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Commentary: Why Medicaid work requirements won't work
The U.S. labor market is a truly astonishing thing to behold. It includes 171 million Americans, as young as 14 and older than 90, some who never finished elementary school and others with PhDs.
It is resilient and dynamic, shrinking during recessions but growing again after. It provides the majority of Americans with the majority of their ...Read more
COUNTERPOINT: Trump is upholding the constitution by calling out its weaknesses
When asked in May whether he needed to uphold the Constitution of the United States, President Donald Trump responded, “I don’t know.”
That answer seemed to shock many, but perhaps it shouldn’t have. Rather than signaling disregard, Trump’s response reflected a rare, if blunt, honesty about the serious constitutional flaws that have ...Read more

POINT: Trump's unconstitutional actions threaten democracy
President Donald Trump is pursuing a path that is actively destabilizing the guardrails of our Constitution. Unless he changes course, our nation — the world’s oldest continuing democracy — risks a crisis where the president is no longer beholden to the rule of law. Americans will suffer the consequences.
America’s Founding Fathers ...Read more

Steve Lopez: If people taking care of our elders get deported, will anyone take their place?
LOS ANGELES -- She rides three buses from her Panorama City home to her job as a caregiver for an 83-year-old Sherman Oaks woman with dementia, and lately she's been worrying about getting nabbed by federal agents.
When I asked what she'll do if she gets deported, B., who's 60 and asked me to withhold her name, paused to compose herself.
"I ...Read more

Gustavo Arellano: Homeland Security's 'sanctuary city' list is riddled with errors. The sloppiness is the point
LOS ANGELES — The Department of Homeland Security's "sanctuary jurisdiction list" has more holes than the plot for the latest "Mission Impossible" film.
All you need to know about its accuracy is how my native Orange County fared.
The only O.C. city on the list is Huntington Beach — you know, the 'burb with an all-Republican council that's...Read more

Commentary: Outrage over Trump's electric vehicle policies is misplaced
Electric car subsidies are heading for the chopping block. A tax bill recently passed by House Republicans is set to stop billions in taxpayer cash from being spent on electric vehicle purchases.
If embraced by the Senate and signed into law by President Donald Trump, the bill would gut long-standing government handouts for going electric.
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Editorial: The Boulder attack should deepen Colorado's support for the Jewish community
The community of Boulder has once again suffered a horrific attack. On Sunday, a terrorist fueled by antisemitism attempted to burn people alive who had gathered on the Pearl Street Mall to walk in solidarity with Israeli hostages still held captive by Hamas.
We pray fervently for the eight victims to survive this horror and fully recover from ...Read more

Editorial: The world promised by AI isn't necessarily a better one
Artificial intelligence is reshaping human beings' relationship with the world around us, with knowledge, with each other and with our very selves.
While similar claims could be made about previous disruptive technologies, from the plow to the internal combustion engine to the microchip, each of which altered societies and humans' self-...Read more

Commentary: How big of a threat is China really?
Last June, during an annual security conference in East Asia, then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underscored that the United States was not seeking conflict with China. Maintaining a consistent dialogue with Beijing, he hinted, was just as vital to effective deterrence as ensuring the U.S. military was fully equipped and prepared.
Fast-forward...Read more

Mark Gongloff: Arizona's water is vanishing before AI gets a crack at it
While we worry about the growing threat of robots guzzling up America’s groundwater, we can’t ignore the risk that cows will consume it all first.
A new study by researchers at Arizona State University put the depth of our water problem in perspective. It found that groundwater in the lower Colorado River basin — a region filling up with...Read more

Editorial: Ukraine hits back hard -- Drone strikes show Russia's got plenty to lose
Helmets off to the Ukrainians for giving the Russian aggressors a humiliating black eye and the loss of $7 billion in military hardware using 117 relatively cheap drones.
Yes, war is hell and that pain should be felt by the instigators of war (like Vladimir Putin) and not just the victims (like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy). What the...Read more

Lisa Jarvis: The MAHA report's errors are just the start of its problems
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new Make America Healthy Again report offers a road to wellness for the nation’s children paved not with the gold-standard science he promised, but with pyrite.
The report, created by a MAHA commission that includes all of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, mixes nuggets of truth— like the...Read more

Editorial: Elon Musk is putting the DOGE chain saw down, but the damage has been done
The roughly $100 million SpaceX Starship rocket that blew up last week coincided with Elon Musk’s costly flameout overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.
SpaceX, one of Musk’s companies that has benefited from at least $38 billion in corporate welfare from the federal government, termed the failed rocket mission a “rapid ...Read more

Editorial: Hamas again holds up peace talks in Middle East
The latest cease-fire proposal that seeks to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas is in jeopardy. The reason shouldn’t be a surprise: The terror group refuses to give up its murderous efforts to drive the Jewish state into the sea.
The White House over the weekend offered a new plan to end the hostilities, at least temporarily. But ...Read more

Editorial: Colorado, a wake-up call
The Egyptian national accused of using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to terrorize a group of Israeli hostage supporters in Colorado was in the U.S. illegally.
It’s exactly what the Trump administration is fighting against: An antisemite in our land illegally.
Yet, our attorney general in Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell, puts ...Read more

Commentary: California's proposed ban on plants near homes could be dangerously bad advice
One of the most striking patterns in the aftermath of many urban fires is how much unburned green vegetation remains amid the wreckage of burned neighborhoods.
In some cases, a row of shrubs may be all that separates a surviving house from one that burned just a few feet away.
As scientists who study how vegetation ignites and burns, we aren�...Read more

Michael Hiltzik: MAHA report's misrepresentations will harm public health and hit consumers' pocketbooks
Serious followers of healthcare policy in the U.S. didn't expect much good to emerge from its takeover by President Donald Trump and his secretary of Health and Human Services, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
But the agency and its leadership managed to live down to the worst expectations May 27, when HHS released a 73-page "...Read more

Commentary: Eliminating HIV prevention is a public health crisis
The Trump administration is planning to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention. The collapse of HIV prevention will mean 143,000 additional people in the United States will acquire HIV in the next five years. We are on the cusp of a public health crisis.
The most recent attack on the reproductive...Read more

David Mills: Why modern politics is civil war carried on by other means
He was not a philosopher MAGA would read, but he was also not a philosopher mainstream liberals would read. And not just because that would mean admitting they didn't know as much as they thought and needed help in thinking more deeply — a fact about ourselves, to be fair, most of us don't want to accept — but because he wouldn't come down ...Read more

Commentary: After decades of taking others' freedom, prosecutors cry foul over fixing their mistakes
Louisiana District Attorneys Association (LDAA), a special interest lobbying group, stands in the way of justice in Louisiana. On May 21, the LDAA successfully blocked a legislative pathway for hundreds of people to receive fair constitutional trials. Louisiana is the only state in the United States of America where people are serving sentences ...Read more