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Sun, May 9, 2021 | 07:00

Right way to help migrant families separated under Trump

The Biden administration has slowly begun the process of bringing back parents stripped of their children and then deported during the Trump administration, a welcome if overdue effort by the government to atone for its grotesquely inhumane actions. It needs to do more.

2021-05-06 17:26

Up in smoke: Good riddance to flavored menthol cigarettes

The Food and Drug Administration is set to ban the manufacture and sale of menthol-flavored cigarettes, the only remaining flavored cigarette still legally allowed. To borrow from an unintentionally grim advertising tagline used by the leading menthol brand, the move makes us alive with pleasure.

2021-05-06 17:25

Banking at post offices could work now, too

It's been obvious for some time that the U.S. Postal Service is ailing. And as the country tries to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis it created, America's middle class is ailing too.

2021-05-05 17:21

Pay people to get vaccinated

When I received my first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine last December, nobody paid me to roll up my sleeve. Yet, as vaccination efforts approach an expected tipping point, at which the amount of available vaccine exceeds the number of willing recipients, with the rate of vaccination far below the threshold required for herd immunity, paying people to take their shots likel...

2021-05-04 17:01

Banning menthol cigarettes is racial justice issue

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's announcement Thursday that it was moving to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars this year is not just the single most important step the federal agency has taken to reduce the deadly impact of tobacco use in the U.S. It's also one that comes with significant racial justice implications.

2021-05-03 17:26

Biden making up for decades of federal neglect

Three times already in his brief tenure, President Joe Biden has rolled out a far-reaching and extraordinarily expensive proposal to address large-scale problems in this country. First there was a $1.9 trillion plan to help individuals and businesses cope with the surging COVID-19 pandemic. Then there was a $2 trillion blueprint to build and repair American infrastructure, de...

2021-05-02 17:17

There is no absolute right to refuse vaccination

More than half of American (and Californian) adults have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and nearly a third are fully vaccinated. Vaccination has now been opened to everyone 16 and older. Our biggest worry in the coming months isn't whether we'll be able to deliver enough doses; it's whether enough people will seek them.

2021-04-29 17:22

Supreme Court weakens key consumer protector

Consumers' main federal guardian against unfair and deceptive businesses, the Federal Trade Commission, already has too few teeth when it comes to enforcing the law. Recently, a unanimous Supreme Court yanked another molar.

2021-04-29 17:15

Biden must set aggressive carbon reduction goals to meet Paris climate targets

A frustrating reality about climate change is that a once-seemingly distant horizon keeps moving up on us. First, we were given dire projections about what could happen by the end of the 21st century if we didn't act. Then the projections advanced to 2050. More recently, the warnings have sounded about the need for effective and significant action by 2030 - at this point, nin...

2021-04-28 17:15

Link between Alexei Navalny's life or death and Biden's policy toward Russia

On April 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his state of the union address - extolling his country's moral values and lashing out at the West. The same day tens of thousands of Russians demonstrated across the nation's 11 time zones, at huge personal risk, calling for Russia's most famous political prisoner to be freed.

2021-04-27 17:07

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