July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Try as he might, Donald Trump can’t blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A whopping one in eight U.S. adults have taken GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic for weight loss and related conditions. The drugs’ popularity and efficacy have sparked a prescription-writing frenzy in recent years, leaving both medications on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug shortage list since May 2023. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It was only hours after the Supreme Court issued its staggering term-ending opinion on presidential immunity when Donald Trump invoked it in an attempt to set aside his criminal conviction in New York. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As communities along the Gulf Coast begin the cleanup from Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall last week as a weakened Category 1 storm, they should find comfort in knowing that help is coming. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is well schooled in disaster recovery and has been on the ground… Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
An aggressive effort by President Joe Biden to challenge his critics and maintain support from key constituencies has failed to still the post-debate uncertainty over whether he should stay at the top of the Democratic ticket. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases including measles, dengue and polio have surged past pre-pandemic peaks in regions across the world. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As if Democrats don’t have enough to keep them up nights, here’s something beyond frightful visions of a Trump victory: a Republican trifecta in Washington. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s wrong to view the Supreme Court’s ruling in the aptly titled Trump v. United States, its Constitution-torching invitation to authoritarian rule, as a decision without precedent. It’s just that Supreme Court precedents don’t necessarily roll quite like they used to. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Recently, a proposed ballot initiative made the erroneous statement that the League of Women Voters had expressed concern about election security in Clark County. We weren’t consulted by the author of the measure, and we do not agree with its premise that county elections procedures are flawed. Read story
July 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
President Joe Biden’s letter to Democrats in Congress on Monday was everything his debate performance should have been: a forceful, articulate defense of what he has achieved as president and a warning about the existential threat to our democracy posed by Donald Trump. Read story
