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Wed, August 10, 2022 | 04:06

Sanctions fatigue is next obstacle in confronting Putin

The momentum behind Western sanctions against Vladimir Putin is flagging. Even as the European Union toasts its toughest restrictions yet against the Russian war machine - including a partial ban on oil imports - concessions are mounting, from exempting pipeline crude to removing Putin's favorite cleric from the sanctions list.

2022-06-07 17:03

Sweden and Finland are joining NATO because Europeans can't stay neutral about Putin's war

Only days ago, Russian foreign ministry officials were warning Finland about “retaliation” if its leaders applied to join North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spouted dire nuclear threats, and many Western pundits warned about the danger of further NATO expansion.

2022-06-06 17:15

US gun violence spreads across border

“The youth will remember this as a time of war. Their DNA is tattooed with bullets and guns and blood, and this is a form of killing tomorrow. We are murderers of our own future,” Mexican reporter and editor Javier Valdez Cardenas said in 2011, as he received a press freedom award from the Committee to Project Journalists.

2022-06-06 17:00

Freedom to love my trans kid as he is

Last month, my son Alex graduated from Bennington College. I am incredibly proud of the young man he has become. He is much stronger than I was at his age. He knows exactly who he is. He is a poet and a scholar, who happens to be trans and gay. If it were not for gender-affirming care, I don't think he would be here today.

2022-06-05 16:13

Can we save the planet with food?

World Environment Day (June 5), led by the United Nations Environment Programme, serves as a reminder: Our Earth is a living organism, and every one of us is a part of its body. But that body is burning up with fever.

2022-06-02 16:40

America with less gun violence is still possible and worth fighting for

The mass slaying of 19 schoolchildren and two teachers evokes a pain that is almost too hard to express. Compounding this pain is anger - anger at knowing that the deaths of these children, the families in Buffalo, New York, the churchgoers in California and the shootings that happen seemingly every day in Chicago are preventable.

2022-06-02 16:33

Seven days in May ― saving America from within

“Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about right-wing Pentagon generals who tried to topple the U.S. government.

Shim Jae-yun | 2022-06-01 16:30

To deter China on Taiwan, Biden needs to reassure

Last week, in an unscripted moment, President Joe Biden warned bluntly that if China invades Taiwan, the United States will come to the island's defense.

2022-06-01 16:00

A trip revealed how serious Peru is taking pandemic. My return to Chicago led to infection

When the plane touched down in Chicago, I sighed with relief. After meticulous planning, we were returning from a two-week trip to Lima, Peru. We hadn't seen my partner's sister - soon to turn 91 years old - for five years and felt that with thorough precautions, we could keep ourselves and our loved ones safe while in Peru during the pandemic.

2022-05-31 17:00

Russia's nuclear threat endangers us all

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has made us all more acutely aware of the dangers of nuclear conflict than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Now, with Russia losing ground against an entrenched Ukrainian resistance, the stakes are only going to get higher.

2022-05-30 16:49

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