To the editor: As staff writer Kevin Rector reported, many Republican voters have lost trust in the electoral process, with 55% “not confident” in local […]
Category: Opinion
Contributor: The overdue rise of the right within mainstream media
On Sept. 30, 2024, prominent progressive thinker and author Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared on “CBS Mornings” to promote his new book focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, […]
Column: As we approach July 4, the capital is, fittingly, a mess
Just a month out from America’s celebration of its 250th birthday, the national capital is a mess. And I’m talking about the sites central to […]
Contributor: James Comey’s case will play out in a murky area of the law
In the case of United States vs. James Brien Comey Jr., the U.S. president’s security is pitted against the bedrock right to free speech enjoyed […]
Contributor: Recent assessment of California’s water misallocation is the first step toward justice
California is in the middle of a quiet but high-stakes argument about what it would mean to fix our water system in a hotter, drier […]
Letters to the Editor: With Cuba, Trump is just looking for another victim to bully
To the editor: Contributing writer Jon Duffy’s recent op-ed might have mentioned the obvious answer: President Trump isn’t satisfied with chaos and death in Venezuela […]
Recent ruling regarding bail policies isn’t radical. It’s the law
To the editor: The Los Angeles Times’ article about the recent California Supreme Court decision limiting judges’ ability to impose unreasonable bail takes the standard […]
Letters to the Editor: Changes to climate program don’t suddenly make California pro-business
To the editor: Before the changes to the cap-and-invest system described in the Sunday edition, California was competing with a handful of states for the […]
Letters to the Editor: Grade-distribution guidelines can be applied with some nuance
To the editor: I read with interest the article on Harvard limiting the number of A’s (“Harvard faculty votes to make it more difficult for […]
Contributor: Human wars are displacing and killing hidden nations of animals
Upon returning home from his time as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I, naturalist Henry Beston famously described wild animals as “other nations, […]