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Wed, October 20, 2021 | 03:18

Shut down US tax havens

The Pandora Papers, released in early October, are the product of massive data leaks carefully analyzed by more than 600 journalists from around the world. They unmask the secretive ways that the world's super-wealthy hide trillions of dollars and dodge taxes - not just on some sandy Caribbean island, but right here in the United States.

2021-10-07 17:00

Looking for fiscal responsibility? Ask a Democrat

I think I am living in an alternate reality. How is it that one of the most outspoken, principled, fiscally conservative members of Congress is a Democrat? I might as well be writing that up is down, and black is white. Or perhaps more appropriately, that red is blue.

2021-10-07 16:45

US expulsion of Haitian asylum seekers a 'moral failure'

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas announced last week that 13,000 Haitian asylum seekers have been conditionally permitted to enter the United States, and 3,000 are in detention. The entry news is welcome, but ongoing detention of thousands of asylum seekers and other recent treatment of Haitians by the government are not acceptable.

2021-10-06 16:53

Even in US, freedom of assembly is under threat

In early September, a small group of women dressed in white and red protested in Minsk. They risked detainment, imprisonment and even torture in Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus simply for gathering publicly in the colors of the 1918 flag of the Belarusian People's Republic, a symbol of the current pro-democracy opposition movement. They covered their faces (also in red and whi...

2021-10-05 17:00

Schools should teach about slavery

The 1619 Project, critical race theory and other approaches to confronting the history and legacy of slavery in schools are in danger of being derailed by a culture war-fueled right-wing grievance industry.

2021-10-04 12:49

What Russian and German elections left

For those worried about the future of free and fair elections in this country, the Russian and German elections offer warnings of the future if GOP Trumpsters have their way.

2021-10-03 17:00

Stop misleading consumers about sad state of recycling

You've surely seen it before on a laundry detergent bottle label, printed on a ready-made salad bag or stamped onto the container of a thousand other products lining the shelves of grocery and retail stores: A symbol with three “chasing” arrows that form a triangle. It may be green or black. It might have a number between 1 and 7 inside the triangle, which corresponds to the ...

2021-10-03 17:00

Vaccines work and call for booster shots doesn't change that

As President Joe Biden bared his arm Monday for his federally approved booster COVID-19 shot in front of reporters and cameras, he made a point that many corners of the nation should heed.

2021-09-30 17:00

Muslim women need greater breast-cancer awareness

A breast cancer diagnosis does not have to be a death warrant. Early detection is the key to saving lives. Mammography is the easiest and most important screening test for breast cancer. But many minority women forego regular screenings.

2021-09-29 17:00

US-China face-off is looking like Cold War

President Joe Biden hosted a summit meeting Friday that could turn out to be a watershed - but if you weren't watching, you might have missed it.

2021-09-28 16:49

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