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Opinion

A heated hearing reveals the real RFK Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. does not deserve his initials, as he showed in a Senate hearing that revealed a Shakespearean streak of villainy in the health and human services secretary. Senator after senator asked straight questions about his broken promises on vaccine policy. Two are Republican ...

Increasing opportunity, hope for our children

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or, even more fundamentally, is intelligence genetic, or can education increase ...

Blue America starts to separate from Red America

It started quietly enough. MAGA Republicans put lunatic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. He’s forced top scientists to leave and slashed research in cancer, autoimmune diseases and other health threats. Thanks to him, getting the updated COVID ...

Answer the call for food security in the Valley

September is the start of many things: football season, the school year for some, spooky season if you ask the right people. But this is also Hunger Action Month. Note the difference between this “month” designation and many others. This is not just about awareness; this is about action ...

Today’s 1-sided news media kills the spirit of journalism

NEW ROSS, Ireland — Traveling the world as I have this summer exposed not only different opinions about major issues, but also a difference in how journalists in free countries and propagandists in unfree ones report them. Sadly, much of the journalism in free countries is too often ...

It’s time to dispatch Guard to big cities in GOP states

Wealthy white progressives are generally the most paternalistically racist people you will ever encounter on planet Earth. Overwhelmed by the soft bigotry of low expectations, what they can’t really say out loud, but what they think, is that you can’t get rid of crime in poor and nonwhite ...