A plethora of lawsuits, involving more than 1,800 plaintiffs, have been filed against social media companies, including ByteDance, Meta Platforms, Snapchat and Google, within the past two years. We are now seeing some progress being made toward litigation, as 11 social media addiction cases ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Following trips to different countries over many years I have longed to return home and hear these words from an immigration officer: “Welcome back to the United States.” Something felt different this time. After three weeks away — two days in Doha and the rest in ...
We have seen this before. A foreign entity attacks American persons or property and the government warns that its sleeper cells have infiltrated the United States and it is somehow necessary to expand the powers of the government and shrink protections for civil liberties — and this ...
Last November, I predicted that by year two of his regime Trump would begin agitating for an illegal third term. That took him less than 100 days. I also opined that, if he got a third term, he would campaign for a dynastic clause changing the Constitution to allow him to name one of his sons ...
DEAR EDITOR: On June 26, The Vindicator ran an article about the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices known as ACIP. ACIP advises the CDC on the vaccines children and adults should take and when. Recently, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the committee ...
One of my goals in writing this column is to alert you to dangers to our democracy so you can alert others, who then alert others, and by this means we enlarge and strengthen our bulwark against the tide of fascism. Wars pose particular challenges to democracy because nations at war often ...