by Stephen J. Lyons Two weekends ago, crocuses bloomed in our Midwest garden. Temperatures reached 70 degrees. In the middle of the night, we experienced our first […]
Author: Syndicated Columnist
Unforced GOP errors could help Democrats
by Carl P. Leubsdorf The Democrats face a tough fight to retain their tenuous hold on the U.S. Senate, but they’ve gotten some unexpected help in recent […]
The IRS must be properly funded; here’s why
by Alexander R.M. Boyle The Internal Revenue Service is the government agency that taxpayers “love to hate,” but starving it to death is bad for the country. […]
Free speech and press need freedom of information
by Kevin Goldberg “The right to speak and the right to print, without the right to know, are pretty empty.” These are the words of Harold Cross, […]
Journalism and truth telling in wartime
by Rob Okun Brent Renaud. Marina Ovsyannikova. One a US filmmaker killed by Russian troops on March 13 while working on a documentary about refugees. The other, […]
I nearly died from COVID. Now I’m letting go of the fear
by David Lat Two years ago, I was in a hospital bed on the 15th floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, dying of COVID-19. A previously […]
Losing, desperate Putin can be terrifying
by Hal Brands The war in Ukraine is getting more dangerous, in part because it is going better than Ukraine’s supporters could have imagined. President Joe Biden […]
Russia shouldn’t write an Iran deal
by Jay Ambrose The United States and Iran had been negotiating a new nuclear deal, and Iran was finally ready to say, OK, here is what we […]
Two years of pandemic and counting
by Robin Abcarian Has it really been two years since life as we knew it came to a screeching halt? In the third week of March 2020, […]
Meanwhile, somewhere in America …
by Tony Norman Ryan Coogler prizes discretion. One of Hollywood’s most successful directors for more than a decade, he has never had his name attached to a […]