by Cathy F. Young My father, who served as a Navy officer in the South Pacific, shared fascinating World War II stories with me. With ensuing history classes, I became […]
Opinion
Creeps hunt kids on social media
We have entered a new social media hell, where online creeps run sadistic schemes targeting high school kids. Since late 2021, their ruses have driven at least 20 young people, […]
Home-schooled girl found dead. When will enough be enough?
Last week, a 14-year-old girl was found dead in her Boone County home. Her body was “skeletal” and “emaciated,” and it’s reported she starved to death. Her mother has been […]
Ukraine aid shows MAGA wing hasn’t cowed Speaker Johnson
by Patricia Lopez House Speaker Mike Johnson endured a titanic struggle to get Ukraine aid through the House, one that demonstrates the benefits of cooperation and the pitfalls of extremism. […]
Needed: Regime change in Iran
Every approach to curtailing Iran from its threats and behavior toward Israel and other countries has failed. In 2023, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials […]
Govs. should be wary to discourage unionization
In an unusual joint statement, the Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Tennessee assailed the United Auto Workers union as it proceeds with a unionization vote […]
Stop saying ‘immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want to do’
by Fernanda Santos The deaths of six immigrant workers in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26 sparked the kind of collective empathy that usually follows […]
Civic engagement should not be performed ‘All By Myself’
by Sam Daley-Harris With the death of singer-songwriter Eric Carmen last month and Earth Day yesterday, I got to thinking about Carmen’s song “All By Myself” and how deeper forms […]
USC valedictorian earned the right to speak. Let her
In 2022, at the University of Southern California commencement, valedictorian Adam Karelin delivered a stirring poem against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2021, valedictorian Tianna Shaw Wakeman spoke of living […]
Jan. 6 case will test the Supreme Court’s hypocrisy
by Noah Feldman Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared skeptical that prosecutors could use the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to go after Jan. 6 rioters. It’s a closely watched case […]
