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Spain shows Europe's right where it's gone wrong

Ambiguous election results may have left Spain facing months of political uncertainty. But the vote delivered a clear message to the rest of Europe.

2023-07-31 16:00

Cultural artifacts inspired by the Korean War prove it is hardly forgotten 70 years later

The new film “Oppenheimer” guarantees fresh debates about America ending World War II by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945.Odd but true: Only eight years later, in 1953, a troupe of mostly American musical artists - Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge and Gene Krupa, among others - received rapturous applause in Tokyo as part of producer Norman Granz's...

2023-07-30 16:00

The message in 'Try That in a Small Town' is clear

Country singer Jason Aldean's “Try That in a Small Town” is far from the worst agitprop ever to hit the American scene. But the song hunkered down in the trenches of the culture war this week, which seems to have been its destination all along.

2023-07-27 16:00

SLO schools are victims of cyberattacks

In mid-June, the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education discovered that an "outside source" had attacked its computer system, crippling the financial network that serves every school district in the county.

2023-07-27 15:40

Medical debt is making Americans angry

For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2½ years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to save their home.

2023-07-26 16:00

No Labels seeks a middle ground that doesn't exist anymore

Who would be hurt most by a third-party presidential campaign by the No Labels movement, President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump? It's hard to say.

2023-07-25 16:00

If you never got sick from COVID, thank your genes

Even as COVID has faded into the background for most of the public, our curiosity about the virus's idiosyncrasies hasn't waned. Why does one member of a household suffer a hacking cough but another not even a sniffle? Why does long COVID afflict some and not others? A cluster of new studies suggests some of the answers lie in our genes. What scientists are learning could hel...

2023-07-24 16:00

'Oppenheimer' is here. Is Hollywood still afraid of the truth about the atomic bomb?

In 1945, Hollywood set in motion its first big-budget movie drama about the making and use of the atomic bomb. Almost immediately a competing project emerged (with a screenplay by Ayn Rand, no less). Yet for over seven decades, only two other major movie dramas about this epochal event emerged from a studio. Now that is changing with Friday's arrival of Christopher Nolan's mu...

2023-07-23 16:00

How we got interminable summer breaks from school - and what we can do about it

Our long summer vacation is a relic from an agricultural past when kids were needed for seasonal work on farms - or so we've been told. Since that's no longer the case, we should lay the three-month summer break to rest, right?

2023-07-20 16:00

Can the US and United Nations do anything about Haiti?

Last week, the United Nations Security Council, a body typically riven by substantive disagreements among its permanent member states, managed to come together on Haiti. The small, impoverished nation of 11.5 million has been in a desperate state even before its former president, Jovenel Moise, was assassinated in his home two years ago. The U.S. and Russia don't agree on muc...

2023-07-20 15:40

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