“Within the wealthiest nation within the historical past of the world, tens of thousands and thousands wrestle to place meals on the desk, discover inexpensive housing, inexpensive well being care, inexpensive pharmaceuticals, inexpensive baby care and inexpensive academic alternatives.” That was Bernie Sanders, in New Hampshire final week, summing up among the injustices on the … Read more
With its Russian torture chambers and slaughter of civilians, the struggle in Ukraine is horrifying sufficient. However what if one other nation is profiting from the distraction to commit its personal crimes in opposition to humanity? Meet Azerbaijan. You most likely haven’t heard of Azerbaijan’s brutality towards an ethnic Armenian enclave known as Nagorno-Karabakh, however … Read more
Sept. 1, 2023 3 AM PT To the editor: Can conservative tradition warriors stoop any decrease? (“California sues Chino faculty district, aiming to finish coverage notifying mother and father of pupil gender modifications,” Aug. 28) The Chino Valley Unified College District is amongst those who need public colleges to police their college students’ gender identities … Read more
My dad has been left behind as a hostage in Iran by the Biden administration. The regime in Tehran just lately agreed to launch 5 Iranian-American hostages in change for $16 billion of its frozen property at present off limits as a result of ongoing American sanctions. But my father, Jamshid (Jimmy) Sharmahd, has not … Read more
California is at one more essential level in its battle towards a sustainable water future, and but we’re nonetheless speaking in regards to the improper options. Websites Reservoir is the most recent in an extended line of proposed dams promising to finish our cycle of water insecurity. Nevertheless, Websites gained’t add a lot to California’s water … Read more
It was “the summer time of lady energy,” a tour de drive by a glittering troika. With pink dream homes, songs and sequins, Barbie, Taylor Swift and Beyoncé buoyed the financial system and despatched girls’s confidence hovering. So I felt unhappy, speaking to mates dropping daughters in school, to listen to of rampant nervousness, campuses … Read more
Sept. 2, 2023 3 AM PT To the editor: Columnist Erika D. Smith writes persuasively and empathetically in regards to the tears shed within the courtroom through the sentencing of former L.A. Metropolis Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas to 42 months in jail. She laments the great blow this delivers to the underserved communities so successfully served … Read more
Staten Island District Lawyer Michael McMahon referred to as out Gov. Kathy Hochul on fentanyl final week, and he’s fully proper: She’s once more attempting to dodge the hardest points. Within the native a part of the nationwide disaster, New Yorkers by the a whole lot are dying from ODs; shameless addicts plague the streets. … Read more
One of many paradoxes of city America is that hundreds of thousands of individuals communicate reverently about wilderness however are a lot much less desirous to enterprise into it and threat actual bites from precise mosquitoes. I’ve been musing about this whereas backpacking with household on the Pacific Northwest Path, typically often called “America’s wildest … Read more
One of many ironies of the American slave system was that it depended for its survival on a federal construction that left it weak and unstable. Inside the federal union, the slave-dependent states had entry to a nationwide market through which they may promote the merchandise of slave labor to retailers and producers all through … Read more
