Last Monday night, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez broadcast live to at least 150,000 Instagram followers, telling — in raw, emotional detail — how she hid as rioters stormed […]
Guest Editorials
Plan to ‘cancel rent’ could miss low-income tenants
California is about to cancel rent for millions of low-income tenants throughout the state. But it may not go far enough. Under a plan released Monday and […]
Do Black lives matter to Congress?
The death of George Floyd and the summer of protests that followed led members of Congress to try to mandate basic changes in police practices nationwide. But […]
How can someone live at the airport for three months?
Questions abound in the bizarre tale surrounding Aditya Singh, the man found living at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for nearly three months. The biggest is the most […]
Can Sen. Hawley lose his license to practice law in Missouri?
After disgracing his office by making dangerous and entirely false claims about nonexistent voter fraud, could U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley lose his law license? At least 60 […]
Climate change still greatest crisis
As the nation deals with the tragic drama of President Donald Trump’s final days in office, and the world reels under a now-yearlong assault by a virus, […]
American tumult has global impact
News of Trump-inspired mobs ransacking the U.S. Capitol last week reverberated worldwide, alarming allies and delighting adversaries as it inverted the concept of American exceptionalism. “We currently […]
Last gasps of Hong Kong democracy
Dozens of pro-democracy politicians and activists in Hong Kong were rounded up around dawn Wednesday as the U.S. Congress was preparing for a contentious fight over the […]
America incapable of protecting its temple of democracy
The hostile invasion and occupation of the Capitol on Wednesday by a riotous pro-Trump mob served as public notice to every American, every nervous ally, every plotting […]
Obama’s return
We have not heard much from the 44th president of the United States during the last four years. Now he has reappeared. The occasion is the publication […]
