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Sun, September 25, 2022 | 20:15

No, Mr. President, the pandemic isn't over

On “60 Minutes” on Sept. 18, President Joe Biden declared “the pandemic is over.” Well into our third year of battling COVID-19, we all wish that were true. But unfortunately, that is a fantasy right now. All the data tell us the virus is not contained. Far too many people are dying and suffering. And new, worrisome variants are on the horizon.

2022-09-25 17:00

Climate change is a big problem. Citizens must demand many small solutions

The world is on fire. The flames are hard to see, because we hide them so well. But you can hear them - in the whine of jet engines as planes streak across the sky, in the rumble of power plants as they send electricity surging over power lines, in the purr of your car engine as you drive to work.

2022-09-22 17:33

College rankings don't matter. Whether a school is a good fit does

The news that Columbia University filed fraudulent data to rise in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings has again raised the question of what these rankings mean. Does anyone imagine that as Columbia “plunged” from No. 2 to No. 18 (as its ranking was reassessed by U.S. News on its own estimated data) that the Columbia students sitting in their classrooms in Upper Man...

2022-09-22 14:46

Putin's brutality in Ukraine can get worse. Get ready for a chilly winter

Russia's imperious president, Vladimir Putin, may have just endured his worst week since the collapse of the Soviet Union, which he says was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.

2022-09-21 14:14

Will vaccine fatigue affect how many people get bivalent booster?

Pfizer's and Moderna's bivalent boosters, which are now available to many age groups, offer protection against the original COVID-19 virus plus the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. Is the nation ready for yet another COVID-19 vaccine shot?

2022-09-20 15:15

National 15-week abortion ban would be nightmare

When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, striking down a constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion and directing decisions on abortion to be made by the states, Republican lawmakers hailed that approach. But no one - neither abortion rights supporters nor abortion opponents - expected GOP members of Congress to stop the assault on reproductive rights, no mat...

2022-09-19 14:40

What can save restaurants? Try hospitality

COVID-19 and inflation have knocked restaurants to their knees, and everyone with a vested interest, from owner to chef to server to customer, seems to have an opinion on how to get them up and running again.

2022-09-18 14:22

Americans fueled the rise of Nazis and the Holocaust

Today, in America, we stand at a peculiar and frightening crossroads.

2022-09-15 14:53

Plastic might be making you obese

The global obesity epidemic is getting worse, especially among children, with rates of obesity rising over the past decade and shifting to earlier ages. In the U.S., roughly 40 percent of today's high school students were overweight by the time they started high school. Globally, the incidence of obesity has tripled since the 1970s, with fully 1 billion people expected to be ...

2022-09-14 14:52

China's economy is slowing, its population aging

China's economy is in trouble. The juggernaut that once looked bound for global domination is slowing down - and not only in the short run.

2022-09-13 15:11

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