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Thu, July 7, 2022 | 16:05

Where are COVID tests Newsom promised for schools?

The omicron coronavirus variant was already spreading rapidly when California schools let out last month for winter break. Health officials across the nation warned that the spread was bound to accelerate as people gathered over the holidays.

2022-01-06 16:27

My resolution for 2022: Challenge American obstinocracy with intelligence

Halfway along on my exercise routine, I spied a banner high up a flagpole: 6-inch-tall letters that spelled out, “Let's go, Brandon,” red and white on a blue background.

2022-01-05 16:49

Fearing the worst, hoping for the best: My 2022 predictions for the nation

We can argue whether 2021 was “the least bad year of the last two years,” as “The Daily Show” claimed, considering that it began with a bloody insurrection at the Capitol and ended with U.S. COVID-19 deaths exceeding 820,000. Yet rather than debate the past, let's look ahead to 2022 and what it could hold for the nation and its riven social fabric.

2022-01-04 17:00

Welcome to new, confusing Middle East

On Dec. 12 last year, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett paid the first official trip by an Israeli leader to the United Arab Emirates, where he laughed and joked with its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed.

2022-01-03 15:31

America's sick and costly health care system

Forget car dealers; Americans are flummoxed by the marketplace for health care. Two new reports published last week show that consumers are increasingly anxious about medical costs and access to care, with record numbers signing up for subsidized health coverage. The system is not working for the majority of Americans, and the inequities are only getting worse.

2022-01-03 15:26

Pass democracy-saving voting rights law

It's time to start panicking about the possibility of losing democracy in the United States.

2022-01-02 14:32

End solitary in all its forms

As I woke up for my daily job as a prisoner at the Washington State Reformatory, I drank a cup of freeze-dried coffee and watched the local morning news. One story instantly caught my attention: The reporter said the Washington Department of Corrections, or WDOC, had decided to stop using segregation as punishment. Could this even be possible? I convinced myself that I must h...

2021-12-30 16:57

Future of Afghanistan lies in our hands

Afghanistan is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. In addition to financial and political turmoil, the worst drought in living memory has put nearly 23 million Afghans - over half the population - at risk of severe food insecurity. Last month, as the head of the Baltimore-based global charity Catholic Relief Services (CRS), I traveled to Afghanistan to better understa...

2021-12-30 16:45

Worst-case scenarios - unasked, unresolved

Outside, millions of desperate people have been standing for hours in lines stretching around the corners of America's city streets and suburban strip malls. Inside, others have been searching the internet - and getting kicked off by overloaded websites and ticked-off by under-informing ones.

2021-12-29 16:43

US needs to mandate vaccines for domestic flights, too

Over the coming days, millions of Americans are expected to board an airplane heading for someplace to spend the holidays - very possibly in the company of the newest and wiliest strain of the coronavirus, omicron.

2021-12-29 16:38

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