the new, higher levies. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)

Comment: Trading tariffs for global uncertainty

What the highest tariffs in decades could mean for U.S. maufacturing, jobs and the economy.

Longshoremen offload containers from the Queen B at Port Manatee in Palmetto, Fla., April 1, 2025. Businesses that had ordered the cargo on the vessel were doing all they could to get their purchases through U.S. customs before Wednesday, to ensure that they would not have to pay the new, higher levies. (Scott McIntyre/The New York Times)

Comment: Back bold plans to balance state budget without cuts

State lawmakers have proposed new revenues that fund schools and other work and make taxes more fair.

Comment: Federal funding cuts threaten fight against global disease

Diseases such as TB are easily treated. Withholding aid unnecessarily threatens lives around the world.

Comment: Proposal can ensure patients don’t get surprise bills

Legislation in Olympia would add emphasis to federal price transparency laws for hospital services.

Comment: Drug companies need to speak up about RFK Jr.’s FDA

With recent moves, companies are waking up to the fact that things are bad and could get worse.

Comment: Voters trumped cash in Wisconsin; keep it that way

Elon Musk’s $20 million to back a candidate failed. Strengthen laws to prevent campaigning by bribery.

Comment: Can we blame Mercator for Trump’s Greenland obsession?

To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria.

Comment: An ‘impossible trinity’ of goals for Trump’s tariffs

Trump wants revenue, manufacturing and foreign policy wins; he can’t get all three, if any.

Comment: What two Florida congressional races could reveal

Even if the GOP keeps two House seats, slim margins could indicate how the midterms might go.

Comment: Hegseth isn’t unholding standards he vowed he would

Veterans are among the most critical of the Defense secretary for his lapse of security and protocol.

Comment: Here’s the good USAID did and what it won’t do now

It’s aid programs allowed people to move on during and after upheaval, as we would do for any neighbor.

Comment: Has U.S. laid out ‘unwelcome’ mat for foreign tourists?

Horror stories of detained visitors are adding to apprehensions regarding travel to the U.S.

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Comment: What’s most critical to ‘critical thinking’? History

Without a strong grasp of history, there’s no basis for comparing information, false or otherwise.

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