The writer in a recent letter to the editor entitled “Are You?” has confused the pro-life issue with several other moral and political issues. Pro-life means protecting the lives of all human beings IN UTERO. It has no bearing on race or lifestyle choices (LBTQ+), income or housing. To add ...
Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because he didn't like the numbers announced in her monthly jobs report. The bureau reports not only on jobs, but also on inflation and compensation. All those numbers affect policy and politics. Slowing job growth might encourage ...
What if the federal government captures in real time the contents of every telephone call, email and text message and all the fiber-optic data generated by every person and entity in the United States 24/7? What if this mass surveillance was never authorized by any federal law and tramples the ...
A new report from the Department of Energy concludes that, yes, the climate is changing and humans contribute to it — but no, it's not necessarily the impending catastrophe we've been warned about. In another era, an agency charting this kind of middle course would be unremarkable. Today, it ...
As summer winds down I can’t help but think back over a half-century ago. (I can’t believe I just wrote “a half-century ago”, which must be a mistake because I don’t need self-imposed reminders of how old I am getting.) But as I said, as summer winds down and I see my grandchildren ...
It's with some discomfort that I consider the possibility that Trump's radical immigration agenda will lead to better immigration policies. The discomfort comes from the cruelty involved: the roughing up of good people who've been quietly working, the celebrations of brutal incarceration, the ...