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Wed, April 21, 2021 | 04:48

Getting out of Afghanistan after 20 years

Why did we go to war in Afghanistan 20 years ago?

2021-04-20 17:08

Nine is fine: Democrats should forget about packing the Supreme Court

So any prospect of Joe Biden packing a court tilted right by Mitch McConnell's galling political deviousness - he was dead wrong to refuse to even hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Merrick Garland after the demise of Antonin Scalia in election year 2016, and dead wronger when he rammed through Amy Coney Barrett after the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg far closer to...

2021-04-20 17:07

All drugs come with risks; so do vaccines

All medicines, including those sold over the counter, come with a risk to the user. And as those otherwise breezy commercials for pharmaceuticals remind us, the most serious risk may include death. COVID-19 vaccines are no exception.

2021-04-19 16:57

Senators should speak on filibuster

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, has it right: The filibuster should not be eliminated. The Senate needs the filibuster as a tool to drive the two parties toward compromise on important issues as well as to give voice to the minority party.

2021-04-19 16:56

An end to US deployment in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden's expected announcement Wednesday that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the withdrawal by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks that provoked the war, will finally bring to a close direct American military involvement there.

2021-04-18 16:59

Post-COVID 'cave syndrome'

A few weeks ago I wrote a column in which I briefly referred to the concept of “cave syndrome.” The term was coined by a psychiatrist in Florida to describe people who are feeling scared or unwilling to reenter post-pandemic society - even after being vaccinated - because they have grown too accustomed to isolation.

2021-04-15 16:40

Europe is heading toward new financial crisis

Europe faces a predicament. Even as it struggles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, it's setting itself up for another crisis - this one financial. To ensure the viability of the common currency at the heart of the European project, the EU's leaders will have to cooperate in ways they've so far resisted.

2021-04-15 16:38

Racism is serious threat to public health: CDC

Racism is a serious threat to public health, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared last week. The federal agency was a little late to a conclusion long backed by streams of research and other medical groups. The American Public Health Association says there are more than 170 municipalities that have embraced the concept.

2021-04-15 16:30

Curing violence pandemic

When President Joe Biden announced his executive action last week to deal with the nation's surging violence, most attention understandably went to his plans to stop the proliferation of so-called ghost guns - firearms that can be hastily assembled from untraceable kits.

2021-04-14 16:53

Toward more tolerant US Navy

Racist and sexist speech and discriminatory actions have no place in America's Navy, and the service branch is mounting a determined campaign to root them out. That's the strong message from the Navy's comprehensive new study of diversity and equality - or the lack thereof - in the ranks.

2021-04-13 16:33

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