March 30, 2022, 6:01am Columns
A state capital gains tax has been a hot topic for years, ever since Democrats started talking about it as a way to raise money for key services while evening out what they view as a regressive tax system. Read story
March 29, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The war in Ukraine, which just entered its second month, shows no sign of ending soon. Read story
March 28, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Vladimir and Yevgenia are two fervently patriotic Russians in their 60s who are consumed these days, in very different ways, by what is happening to the desperate but valiant ordinary people of Ukraine. Read story
March 28, 2022, 6:01am Columns
No excuse can be tolerated for Washington’s disjointed, inadequate response to sexual misconduct on college campuses. Read story
March 28, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Frank Abrokwa is the repeat offender who, to the shock of many, was released after smearing his own feces on the face of a woman waiting in a Bronx subway station. Apparently, nothing on his long rap sheet required bail under New York State’s bail reform laws. Read story
March 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
I don’t have the solution to homelessness in our community. But it likely is more complicated than a lot of people would like to believe. Read story
March 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
The Legislature proved ambitious in its 60-day session, addressing many priorities. The state needed a long-range infrastructure boost and fixes to poorly constructed laws aimed at policing reform and long-term medical care. Legislators passed bills to defuse the most critical needs in each of these areas. Read story
March 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Earlier this month, Mikhail Gorbachev celebrated his 91st birthday in obscurity at his home near Moscow, the forgotten leader of Russia’s brief, unsuccessful move toward democracy at home and on its borders. Read story
March 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
In his bizarre rant on why he had to invade and savage a peaceful neighbor, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of trying to force “false values” on Russians. Such attitudes, he said, would “erode … our people from within” and “are directly leading to degradation and degeneration.” Read story
March 27, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Recently a Washington conservative political candidate called for a Black man to be hanged, and also for judges and prosecutors to be shot. And that’s not even the most disturbing part of this story. Read story
