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Venezuela is amid a humanitarian crisis. Our Latin American neighbor has suffered through a pinwheeling economy dependent on oil. That and years of authoritarian leadership from former President Hugo Chavez and now his loyalist President Nicolas Maduro have led to widespread hunger and hyperinflation. Reports have depicted Venezuelans rooting through refuse for food, suffering through power outages and enduring a health system near collapse. Weekly salaries might cover the cost of a meal. Faucets are dry, finding clean water...
In a horrifying moment, joy was shattered. The members of Tree of Life Congregation came together in uplifting prayer Saturday morning in what they thought was the safest of places — their synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. It was Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, and on top of that, there was a baby-naming ceremony to celebrate the start of life. A gunman shouting anti-Semitic slurs and carrying an assault rifle and several handguns killed at least 11 people and wounded six more. And once again, our nation w...
The death of Mollie Tibbetts is a tragedy, and it’s one that highlights important concerns about this nation’s immigration policy, as well as the intolerable regularity of violence against women. The killing of the 20-year-old University of Iowa student, however, does not, in its newsworthiness, rise to the level of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 election, any possible collusion of President Donald Trump with Russia, and the cascade of other illegalities now uncovered. The c...
The NFL always has been averse to off-the-field controversy. But the league came up short last week when it altered its national anthem policy to try to defuse an issue that dogged it last fall. Some players knelt during the anthem as a social protest, following the lead of then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick in 2016 began taking a knee to object to police brutality and racism. When dozens of players did the same last year, President Donald Trump catalyzed a nationwide debate with harsh attacks...
When deficit warrior Paul Ryan came to Congress in 1999, the national debt was $5.6 trillion. When House Speaker Paul Ryan leaves in 2019, the figure will be about $22 trillion. In announcing his retirement from Congress, Ryan touted on Wednesday as his greatest accomplishments an enormous tax cut that will devastate suburbs like Long Island, and a bill massively hiking military spending. Thanks to those two initiatives, that national debt will reach $30 trillion by 2028. The debt will have grown from 40 percent of gross...
