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Wed, January 27, 2021 | 02:59

Russia can't afford to trip up in vaccine race

Moscow researchers say one of the country's potential coronavirus vaccines has been proven safe in small-scale human trials, and is ready for wider tests. It should be a modest win for a country that has sought for years to restore its Soviet-era reputation for cutting-edge science, and for President Vladimir Putin.

2020-07-21 17:19

White House waging dangerous war on public health

What people don't realize is that President Donald Trump is the real hero of the coronavirus pandemic.

2020-07-20 17:02

More statues won't solve our statue problem

More statues won't solve our statue problem

We already have a statue problem. President Donald Trump's solution to the problem is ... more statues. During his July 3 Mount Rushmore speech, the president announced his signing of an executive order proposing the creation of a statuary park, the National Garden of American Heroes.

2020-07-16 17:26

Why isn't California criticized like Florida on COVID-19?

Why aren't critics of pandemic reopenings talking about California in the same breath as some other states? And what does that say about combating Covid-19?

2020-07-16 17:07

How can Boeing regain the public's trust?

On Oct. 29, 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 189 passengers and crew. Less than five months later, Ethiopian Air Flight 302 plummeted shortly after departure, killing 157 people, including eight Americans. The model at the center of both crashes was the 737 Max, built by Chicago-based Boeing Co.

2020-07-14 16:51

Public has little faith in return to school

Public has little faith in return to school

President Donald Trump last week began demanding that schools open in the fall. It's a successor to his demand last spring that the economy reopen full throttle, and it looks like it will be similarly ignored.

2020-07-13 16:51

Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong is dangerous for the world

Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong is dangerous for the world

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong early this month, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I'd met there in November.Then I put the phone down because I realized that the old Hong Kong, where free speech and rule of law were allowed despite it being part of China, was over. It was ended by a new security law imposed by Beijing...

2020-07-12 18:06

This new coronavirus wave isn't like old wave

When New York City's COVID-19 epidemic peaked in late March and early April, the city was reporting more than 5,000 new confirmed cases a day, and more than 60 percent of tests for the disease were coming back positive. In Arizona, which has a similar if somewhat smaller population (7.3 million versus 8.3 million), new cases are currently averaging about 3,000 a day and about...

2020-07-09 17:06

Why is Barr going after Google?

For months, President Donald Trump's Justice Department has hinted that it intends to crack down on Silicon Valley. It recently took a big step closer as senior antitrust officials met with their state counterparts to plot out a case against Alphabet Inc.'s Google.

2020-07-09 16:56

Wrong call on public aid for religious schools

The Supreme Court last week needlessly poked a hole in Thomas Jefferson's “wall of separation between church and state.” By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled in a case from Montana that if a state provides a tax break that benefits students at a secular private school, it must include private religious schools as well. The decision is doubly disappointing.

2020-07-07 17:29

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