Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has backtracked on his previous suggestion that states in financial trouble should simply go bankrupt and now says he is “open” to considering funding for […]
Opinion
The two faces of Joe Biden: Fellow Democrats have voiced concerns
Even if the sexual assault allegations by former Joe Biden staff member Tara Reade turn out to be false, there are still problems the former vice president faces. The first […]
Payroll protection loan discrimination
The coronavirus didn’t create the racial wealth gap, but it’s doing an excellent job of making it worse. Advocates fear the economic shock waves from the novel coronavirus will be […]
Widespread testing won’t end pandemic if it is inaccurate
A surge of new coronavirus antibody tests, some of them used in studies that appear to show a far greater rate of infection and recovery than we’d imagined, has set […]
Artwork deserves top -notch framing
When I moved into my house, I taped some postcards and prints I’d collected while traveling abroad to my walls, always intending to swap them out for framed works. That […]
Breathe and hold on. Hope is what tomorrow is for
“Tomorrow, robins will sing.” — Stevie Wonder “Tomorrow there’ll be sunshine, and all this darkness past.” — Bruce Springsteen “Hurry, tomorrow. Tomorrow, I need you now.” — The Temptations In […]
WWII had universal child care. Why not now?
Historically, times of crisis have brought out the best in U.S. policymaking. The Great Depression ushered in the New Deal. The Cuyahoga River burning due to industrial pollution in 1969 […]
Clean up COVID-19 mess aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt
Sailors go through boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes near North Chicago, Ill., but things are different due to COVID-19. The current class of recruits was sent to Great […]
Transportation workers need to be given better protection
Bus drivers across the country are dying from COVID-19. We need to do more to protect them. On March 24, a Detroit bus driver posted a video complaining about a […]
New words to describe strange times
Among the many things changed by the sad, eerie moment we’re living in is our vocabulary. We bat around words most of us had never heard or spoken until a […]
