State, county and city leaders faced a big test in the aftermath of the tragic killing of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old man shot by former Brooklyn Center […]
Guest Editorials
Pause on J&J vax shows that safety system working
The vaccine safety monitoring system works. And, federal health officials take swift action when a rare but serious potential health complication surfaces. Those are the important takeaways […]
America’s depleted industrial base is a security crisis
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address is most famous for its warning against the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex. But Eisenhower also stressed the defense industry’s […]
Universal pre-K should pay for itself in long run
President Joe Biden’s massive American Jobs Plan is likely to come in two parts: A traditional transportation package as well as a domestic package that includes, among […]
FCC, restore limits to media ownership
The U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s wrongheaded decision to allow more media consolidation. This comes amid a crisis in local journalism, an […]
Vaccine clinics at schools can solve multiple problems
A new report about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected Los Angeles Unified schools doesn’t contain much that wasn’t already known: The past year was an academic calamity […]
Don’t scrap the filibuster. Mend it
The Senate will soon be asked to vote on contentious bills to tighten gun controls and reform the country’s electoral systems. As things stand, these and other […]
Cameras build public trust in Chauvin trial
The eyes of the world are on Minneapolis. On its citizens, as they react to the trial of Derek Chauvin, accused of murdering George Floyd last year […]
We must improve access to ballots for all Americans
Last year’s election was a triumph for participatory democracy, with a record 74,216,154 Americans voting for Donald Trump, and blessedly, an even larger record of 81,268,924 choosing […]
Trump’s organ donation policy fix would save lives
The U.S. has a deadly shortage of donor kidneys, livers and other organs for transplant. The wait list is about 110,000 patients long, and every day 20 […]