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PublishedAugust 5, 2023
Commentary: Young people deserve a seat at the table
CBS News recently proclaimed that “kids in the U.S. and around the world are in crisis.” Self-harm among youth is on the rise, and enduring problems like bullying and sexual assault continue to wreak havoc. Young people feel the impending doom of climate change and await the day when their school is assaulted by an […]
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PublishedAugust 2, 2023
Commentary: Why older adults are so vulnerable to extreme heat from climate change
Scorching temperatures have put millions of Americans in danger this summer, with heat extremes stretching across the Southern U.S. Phoenix hit 110 degrees or higher every day for three weeks in July. Other major cities, from Las Vegas to Miami, experienced relentless high temperatures, which residents described as “hell on earth.” While we see photos […]
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PublishedAugust 1, 2023
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Political border battle rages on
In the past two months, President Joe Biden’s revised procedures for stemming the influx of asylum seekers across the Southern border have seemed to be working, substantially slowing the flow. But the difficulty in dealing administratively with the immigration situation was underscored when a federal judge in California ruled the procedures violate a federal law […]
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PublishedAugust 1, 2023
Commentary: Yes, the Supreme Court has taken away rights and resources. But it’s so much worse
Just a year after the U.S. Supreme Court terminated women’s constitutional right to an abortion, it dealt a triple blow to our collective social fabric in one broad sweep with rulings that undid affirmative action in college admissions, weakened LGBTQ+ Americans’ protections against discrimination and struck down the Biden administration’s college debt forgiveness. Considered together, […]
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PublishedJuly 30, 2023
Commentary: Tragedy of capsized migrants barely noticed amid loss of Titan and its billionaire passengers
I know what it’s like to wait for someone lost at sea. When I was 20 years old, working at a music cafe in Charleston, South Carolina, I got the call that my mother’s boat was lost in a massive storm during a sailing race to Bermuda. I was assured that the powers that be […]
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PublishedJuly 30, 2023
Our View: Hate groups tear at the seams of our country
White supremacists, and the politicians that have pulled them into the mainstream, are a growing threat.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2023
View from Away: Legacy admissions at colleges are more complicated than they appear. They won’t fully disappear
After the U.S. Supreme Court found (to no one’s surprise) that colleges and universities could not use a race-based approach in their admissions process, the long-standing attack on legacy admissions at highly selective institutions of higher education ramped up. Legacy admissions are what happens when a prospective student’s forebears such as parents or grandparents went […]
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PublishedJuly 29, 2023
Commentary: The farm bill is about more than farmers
Each time Congress debates its priorities for the farm bill every five years, as it is doing this year, it faces legislation that profoundly affects the economic well-being of Americans nationwide. From managing natural resources to rural development to funding labs and researchers at institutions across America, the farm bill is the most important tool […]
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PublishedJuly 29, 2023
Commentary: Medical debt is making Americans angry. Doctors and hospitals ignore this at their peril.
For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2023
Our View: Work authorization would help migrants, and the rest of us
The effort got a big boost last week with support from the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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