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  Misplaced outrage over WNBA contract should spark change

  By Roy Johnson

  America’s gender pay gap is real, extremely real. Women with full-time wages and salaries earned 83.6% of what men did in 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now, the world is losing its mind over WNBA No. 1 draft pick Caitlin Clark’s rookie contract: four years totaling $338,056 — about $84,500 annually ...

• No one likes this kind of surprise

  By Nedra Rhone

  Clinical lab tests are at the top of the chart when it comes to consumers’ ongoing concerns about surprise bills, according to some industry reports ...

• RFK Jr., like Nader, would help the Republican presidential candidate

  By Melinda Henneberger

  On “Let’s Make a Deal,” either a dream vacation or a worthless “zonk” might be behind Door No. 3. But in November ...

• A cancer survivor’s advice: Research, persistence and second opinions

  By Steve Lopez

  In the fall of 2022, Robin Clough and Dr. Gene Dorio were going about their lives as they had for many years, serving older adults in Southern California. Clough was busy with her work as an administrator at the local senior center while Dorio, a house-call geriatrician ...

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  Just say no to Christian chaplains in public schools

  By Solomon Stevens

  There is a growing movement to install Christian chaplains in public schools. The Washington Post reports that bills are pending in nine states, have passed in one legislative chamber in three states, and Florida has a bill waiting for the governor’s signature. This is clearly unconstitutional; it is bad for ...

• How can evangelicals tolerate Trump?

  By LZ Granderson

  At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked hard in our conversation to convince me that ...

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  History foretells Israeli response to Iran attack

  By Brian Greenspun

  Israel needs to strike back — hard! Whatever a few countries and the unknowledgeable and gullible left in the United States say about Israel’s right to defend itself against those who would ...

• One murder changed our view of domestic violence

  By Robin Abcarian

  Weeks before she was slashed to death outside her Brentwood condo in 1994, O.J. Simpson’s ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, had predicted her own death ...

• How to create a secure supply chain for rare earth elements

  By Luisa Moreno

  China’s strong hold on the supply chain for rare earth elements is well known. Beyond stating that we need to shift our reliance on China and begin building robust domestic supply chains, what are the tangible, actionable steps that will get us there? ...

• Trump’s big lie only hurt himself

  By Mary Ellen Klas

  Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party has eviscerated the mail-in voting advantage party leaders spent two decades developing.

• DEI is like a scouting report: It highlights attributes that can get overlooked

  By Eric Foster

  Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and offices are being eliminated all over the country. The rationale for doing so is often explained as some version of “we should instead be focusing on trying to find the best people for the job.” The unspoken assertion is that these programs reduce the quality of the workforce.

• Congress should throw a bone to service dog programs

  By Robin Ganzert

  Congress has averted another government shutdown. But often lost in the shuffle during these multitrillion-dollar budget battles are appropriations for lifesaving veteran programs that employ wagging tails to heal invisible wounds of war.

• Will House speaker stand up to Trump on Ukraine aid?

  By Trudy Rubin

  How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and vengeful MAGA conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene.

• Supreme Court justices are oddly arrogant

  By Gene Nichol

  Students of the U.S. Supreme Court were enthusiastic to note Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s surprising concurring opinion in the Colorado presidential disqualification case, Trump v. Anderson.

• Forgiving loans is the least we can do

  By LZ Granderson

  President Joe Biden is at it again with student loan forgiveness.

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