The burden and beauty of being Asian in America
Raja Krishnamoorthi Forget coffee. For Asian Americans, each morning begins with some sort of cognitive calculation about how to navigate potential biases we might... Read more.
More women are traveling for abortion. Fund it.
Lisa Jarvis When Miami recently experienced catastrophic rainfall that grounded flights for days, staff at the Women’s Emergency Network, an abortion fund that... Read more.
More debt is better than more billion-dollar climate disasters
Mark Gongloff There’s good debt and there’s bad debt. Good debt is a $465 million government loan for your fledgling electric-car company that helps it become... Read more.
Expect another closely divided Congress
Carl P. Leubsdorf After two years of bitter congressional conflict, both parties are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in hopes of gaining working majorities... Read more.
The Biden-Trump debate will be a demolition derby. But will it change the race?
Doyle McManus This week’s debate between President Joe Biden and Donald Trump won’t produce much in the way of civil dialogue over the nation’s... Read more.
We are not privy to all the facts surrounding the Benson tragedy in Nahant
Gretchen Henry The June 6 commentary by Jim Walsh, “Three deaths remembered in Nahant,” began as a beautiful tribute to the members of the Benson family, who... Read more.
Only Clarence Thomas is willing to give a gun to a domestic abuser
Noah Feldman Gun rights are not unlimited according to an 8-1 Supreme Court decision that draws back from the extreme Second Amendment decision the court made two... Read more.
Biden-Trump debate nears amid hopes to avoid another dumpster fire
Mark Z. Barabak In a little more than a week, Frank Fahrenkopf will be just another member of the TV audience watching as Joe Biden and Donald Trump tangle in this... Read more.
DHS needs to resolve conflicting policies on stateless people
Karina Ambartsoumian-Clough It’s worrying when a government agency appears to go its own way over the stated commitments of the person in charge of overseeing... Read more.
Surgeons give patients too many opioids. A few simple steps could curb excess prescribing.
Zachary Wagner and Craig R. Fox America’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Although the sharp increase in opioid overdose deaths over the last decade... Read more.