NATIONAL VIEW: The Supreme Court has declared open season on constitutional rights
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday, Mar. 11, effectively extinguished a lawsuit challenging the state’s antiabortion law, all but ensuring that Texas’s extreme restrictions...
NATIONAL VIEW: A question for President Biden on oil and gas
Every so often President Biden makes himself available to the press to ask a question—when he’s not walking to or from a helicopter—and we...
NATIONAL VIEW: Climate catastrophe is already here
A new United Nations report blares dire warnings of the escalating effects of climate change: Our planet is no longer on the brink of...
NATIONAL VIEW: Biden misses the moment in his State of the Union address
President Biden is no Olaf Scholz. The new Chancellor upended decades of center-left German defense and energy policy last week after Vladimir Putin invaded...
NATIONAL VIEW: ‘Stand your ground’ doesn’t save lives
The disagreements start over the most mundane of matters. An argument over someone texting in a movie theater; a customer at the checkout in...
NATIONAL VIEW: Members of Congress should not be trading stocks, ever
Americans are in a sour mood with their elected officials. Blame the pandemic or inflation or Trumpism or stress or structural problems like inequality,...
NATIONAL VIEW: How many people died believing vaccine misinformation?
“Freaking miracle.” That’s how health journalist Helen Branswell recently described the vaccines that have saved millions of lives in the coronavirus pandemic. The vaccines,...
NATIONAL VIEW: As journalists face deadly violence, Mexico’s president attacks the media
Mexico is experiencing one of the deadliest periods on record for journalists, with five killed so far this year. But instead of addressing these...
NATIONAL VIEW: Why thieves love Seattle
Democrats elsewhere may be fleeing the defund the police movement, but it lives on in Seattle. Business owners told the City Council last week...
NATIONAL VIEW: Biden promised to end the disgrace of private migrant prisons
The Trump administration was great for business — if your business happened to be running private detention centers for migrants. Although deportations under the...