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Sun, May 22, 2022 | 22:50

Ukrainians on front lines say 'we aren't leaving'

The airport in Ukraine's second-largest port is shut. A Moscow-led “rebellion” around the city in 2014 made it too dangerous for planes to fly in.

2022-02-15 16:35

GOP's plan to steal 2024 election

To win in 2024, the Republican presidential candidate must recapture three of the five states that flipped from Donald Trump in 2016 to Joe Biden in 2020. With this goal in mind, GOP legislatures in these states have muscled through dozens of voter suppression bills on party-line votes.

2022-02-15 16:33

Possibility of vaccine for very young children offers new hope

“Dr. Szilagyi, I really worry about when I will be able to get my daughter vaccinated.”

2022-02-14 16:45

Is civility really out of date in American politics?

I wrote a column recently in defense of civility in politics. I didn't argue that you have to be best friends with the people you disagree with, just that you shouldn't go on Facebook to gloat and crow over the deaths of anti-vaxxers who succumbed to COVID. It seemed pretty obvious to me that saying “screw you” to the dead and their families wouldn't help get anyone vaccinate...

2022-02-13 16:46

End fossil fuel leasing on public lands

With our planet and communities at stake, now is the time to put an end, once and for all, to fossil fuel extraction on public lands. The science is clear: to fight the climate crisis, we must dramatically reduce carbon pollution. And, to reduce carbon pollution, we need to stop it at the source.

2022-02-13 16:45

How to save democracy - elect fewer jerks

Having recently completed my 40th year as a card-carrying journalist, I feel compelled to share the one small nugget of wisdom I have gleaned from all those misspent hours hanging out with mayors, governors, legislators and other ne'er-do-wells of elected office. They are not all the same.

2022-02-10 16:45

Fitting vaccine conspiracies into a philosophy of fiction

As a philosophy professor specializing in language, it is my job to conceptually distinguish fiction from lies. Lies are falsehoods shared with the intent to deceive; fiction is falsehood shared without the intent to deceive. My academic work examines how it is that we think “Hamlet is a prince” is true while knowing that “Hamlet doesn't exist” is also true.

2022-02-09 16:24

Putin is testing America's commitment to Ukraine

Seven years after Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea and the United States' reaffirmation to support Ukraine's territorial integrity, more than 127,000 Russian troops are positioned on Ukraine's eastern border. Russia could double that number “in relatively short order” according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Warnings of imminent invasion, including from President ...

2022-02-08 16:31

Eat HNWIs! But don't call them rich

What do you think of the phrase “high net worth individuals” to refer to the people more commonly known as rich?

2022-02-07 16:34

Why Israel should stay out of Ukraine conflict

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid last Monday. According to the State Department's readout of the conversation, they discussed “shared challenges, in the face of potential Russian aggression against Ukraine.”

2022-02-07 16:23

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