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Thu, July 7, 2022 | 16:57

Military mind-reading and Putin's presidency

Wars leave us with iconic images that somehow capture for eternity the reality that made each war hell.So our minds' eyes see forever the hell that was Vietnam when we recall just two photographs: that little girl running down the road toward us, crying, stripped naked by napalm dropped from America's planes; and that South Vietnamese military officer shooting his pistol into...

2022-03-22 16:20

Private sector can help solve our doctor shortage

The pandemic has laid bare a crisis we've ignored for far too long - our chronic doctor shortage. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States faces a shortfall of up to 124,000 physicians over the next decade.

2022-03-21 16:07

Best way to stop China from aiding Russia is for US to help Ukraine

The Biden administration hoped it could focus on China and not worry about Russia. But the war in Ukraine has proved this was a fantasy as China considers sending military and economic aid to Russia.

2022-03-20 16:08

International Criminal Court matters. Can Ukraine make us see that?

Two years ago, the U.S. government treated the International Criminal Court like an enemy of the state. Now, the ICC may be the only way to ensure justice for Russia's war crimes.

2022-03-20 16:07

Why so many countries want to sit out new cold war

“Democracies are rising to the moment,” U.S. President Joe Biden said in his State of the Union address, as Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed his vicious war on Ukraine. Francis Fukuyama leads a band of commentators claiming that the “spirit of 1989” is back and we are about to witness globally a “new birth of freedom.”

2022-03-17 16:30

Standing for values instead of personalities

William Shakespeare's play “Romeo and Juliet” etched in the minds of people the world around the famous phrase, “What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” Shakespeare was making the point that calling someone or labeling something is arbitrary. It is the intrinsic qualities of the person or thing that matter.

2022-03-17 16:28

It makes sense to put criminalized populations first for cannabis retail licenses

In state after state that's taken the leap to legalize recreational use of cannabis - doing so in large part to stop disproportionately dragging through the criminal justice system thousands of Black and Brown people who peddle and use a drug that's no more harmful than alcohol - a cruel irony has manifested.

2022-03-16 16:01

Missouri might criminalize out-of-state abortions. That's ridiculous

The assault on women's reproductive rights in state legislatures across the country has ramped up since the Supreme Court signaled in December that it might uphold a Mississippi ban on abortion at 15 weeks of gestation and dismantle the landmark ruling in Roe vs. Wade that protects a woman's right to an abortion.

2022-03-16 16:00

No-fly zone is no solution

As days stretched into weeks, our news screens have been bombarding us with images of brave and determined Ukrainian civilians seeking shelter and sometimes getting killed as Vladimir Putin's war of choice exploded over their homes, schools, hospitals.

2022-03-15 16:01

China wanted to appear neutral between Russia and Ukraine. It isn't

When Russia invaded Ukraine last month, a spate of wishful thinking ran through the West that China, a great power with friends on both sides, might step in to mediate a cease-fire.

2022-03-15 16:00

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