June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Election-year proposals to liberalize marijuana laws aim to entice support from young voters. Yet greater latitude for growing, selling and consuming pot, and downplaying its dangers, would seriously harm young people and our communities. Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in New York is an ignoble first. No former president has ever been tried, much less found guilty, for felonies before. But Trump’s new status as a convicted felon probably won’t significantly affect his chances of winning… Read story
June 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As the election is getting closer, Donald Trump is sounding nuttier. Read story
May 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Somehow the undesired appears to have become the inevitable. Read story
May 29, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When reports of an upside-down flag flying in the yard of a Supreme Court justice hit the news last week, it reinforced a lesson learned 35 years ago from a local controversy. Read story
May 28, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Do sweeps of homeless encampments work? Or, as one aid worker put it, do they mostly scatter vulnerable people in “diaspora of misery”? Read story
May 27, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Rape is a well-documented tool of war. So it’s hard for me to understand the raging controversy over whether Hamas terrorists who killed more than 1,100 Israelis on Oct. 7 also inflicted rape and other sexual crimes on their victims as a “practice.” Read story
May 27, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When an Interstate 95 overpass collapsed in Philadelphia in June, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, responded with a master class in executive leadership. Read story
May 27, 2024, 6:01am Columns
To what extent should a transgender woman be treated the same as women who started life as female? That depends. Read story
May 27, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A week ago, Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s ultraconservative president, was flying home after participating in the opening of a new dam near the Iran-Azerbaijan border. Shortly after takeoff, Raisi’s helicopter went down in a mountainous area of the Iranian countryside. Once rescue teams were able to reach the crash site, it… Read story
