NATIONAL VIEW: Indian burial sites in Canada trigger grief here
First came the discovery of more than 200 unmarked graves at a burial site on a former Indian boarding school property in British Columbia....
NATIONAL VIEW: Court ruling helps lesser-known athletes, too
At first glance, the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing college student-athletes to profit from their names, images and their likenesses allows high-profile athletes...
NATIONAL VIEW: America’s founders fought for the right to debate critical race theory
As we celebrated this July Fourth while still tentatively emerging from the worst throes of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s hard not to feel the...
NATIONAL VIEW: Decision to include five oceans on maps is a reminder that consensus...
As much as political leaders and pundits like to cite scientific consensus as unarguable fact, consensus can change. New classification schemes can emerge. New...
NATIONAL VIEW: This surprising Supreme Court
When is a case about a pipeline about more than the pipeline? When it produces a 5-4 Supreme Court decision with a surprising mix...
NATIONAL VIEW: Heat wave shows climate change is creating hell on Earth
The record-breaking heat wave baking the West Coast is another painful sign that climate change is here, and we have to adapt.
The Pacific Northwest...
NATIONAL VIEW: We have to ask if condo collapse is linked to shoddy ’80s...
South Florida’s long and sordid history of shoddy building practices is hard to ignore in the wake of the Surfside building’s partial collapse.
We don’t...
NATIONAL VIEW: Affordable health care
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught Americans anything, it’s surely the necessity of making sure everyone has access to decent medical care. After all,...
NATIONAL VIEW: Missouri politicians said COVID fight was socialism — now we’re No. 1...
The COVID-19 crisis isn’t over, and we shouldn’t act as if it is.
Yes, yes, we’re tired of masks and social distancing. Crowds at the...
NATIONAL VIEW: Leaked data reveals tax code rigged toward the rich
Internal Revenue Service data obtained by ProPublica and published recently shows in black and white just how rigged toward the rich the U.S. tax...