Las Vegas Sun

May 3, 2024

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  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump sits in Manhattan state court in New York, Monday, April 23, 2024.
    Our heroes often let us down
    Donald Trump is in court right now. But not everyone understands that this is not a “hush money” case. He isn’t charged with being unfaithful to his wife or even with paying a woman to keep quiet about his affair. He is charged with falsifying ...
  • Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump, left, embraces South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem at a campaign rally Saturday, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio.
    Women of Trump’s GOP jockey to be the most macho
    Slaughtering wolves from helicopters? Castrating hogs? Shooting up Priuses with assault weapons? Murdering misbehaving puppies? Is this what it takes for a Republican woman to be a credible candidate for higher office? ...
  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attends a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington.
    Calls from the left for Sotomayor to retire are absurd
    The left’s absurd calls for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down so that President Joe Biden can name a younger replacement should be roundly condemned. To be sure, such pressure is an American tradition in the never-ending battle to “control” the Supreme Court. But the tactic is ...
  • We pay a price for upper-class state legislators
    There is a coordinated, nationwide effort to roll back child labor laws, part of a broader campaign to concentrate even more power into the hands of employers ...
  • Civics education strengthens democracy
    A survey from the American Bar Association shows that most Americans are pessimistic about our nation’s democracy and are worried about the coming election. It is another reminder of the fragility of our democratic system at this ...
  • Arizona Senate candidate, Republican Kari Lake, speaks during a rally in Cave Creek, Ariz., on March. 14, 2024. A handful of Arizona Republican legislators looking to overturn a 160-year-old state law that bans nearly all abortions have a new high-profile supporter: Kari Lake, a prominent Senate candidate and a close ally of Donald Trump.
    Arizona’s indictment of Trump allies follows a sordid, racist history
    I’ve lived and/or worked in 10 states scattered across the country. Arizona was and remains the most complicated. The same state that elected the first openly gay mayor of a large U.S. city is also the state that did not want a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. ...
  • Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    Yes, you should tip, but you shouldn’t have to tip
    The topic of tipping has generated intense debate lately as an increasing number of restaurants impose “service charges” on top of regular bills ...
  • Will Columbia protesters achieve their goals?
    I fear that the current round of campus protests is wearing out its welcome.
  • Multiple sclerosis discovery could be a breakthrough
    We’ve made significant progress in developing better treatments for multiple sclerosis over the past two decades.
  • New Iron Age of electricity storage is at hand
    Since electricity was first deployed, there has been a missing link: storage.
  • Republicans aren’t protecting elections; they don’t want democracy
    The next time House Speaker Mike Johnson stands in front of a microphone to talk about election integrity, I want you to remember this: Nearly a third of voters in Louisiana are Black, and yet Black voters had control over less than 20% of the state’s congressional districts. White voters make up less than ...
  • In Europe, they cheer passage of Ukraine aid but worry about possible Trump future
    On April 19, I watched an audience of European and American political officials and strategic experts pay rapt attention as U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told them Congress would enact a Ukraine aid package that ...
  • Homeless advocates protest a proposed city ordinance outside of Las Vegas City Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. The ordinance would make homeless encampments illegal if beds are available through the city or nonprofit organizations.
    Criminalizing homelessness reveals society’s cruelty and solves nothing
    The health of a culture can be evaluated by two observations: how the citizens of that culture conduct themselves in public and how well vulnerable members of a society are cared for by their culture. On both counts the homeless crisis in America highlights failures of ...
  • Election workers feed ballots into machines during a recount of mail-in ballots at the Clark County Election Department, Thursday, June 30, 2022, in North Las Vegas, Nev.
    Veterans stepping up to serve our democracy
    Poll workers power elections. This is true across the country and here in Nevada. Every election cycle, it is local citizens stepping forward to serve their communities that enable Nevadans to vote and trust that their votes will be ...
  • A woman is arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Austin.
    Bullying and intimidation are not free speech
    The eyes of the United States should be upon Texas. At least when it comes down to a university protecting its students and campus from the violence that can result from free speech that comes with a price. That price is ...
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