by John M. Crisp Damar Hamlin, a safety for the Buffalo Bills, almost died on Jan. 2. His heart stopped after a blow to his chest during […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
The coming El Niño could be a glimpse of a grim future
by Mark Gongloff Thanks to El Niño, the world is about to experience something like time travel to the year 2050. It won’t be pleasant. But rather […]
Being laid off is devastating. Yet society never measures that toll
by Les Leopold More than 150,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2022, according to one estimate, and an additional 23,000 have been laid off since the […]
Academic drama and ‘Islamophobia’
by Gene Lyons Chances are, your humble, obedient servant here will never be invited to teach at Hamline University, a Methodist school in St. Paul, Minn. For […]
Absurd battle over the debt ceiling
by Robert Reich Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the federal government will hit the limit on total federal debt on Jan. 19. After that, the Treasury […]
GOP wants to cut Medicare. Here’s how real leaders would handle the deficit
by LZ Granderson Our population was getting older and broker. Between 1900 and 1950, the number of senior citizens in America had grown from 3 million to […]
Who says Washington, D.C., can’t keep a secret?
by Martin Schram The art and craft of investigative journalism often feels like a never ending work-in -progress. And that’s the way it was this week, after […]
The folly of the criminal mind
by Gene Lyons People who focus upon the motives of alleged killers like Bryan Kohberger, the Ph.D. candidate arrested for slaughtering four college students in Moscow, Idaho, […]
Why misogynists like Andrew Tate are going mainstream
by Jared Yates Sexton Before Andrew Tate was arrested by Romanian authorities on charges of human trafficking, he was operating another problematic business: peddling toxic masculinity to […]
Dear Dry January, we need to have a talk
by Naomi Ishisaka A lot of people I know are weeks into what has now become an annual tradition: Dry January. The concept behind Dry January is […]
