Joe Biden was elected president and soon enough reversed Donald Trump’s reduction of illegal southern border crossings to the point that we now have the highest influx […]
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Biden-Putin summit puts Russia to the test
by Trudy Rubin Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir […]
Maybe Putin learned something
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is […]
No outdoor masks for kids
Mayssa Abuali and Amy Beck We are living in a modern dystopia when, in the name of science, adults enjoy life unmasked while young children are masked; […]
A centrist take on Israel-Palestine
by Dave Anderson There is a familiar pattern of responses to the Israeli-Palestinian problem that mirrors most political problems. There are two positions that are diametrically opposed […]
VP’s callous border remarks do harm
by Jean Guerrero Associated Press Kamala Harris’ first international trip as vice president started in Guatemala with a blunt message for migrants: “Do not come,” she said, […]
Advice to Dems on voting rights
by Doyle McManus The Democrats’ sprawling voting rights bill, known on Capitol Hill as HR 1, is dead. Officially, the bill is still clinging to life. But […]
Big Food wants us addicted to junk food
by Michael Moss Robert Goldstein, a hedge fund manager in New York, was getting huge cravings for sweets when he came across a tropical plant called Gymnema […]
Yes, we should still talk about ‘defunding the police’
by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington Millions of people have celebrated former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the murder of George Floyd as a validation of the […]
Garland’s DOJ not anti-Trump
by Michael McGough In recent days the U.S. Justice Department has taken positions that have disappointed Democrats and others because they defend legal arguments that the Trump […]
