On a daily basis, President Donald Trump hurls threats at Mexico — close the border, levy new tariffs, arrest millions. But history shows it’s smarter to recognize […]
Opinion
Gulag helped kill Egypt’s only elected leader
When Egypt’s first and only elected president, Mohamed Mursi, dropped dead in a courtroom last week, official Washington barely noticed. President Donald Trump was focused on the […]
Family planning good investment
Malcolm Potts And Alisha Graves Los Angeles Times In the late 1960s, for a brief moment, population growth commanded the kind of political, popular and academic focus […]
Lethal season finally over for horses at track
The grisly winter racing season at Santa Anita finally, mercifully, came to a close Sunday, with 30 horses dead from racing or training. The latest death was […]
Do you really want to travel the world that much?
Hypertourism has become the curse of desirable places all over the world. It refers to the swarms of tourists who clog the plazas and narrow streets of […]
June 26 letters to the editor
Let people vote for or against annexation The Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary defines inconsistency as: “(of an argument) containing elements that are opposed and do not match, […]
State’s population losses will cost us for years to come
It’s not just the state’s cities, it’s the state. Not only have the states two largest cities (for now) lost population every year since 2000, but the […]
Republicans get on same page, finally
It took a while — ok, it took six months — but Republicans in the state Senate, the House of Delegates and the Republican governor finally got […]
Likability: Never underestimate it
Lynne Agress The Baltimore Sun As we near the 2019 Democratic debates, I clearly remember one January 2008 Democratic presidential debate in New Hampshire — the site […]
Chernobyl: Who owns the risks
A recent book “Midnight in Chernobyl” and an HBO miniseries on Chernobyl have brought to light the nuclear power plant disaster that took place 33 years ago. […]
