Don’t give in to the couch!
Editorial from the Chicago Tribune editorial board These days, people watch movies on their iPhones, their tablets and laptops, and of course in... Read more.
Expand Pell Grants to open higher ed doors
Editorial from the Seattle Times editorial board This year’s pandemic-fueled economic downturn has not been felt equally throughout the working... Read more.
Renée Flaherty and Daryl James: Daycare workers need help, not hassles, during pandemic
Parents trust Dale Sorcher, and toddlers love her. But the daycare police in Washington, D.C., want her fired. Sorcher has done nothing wrong. She has worked at... Read more.
Kiki Monifa: Kwanzaa during the pandemic
Many people have aptly described 2020 as “unprecedented.” It was the year the nation’s twin pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism were... Read more.
Doing hard work in Swampscott
Fifty Swampscott residents were deep into their Dec. 4 conversation about systemic racism when they heard discussion facilitator Tamy-Feé Meneide use the words... Read more.
Biden can bring hospital data back to the CDC
Editorial from the Bloomberg Opinion editorial board With more than 100,000 COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized, cases still rising in most... Read more.
Thank you, vaccine warriors
Editorial from the Los Angeles Times editorial board For the past eight years, Dec. 14 has marked one of the most tragic moments in recent... Read more.
Helping forgotten nursing homes
Editorial from the Chicago Tribune How will history look back at our national handling of the virus within nursing homes? Not kindly. According... Read more.
Noah Smith: Buttigieg may finally give US infrastructure its due
Former mayor and one-time presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been tapped to be President-elect Joe Biden’s transportation secretary. He’ll bring a much-needed... Read more.
Elline Lipkin: A holiday card for 2020
I’ve always been ambivalent about the holiday photo card — the snapshots of “here we are casually walking down a country road” or the ones on a beach at... Read more.