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Wed, October 5, 2022 | 14:07

Turning back clock on voters with disabilities

When Barbara Sheinbein, 64, went to vote in the April election her friend drove her to the polls. Her friend went inside the polling location in St. Louis County and told a worker that Sheinbein wanted to use an accessible voting machine because she is blind. She can't read a printed ballot.

2022-10-05 13:12

Putin's threat of a nuclear strike on Ukraine may not be a bluff. What do we do now?

After weeks of reverses, Russia's army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin's response, characteristically, has been to escalate on other fronts.

2022-10-04 13:39

Climate change is nudging us toward next pandemic

The threat of climate change conjures certain scenes: Smoke billowing from a forest aflame. Smothering heat clinging to the distorted asphalt of a densely packed street. Glaciers breaking off into a rising sea. Another scenario should be equally terrifying but is harder to envision: a virus leaving the animal that has played blind host for an encroaching human being.

2022-10-03 13:28

On Ukraine war, it's the West vs. the rest

From the moment Russian forces began their widespread missile barrage against Ukrainian targets in February, the United States and Europe have sought to rally the world on Ukraine's behalf. The narrative of the collective West has been simple, and it appeals to our moral sensibilities about what is right and wrong - Vladimir Putin, the thin-skinned, bloodthirsty, nuclear-arme...

2022-10-02 13:52

Biden pokes at China again over Taiwan. At what cost to US national interests?

President Joe Biden's foreign policy deserves higher marks than most have given it. Biden boldly pulled the plug on the Afghanistan quagmire, so that Americans could stop hemorrhaging blood and treasure in an endless war. He has performed a delicate “Goldilocks routine” with respect to Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine: giving a vital assist to save Kyiv, while balancing th...

2022-09-29 14:22

After a pandemic boom in child obesity, it's time for families to recommit to health

Get outside. Eat healthy food. Keep moving. That all sounds easy enough, right? Such pithy directives for a healthy lifestyle are now so common that they've become a kind of white noise in our daily lives. But as kids return to school this fall, it's the perfect time for families to recommit to their physical and mental health.

2022-09-29 14:13

Home sweet habitat: How animal agriculture destroys our planet

Deadly wildfires. Unprecedented flooding. Major hurricanes. With exponential growth in devastating weather events predicted for the upcoming decades, the changing climate is going to affect our homes significantly. So for World Habitat Day (Oct. 3), let's think about the climate catastrophe's effect on all species' homes - and what we can do about it.

2022-09-29 14:13

Putin's threat to use nukes is a sure sign his war is failing

Twenty-two years ago, at the Davos World Economic Forum, when a little-known Vladimir Putin had just become president, I asked four senior Russian leaders: “Who is Mr. Putin?”

2022-09-28 14:52

Young voters are the superheroes of democracy

The 2022 midterms are less than two months away and democracy itself is on the line. It may be our last chance to save democracy from the rise of right-wing authoritarianism.

2022-09-28 14:45

Congress is trying to stop its own members from another coup attempt

Call it the (spineless) Republicans' lament: “The things we do for the orange Jesus.”

2022-09-27 14:32

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