In the late 1970s, when Jimmy Carter was president, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was less than a decade old and still developing basic workplace safety rules. As unimaginable as it is now, workers did not have the right to know the names and toxic properties of the chemicals to which they were exposed, or to be ...Read more

There is an understandable urge among many Americans to cast aside America's essential principles in a frenetic effort to oppose Donald Trump. And there's a logic to this approach: He does it, so why shouldn't we?

Yet doing so would be a big mistake.

For starters, it often backfires. Take the essential principle of respecting the rule of law. ...Read more

All indications are that President-elect Donald Trump has every intention of following through on his promise to ramp up deportations, suspend due process and restrict legal status for millions of people living in the United States.

These include the children of immigrants, survivors of domestic violence and skilled foreign-born tech workers. ...Read more

Those who volunteer to serve in our nation’s military, and their families, deserve to have safe, comfortable, decent places to live. Too often, we have failed to provide that basic need. So it’s good to hear news of housing improvements and new projects in Hampton Roads.

Recent positive developments are obviously welcome news for service ...Read more

Donald Trump secured a surprising 43% of the Latino vote, enough to swing the election in his favor. Now, Democrats are forced to confront the fallout of their failure, which is rooted in decades of disinvestment and disregard for the diverse Latino communities. Articles, conferences and white papers have warned of these consequences for years. ...Read more

The outcome of the 2024 election has resulted in no shortage of Democratic finger-pointing. While the postmortem and soul-searching are necessary, the tone and tenor of the blame game have begun to morph into something more insidious.

In the last weeks we have seen an increasing demand for the Democratic Party to abandon its association with ...Read more

Some Californians were carving Halloween pumpkins and taking their kids trick-or-treating when they cast their ballots in this year’s election. Now they’re putting up Christmas trees while officials are still tallying votes in some places.

With the vast majority of ballots counted, most of the races have been called by media organizations ...Read more

Donald Trump’s Saturday night announcement that he’s going to nominate a new director of the FBI, the woefully unqualified and completely unfit Kash Patel, is premature by a few years because the director’s position is not open. Director Chris Wray was nominated by Trump in his first Oval Office stint and confirmed 92–5 by the Senate, ...Read more

They were children when their families’ Palm Springs homes were bulldozed and burned as part of the systematic destruction of a community. Now they’re in their 60s or older, and their loss is finally being acknowledged.

The mostly Black and Latino families affected had found a haven on a 1-square-mile tract of land known as Section 14. ...Read more

Where do we go in the aftermath of our recent elections? As MAGA forces mobilize to swiftly implement Donald Trump’s agenda, the Democrats are counseled to look in the mirror to understand how they ceded the working class to Trump’s now bigger-tent Republican Party.

The thing is, one cannot truly comprehend today’s new political landscape...Read more

It wasn’t a good Thanksgiving for Hamas. Not that the terrorist group celebrates the American holiday, but it has to be feeling particularly un-thankful as its chokehold on horror seems to be slipping following the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal.

“I do think that Hamas is feeling the pressure. They’re feeling the pressure because one of ...Read more

They were children when their families’ Palm Springs homes were bulldozed and burned as part of the systematic destruction of a community. Now they’re in their 60s or older, and their loss is finally being acknowledged.

The mostly Black and Latino families affected had found a haven on a 1-square-mile tract of land known as Section 14. ...Read more

For most Americans this election has brought exhaustion, divisiveness and, for many, fear and deep pain. After the election Tom Nichols wrote in The Atlantic: “Americans must stay engaged and make their voices heard at every turn.” And Liz Cheney tweeted, “Citizens across this country … must now be the guardrails of democracy.”

But ...Read more

Say this for Illinois: We love our fluoride.

Back in the 1940s, three Chicago suburbs were among the guinea pigs in an experiment to uncover the benefits of fluoridated drinking water. The mineral occurred naturally in west suburban Aurora, so its water system became a baseline. Then Evanston added fluoride and Oak Park went without. Over 15 ...Read more

Latin America is considering shorter working hours. As noble as the goal of improving working conditions may be, however, the region’s governments also run the risk of deepening its serious labor informality and low productivity.

Colombia and Chile have already passed legislation cutting the legal working day to 42 and 40 hours per week ...Read more

There is an argument that the single most important issue resulting in Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris is the illegal immigration that the Biden-Harris administration not only tolerated but encouraged. The problem had grown untenable by Trump’s first victory in 2016 and was a key issue then as well.

Yet from the beginning, the ...Read more

Did you see that former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, who lasted less than a Scaramucci as President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Justice Department, has a new side hustle? He's now offering customized videos for a fee to fans on the website Cameo.

I mean, why not? Politicians are well versed in the art of selling themselves. And Gaetz is ...Read more

A mentor once told me that we take better care of our pets than we do older victims of mistreatment. As a researcher, I have sat across from people, including grown men, crying while recounting harrowing experiences of discovering and confronting elder financial exploitation within their families — by siblings, sons and daughters, nieces and ...Read more

For those of us committed to protecting the ocean, it’s always been clear that restoring healthy seas will be the work of our lifetimes, and that of others who’ll come after us.

Unlike the majority of Americans, I believe the Biden administration did a decent job, particularly in responding to the climate emergency we’re currently living ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to oversee the nation's 18 intelligence agencies, is a woman of strong views, vigorously expressed.

A former Bernie Sanders Democrat, she now says the Democratic Party is controlled by "an elitist cabal of warmongers" that includes "rogue intelligence and law enforcement ...Read more