Opinion

April 28, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

President Donald Trump proposed eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the entire staff was laid off on March 31. This is not the first time he suggested this as a...

April 28, 2025 | 8 MIN READ

Anumber of otherwise skeptical senators took at face value the pledge by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Senate hearings in January to “follow the science” on issues related to the causes...

April 27, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Keeping our community healthy and saving lives -requires bold initiatives. Hawaii Island’s health care providers are making those bold moves. If we hope to move the needle and improve th...

April 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Who remembers the milkman?

April 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

More should be done to tackle light pollution

April 24, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Trump is mentally ill and dangerous

April 22, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Trump’s Executive Order

April 21, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

ARLINGTON, Mass. — Driving through this old New England town, visiting relatives to celebrate Passover, I noticed every house on the street sported an American flag.

April 21, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

America has your back. That has been the message of U.S. foreign policy to the world’s vulnerable since the end of World War II.

April 19, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Whom do you believe?

April 17, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Trump administration’s ‘utter lack of humanity’

April 15, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Parks and Recreation did a wonderful job

April 15, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Social Security is at the center of the fiscal emergency that threatens the U.S. Yet Washington is always reluctant to grapple with it honestly, partly because the issue is misunderstood....

April 15, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanis...

April 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Donald Trump caved.

April 14, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured and educated democracy of my great grandparents could succumb so tra...