Editorials

The Seaman USD 345 School Board needs to do what’s right, not what’s popular. Fred Seaman, who the school district is named for, was a known leader of the Ku Klux Klan. As a result,…

It’s not surprising that former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon continues to thumb his nose at the law, but a congressional committee should not allow him to again escape legal responsibility. The Jan. 6 committee…

First Lady Jill Biden bared her soul at a church service Sunday when she told a South Carolina congregation that she had lost her faith in God after her son, Beau, had died from brain…

Much as Colin Powell deserves a tribute as America’s first Black secretary of state and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was under-recognized as a bridge-builder and champion of political moderation. Powell, who…

Haiti’s spiraling mayhem, florid lawlessness and humanitarian meltdown were predictable following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July. In a country already crippled by governmental dysfunction, the vacuum of political legitimacy and authority after…

In Wisconsin, families are suing two school districts for dropping their mask mandates, claiming it resulted in their children’s coronavirus infections. In Illinois, a lawsuit alleges a meat processing employee brought the virus home from…

When the Biden administration proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug prices earlier this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the result would be drug price drops of between 57% and 75%.…

Because malaria is generally not a problem in the United States, the news that a vaccine has been developed for the mosquito-borne disease didn’t make the headlines. That’s a shame. On average, malaria kills 400,000…

Good children’s literature is a serious business. Not serious as in boring or “improving,” but serious in attention and ambition, serious about beauty and wonder, about engaging the brain but also the heart, about sadness…

Last summer’s wave of statue removals across America may have felt transformative, but it didn’t significantly alter America’s statuary landscape: The almost 50,000 monuments that remain in place around the nation overwhelmingly depict white males…