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Wed, October 20, 2021 | 03:46

Want to reduce overdose rates? Treat poverty first

Overdose rates are higher in areas where people live in poverty and even higher among people of color living in poverty. In the last decade in Maryland, the proportion of opioid-overdose deaths involving Black people has continually risen, while the proportion involving white people has declined, mirroring nationwide trends. This past year, the disparity has worsened.

2021-07-25 17:00

Preparing for Tokyo's 'Quiet Olympics'

I didn't see much TV coverage of the U.S. Olympic track and field trials last month in Oregon. But one scene caught my eye. It was good “old” Allyson Felix, finishing second in the women's 400-meter run, earning her fifth trip to the Olympics.

2021-07-22 17:00

Stakes in Cuba for US and Florida

The widespread protests in Cuba mark a new challenge to the communist regime and a major test to the Biden administration. Thousands took to the streets in cities across the island Sunday, mounting a rare public rebuke to the authoritarian government. As it looks to respond, the Biden administration should focus on alleviating the suffering of the Cuban people. It also needs ...

2021-07-21 16:49

Climate crisis is worse for Latinx people

The warnings from Pachamama, the Mother Earth goddess of Incan mythology, about our abusing the only habitable planet we know are growing in intensity. The conditions for a new record season of heatwaves and wildfires keep piling up, and we, as Latinx people, must take special precautions to confront the upcoming weeks and months.

2021-07-20 17:00

Defend Israeli and Palestinian human rights workers

Just days after Israel's post-Netanyahu government was formed, the International Criminal Court swore in its new prosecutor, Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, who will take up the process begun by his predecessor to investigate both Hamas and Israel for war crimes. These investigations may include the most recent war in Israel and Gaza.

2021-07-19 16:14

Kamala Harris is making history again - as Republicans' prime campaign target

In North Carolina, Senate hopeful Pat McCrory vows to take on the “Harris-Biden administration” and thwart the vice president and Democrats “who want to radically change America for years to come.”

2021-07-18 15:01

Delta variant is coming for the unprotected

With vacations back on the schedule and weddings and other summer activities in full swing in Southern California, it's easy to forget that a pandemic is still raging.

2021-07-15 16:50

Biden needs to get real on Afghanistan exit to prevent Taliban takeover

The voice of my Afghan friend phoning from Herat was trembling. “The security situation is getting really worse,” she said. “We don't know what will happen tomorrow, or what will happen one hour from now. People are confused, scared, uncertain where to go.”

2021-07-14 17:00

Can billionaires exploring space spell 'murraya'?

Richard Branson scraped the edge of space Sunday, arriving via a supersonic plane built by Virgin Galactic, a company he created. In so doing, the man who made his bones by signing The Sex Pistols to Virgin Records in 1977 upstaged another driven billionaire, Jeff Bezos, who plans his own inaugural joyride July 20 aboard the spaceship New Shepard, owned by the Amazon mogul's ...

2021-07-14 17:00

Cuban people are on right side of history

Throughout the political landscape, our elected officials have called for support for the people of Cuba as they protest the tyrannical regime that denies them basic human rights, a communist rump state left over from the 20th-century Cold War.

2021-07-13 17:00

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