Special to The Washington Post Every Jew I know - whether Democrat or Republican - was horrified to read the tweets issued by President Donald Trump on Sunday morning. Somehow finding a new low to sink to, Trump suggested that…
Posted: 17 July 2019 [06:55 PM] Posted: 17 July 2019 [06:55 PM] Michael Reagan It’s too bad we had somebody like Colin Kaepernick playing soccer in the Women’s World Cup. I’m a big fan of international soccer - men’s and women’s. I was excited when the Women’s World…
Posted: 17 July 2019 [06:50 PM] The Newport Daily News The ACLU of Massachusetts made two public records requests to the state Department of Transportation, seeking information about how the agency uses facial recognition technology. After the state failed to respond both times, the…
Posted: 17 July 2019 [06:47 PM] The Washington Post With House Democrats planning a vote this week on a bill more than doubling the federal minimum wage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has weighed in with a timely estimate of the potential benefits -…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:55 PM] It took just six days for Montgomery County, Maryland, authorities to charge a police officer with assault after he was captured on video driving his knee into the neck of a suspect who lay handcuffed on the ground, plowing the…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:53 PM] Dear Granddaddy, what happens to ungrateful children when they become adults? Linda-mother of an ungrateful child. Well, Linda, we know that this big world can be unforgiving. We also know how good our kids have it under our roofs. However,…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:52 PM] During his years in private business, Donald Trump was frequently accused of not paying and underpaying people who performed services for his real estate holdings. Everyone from carpenters to waiters to drapery makers complained that they had been left holding…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:50 PM] The Washington Post By now, it’s not a surprise that congressional Republicans are largely silent as President Donald Trump attacks four American congresswomen in language that, outside the GOP, has been widely condemned as racist. They’ve learned over the years…
Posted: 16 July 2019 [06:49 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Rarely has a minor consumer product received more vilification than the plastic straw. As a symbol of human wastefulness and our careless disregard for the environment, straws are the near-perfect villain. You use a plastic straw once and…
Posted: 15 July 2019 [08:19 PM] For more than four decades, U.S. law has required banks to lend fairly and equitably, meaning that they must serve everyone in their communities on equal terms, and can’t discriminate on the basis of race or class. So do they?…
Posted: 15 July 2019 [08:14 PM] Even beyond its ambitious plans to send human beings to other worlds, NASA can still inspire. The space agency sparked imaginations again the other day when it announced the next of its unmanned missions to other worlds. This time it…
Posted: 15 July 2019 [08:12 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump has struck out in the courts on his effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court’s recent ruling essentially called out Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for giving a…
Posted: 15 July 2019 [08:11 PM] The Washington Post Opinions on abortion tend to move slowly, if at all. While there are nuances in public sentiment involving policy and legal complexities related to the issue, for most people the overall topic is something about which they’ve…
Posted: 14 July 2019 [08:16 PM] Bloomberg Opinion A new Congressional Budget Office analysis of a nationwide minimum wage increase has stirred up lots of debate, since it predicts that an increase would have both gooda and bad effects. The CBO examines three possible levels for…
Posted: 14 July 2019 [08:15 PM] The crush of migrants that overwhelmed U.S. border facilities in the spring, producing appalling conditions for migrant children at Customs and Border Protection stations, has eased with summer’s arrival as scorching temperatures and deterrent measures adopted by Mexican authorities drove…
Posted: 14 July 2019 [08:14 PM] Given how discouraging the situation in Sudan looked a few weeks ago, after a terrible massacre and uncertain end to three decades of despotism under President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, it is reassuring to see that democracy-seeking protesters and the military…
Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:47 PM] Editorial Eleven years later, Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have another shot at the justice they say they were denied when then-U.S. Attorney - and now former Labor Secretary -Alexander Acosta cut him a lenient nonprosecution agreement in a major sex-crimes case.…
Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:46 PM] Editorial British ambassador Kim Darroch, a seasoned professional who is highly respected in Washington, was embarrassed last weekend by the leak of some of his tough-but-fair assessments of President Donald Trump and his administration in private cables to London. Any…
Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:44 PM] The Washington Post The tension between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and several high-profile freshman lawmakers has been building arguably since before their elections, and it seems to be cresting. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s, D-N.Y., comments this week to The Washington…
Posted: 12 July 2019 [08:43 PM] Bloomberg Opinion You can identify companies’ sore spots by what gets them angry. Last week, the executive in charge of Amazon.com’s logistics operation tweeted a rebuttal to a television show. Comedian John Oliver had devoted one of his trademark…
Posted: 11 July 2019 [06:25 PM] Bloomberg Opinion President Donald Trump has a real thing for cleanliness. As he made clear at an event staged at the White House on Monday, this extends far beyond copious use of hand-sanitizer - from sea to sanitary sea, no…
Posted: 11 July 2019 [06:24 PM] The Washington Post It may have been the worst recession to hit any economy in modern times. Between 2007 and 2014, Greece lost a quarter of its economy; hundreds of thousands of people moved abroad; unemployment peaked at almost 28…
Posted: 11 July 2019 [06:23 PM] The Washington Post The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit will consider on Tuesday one of the most outrageous rulings of the past year: the one in which a U.S. district judge in Texas struck down…
Posted: 11 July 2019 [06:22 PM] Bloomberg Opinion Teen vaping has skyrocketed in just a few years: Between 2017 and 2018, the share of high-school students using e-cigarettes rose by 78%, to one in five. Unlike other tobacco products, e-cigarettes have not been…
Posted: 10 July 2019 [06:34 PM] Sydney Predmore Erica Drzewiecki wrote a wonderful article published on the Fourth of July. I felt compelled to comment. Drzewiecki’s piece on Bristol Senior Center volunteers transforming plastic bags into blankets for the homeless has, truly, sparked hope…
Posted: 10 July 2019 [06:33 PM] Special To The Washington Post Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has repealed the gainful employment rule, which requires career colleges to ensure that their graduates can afford to repay their loans. Any program that leaves most students with unaffordable debts, relative…
Posted: 10 July 2019 [06:33 PM] The Washington Post It is hard to imagine how anyone at this point could look at the sea of contenders for the Democratic presidential nod and think the party needs one more. The field seems to have sorted itself into…
Posted: 10 July 2019 [06:31 PM] Dan Blanchard Dear Granddaddy, I’ve been going through a stressful time. How do I overcome my hardships? Stephanie. Stephanie, I’m sorry to hear that you have been going through some stressful times. A strategy I used when I…
Posted: 10 July 2019 [06:30 PM] The Washington Post When President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the nuclear accord with Iran and reapplied sanctions, Tehran’s response was easily foreseeable and widely predicted: It would start to break through the limits it agreed…
Posted: 09 July 2019 [07:02 PM] For the crime of providing a pair of Central American migrants with food, water, fresh clothing and beds, a U.S. volunteer with the humanitarian group No More Deaths was handcuffed and charged with three felonies last year. The charges were…
Posted: 09 July 2019 [07:01 PM] The patronizing slogan “Dare to Shine!” flashed across the world as the United States women’s national soccer team lifted its World Cup after a 2-0 victory against the Netherlands. Seeing as the team tore up the field, sweeping up not…
Posted: 09 July 2019 [06:57 PM] Special to the Washington Post When the media covers antibiotic-resistant bugs, they typically describe them with a sense of alarm, fear and helplessness. Much of this is warranted: Antibiotic resistance is undermining the foundations of our modern medical system. No…
Posted: 09 July 2019 [06:56 PM] The Washington Post The pathology described in Jeffrey Epstein’s 14-page indictment is as much about money as it is about sex. Made public on Monday before the multimillionaire’s New York courtroom appearance, the document tells the story of a 66-year-old…
Posted: 08 July 2019 [07:58 PM] Plastic is everywhere. It is not merely that the material, rarely used in consumer products before 1950, has become ubiquitous in the homes, cars and offices Americans inhabit. Scientists using remotely operated submersibles announcedlast month that they had found plastic…
Posted: 08 July 2019 [07:56 PM] How and who to count in the 2020 Census has been at the heart of a legal battle against the Trump administration since March of last year. That’s when Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the census, authorized the reinstatement…
Posted: 08 July 2019 [07:55 PM] Special to The Washington Post After 40-plus years in earthquake country, I should know better. But if you pop the trunk of my car or check the shelves of my home in Southern California, you won’t find any jugs of…
Posted: 08 July 2019 [07:53 PM] The Washington Post Dear Clare, I saw something a few nights ago that I wanted to show you: fireflies gathering like stars underneath a hundred-year-old black maple tree, glittering in the gloom. I thought of you as they seemed to…
Posted: 07 July 2019 [08:32 PM] Special to the Washington Post Over the past decade, the conservative Supreme Court has reshaped the American political system in ways that fundamentally undermine voting rights and equal representation in our nation. In a trio of cases, the court…
Posted: 07 July 2019 [08:32 PM] A full decade has passed since the end of the last recession, in June 2009, and the economy continues to grow. As of Monday, the current expansion surpassed the previous record for uninterrupted growth, set between 1991 and 2001. But…
Posted: 07 July 2019 [08:31 PM] Nike pulled a new line of sports shoes from its stores in China in June because of a backlash against the company on Chinese social media. The cause of the offense? An Instagram post by the brand’s Japanese designer that…
Posted: 05 July 2019 [08:13 PM] The Washington Post Ivanka Trump - prized first daughter, presidential sounding board, sometime diplomat - managed to ignite the rage of the Internet by just doing her job. Wait, what job is that exactly? Officially, the 37-year-old is a senior…
Posted: 05 July 2019 [08:12 PM] Special To The Washington Post There is no time in life more difficult than after you lose a loved one. For more than 100 years, my family has had the honor of coming alongside those in grief, helping thousands…
Posted: 05 July 2019 [07:54 PM] The Washington Post In the halcyon days of the internet, a vision took hold that in a vast global network, no single point could control. Rather, the internet would flow like water around obstacles. Tim Berners-Lee, a web…
Posted: 05 July 2019 [07:51 PM] Ellen Zoppo-Sassu Mayor of Bristol “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness…”…
Posted: 04 July 2019 [01:56 PM] Column Expectations could not have been lower going into round one of the Democrat Party’s ridiculously overcrowded presidential debate in Miami. Maybe that’s why it turned out to be a decently watchable debate. It was no “Games of Thrones” finale,…
Posted: 04 July 2019 [01:53 PM] To the editor: On behalf of over 26,000 Girl Scouts in Connecticut, I’d like to thank all of those in our state and beyond who supported our young female entrepreneurs participating in the 2019 Girl Scout Cookie Program! Because of…
Posted: 04 July 2019 [01:51 PM] To the editor: The YMCA PHS Project Graduation Committee 2019 would like to give a heartfelt thank you to all of the local businesses and volunteers for their year-round support to make this year’s celebration a success!! Thank you to…
Posted: 04 July 2019 [01:46 PM] Editorial The Supreme Court made one thing very clear last week: Citizens tired of politicians choosing their voters, rather than the other way around, cannot look to federal courts for help ending even extreme gerrymandering. And in Maryland, the district…
Posted: 03 July 2019 [03:19 PM] Bloomberg President Donald Trump, who seems obsessed with undoing his predecessor’s legacy, is in danger of repeating Barack Obama’s fundamental mistake on Iran: Making the confrontation with the Islamic Republic almost exclusively about nuclear weapons. In recent weeks, Trump has…
Posted: 03 July 2019 [03:18 PM] Special to The Washington Post President Donald Trump has decided that the Fourth of July belongs to him. In February, he announced on Twitter that he was rebranding the day as a “Salute to America” that would feature “an address…
