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Friday, April 19, 2024
Editorials
Friday, April 19, 2024
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House Republicans just elected an election denier as speaker. American democracy is in trouble
This is how far the GOP has fallen: House Republicans on Wednesday unanimously elected as speaker a man who actively tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election resu...
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Every year, from mid-October to early December, millions of Medicare beneficiaries get the chance to pick a new health plan. With dozens to choose from and a blizzard of ...
Ask any parent about the time their kids spend on mobile devices, and you’ll likely hear the same refrain: It’s too much. Excessive use of smartphones and social media is...
News, or shall we say “news,” of a horrid attack spread faster than you can say “IDF”: Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds.
Without bothering to verify...
The U.S. House of Representatives must get back to the work for which the members were elected and for which they are paid. That means it must elect a speaker, and soon. ...
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As with most communities in our region, Stonington needs more affordably priced housing. The Pawcatuck section of the town is not the reason for this shortcoming, yet it...
Whether the matter is of formidable geopolitical import or merely a kid’s choir concert, showing up is one of the best ways to convey support.
So the mere physical presen...
The fight against climate change commands the support of governments across much of the world. Targets for carbon abatement have gotten more ambitious and policies to add...
U.S. President Joe Biden flew into a still-reeling Israel today to deliver two crucial messages, one that will surely be welcome, another more difficult. Especially now,...
On Thursday, a vehicle trolled around Harvard Square bearing screens with the names and likenesses of some of the Harvard University students who had signed on to a publi...
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This appeared in the Los Angeles Times:
The U.S. economy is in the early stages of an once-in-a-lifetime shift from an economy powered by fossil fuels. To prevent ca...
This appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
The horror and outrage of the surprise attacks on Israel by Palestinian militants in Gaza are being compared with the ter...
This appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
It took nearly three years, but reality has finally intruded upon the Biden administration’s border fantasies. Thank two Re...
The images from Israel this weekend have been horrific. Almost exactly 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, Israeli forces again appear to have been taken by surprise by th...
The United States sits at a critical moment in efforts to stand up an offshore wind-power industry that can supply significant clean, renewable electricity to the densely...
Long years of hard work, raising children on a tight budget, possibly working two jobs or even two parents working two jobs apiece. That’s the personal investment in the ...
Why exactly is Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan antagonizing Amazon.com Inc., of all companies? In a 172-page complaint announced last week, the FTC alleges that ...
Saturday morning and afternoon action/delay followed by more action/delay in the House of Representatives and Saturday afternoon and evening action/delay followed by more...
“Defund the police” may go down as the most misguided and foolish political slogan in American political history. After the events of the last week, is it finally dead an...
The quest to boost the amount of affordable housing in the region took some stumbling steps forward in two local communities recently. While we take it as a positive that...
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