by Kerry Malawista Whenever a hurricane nears our shores, the government implements a system to track the disaster, including assigning a score on a scale of one […]
Opinion
Authenticity can’t be purchased by the foot
by Salena Zito Years ago, there was an urban arcade called The Bank located in Pittsburgh within a series of five old buildings that once housed financial […]
Farewell democracy?
Is this how democracy dies? Is this how the great American experiment ends? We should know by the end of the day, as today Congress meets to […]
2020: The Year of Reading Women
by Leonard Pitts I don’t mind admitting that I could really go for a good fistfight just now. Or a race against time to foil a terrorist […]
Is burning wood for power carbon-neutral?
by Tim Searchinger The mammoth pandemic stimulus and spending bill Congress passed last month includes billions of dollars to expand solar and wind energy. These are good […]
Remember when we almost got rid of single-use plastics?
Back in the before-times (pre-COVID-19 pandemic), there was a movement to reduce single-use plastic that had gained traction nationwide. People were making the conscious choice to take […]
Struggling with the guilt of spreading COVID
by Maryann J. Gray When someone unintentionally kills someone else, it’s usually because of a car crash. In 2020, COVID-19 could easily have been the No. 1 […]
Can there be a better 2021 in the ‘Divided’ States of America?
by Cal Thomas I don’t like making predictions for a new year because they are just guesses and, like palm readers, fortune-tellers and “experts,” guesses are often […]
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 […]
Once in office, can Biden bring back America’s brand?
by Ellen Halle In 2015, when I was 23, brimming with idealism and newly arrived in Kenya, taxi drivers would regularly strike up conversations with me about […]
