Editorial A suspicion that romaine or canteloupe or ground beef poses a threat to public health puts all hands on deck at restaurants and supermarkets to remove the suspect food. Get it off the market first and then ask questions.…
Posted: 18 September 2019 [03:13 PM] Posted: 18 September 2019 [03:13 PM] Editorial In September 2018, as the battle over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court raged, then-Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Sen. Christopher Coons, D-Del. struck a deal. Flake would delay confirming Kavanaugh until the FBI completed an…
Posted: 17 September 2019 [08:29 PM] Items that read “Skowhegan Indians” are still selling in town, the Morning Sentinel reported this week, as are shirts that say “Indian Outlaw” - an apparent reference to the state law passed earlier this year banning public schools from using…
Posted: 17 September 2019 [08:20 PM] Testimony from people who have lost family and friends to gun violence doesn’t seem to have much influenced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Nor have the views of nearly 90 percent of Americans, who polls show favor sensible gun-control measures…
Posted: 17 September 2019 [08:18 PM] Bloomberg Opinion It wasn’t long ago that there was talk about the automobile industry being in a slump that was tantamount to a recession. But that read didn’t take account for how consumers would respond to soaring costs for vehicle…
Posted: 17 September 2019 [08:15 PM] The Washington Post During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings last year, I remember thinking there was a better path for him than the shouting, conspiracy-peddling one he chose. I remember thinking he should have frankly addressed how much he’d drunk as…
Posted: 16 September 2019 [07:39 PM] Bloomberg Opinion For the last seven years, the free world has been largely quiet as the Republic of Georgia has fallen under the sway of its wealthiest citizen, Bidzina Ivanishvili. There have been some warnings. Transparency International and other nongovernment…
Posted: 16 September 2019 [07:39 PM] For nearly a century, many American college and university admissions officers have given preferential treatment to the children of alumni. The policies originated in the 1920s, coinciding with an influx of Jewish and Catholic applicants to the country’s top schools.…
Posted: 16 September 2019 [07:37 PM] The final week of October looms as a fateful moment for the institutions that defined the post-World War II era. One obvious reason is British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s aspirational Halloween deadline for his country’s departure from the European Union,…
Posted: 15 September 2019 [07:38 PM] Special To The Washington Post HILLSBORO, Ohio - I worked on Sen. Rob Portman’s staff in 2011 during his first nine months in the Senate and came to respect the Ohio Republican as a devoted family man who is…
Posted: 15 September 2019 [07:37 PM] President Donald Trump seems to be setting the stage for renewed talks with Iran over its nuclear program, raising the prospect of easing U.S. sanctions in exchange for a meeting with the Iranian president. Unless he reconsiders his goals for…
Posted: 15 September 2019 [07:37 PM] The Bahamas needs help. Hurricane Dorian hovered for about two days over the archipelago of islands a hop from Miami, causing massive damage yet to be calculated. Dorian clocked in as the second strongest Atlantic storm on record, with winds…
Posted: 13 September 2019 [02:29 PM] Editorial The departure of John Bolton as national security adviser on Tuesday - President Trump said he fired him, and Mr. Bolton maintained that he quit - was logical and overdue. A rigid ideologue, Mr. Bolton has a long record…
Posted: 13 September 2019 [02:28 PM] Editorial The number of Americans without health insurance rose last year, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, and Democrats say this justifies more government control. Yet the reality is more complicated - in particular, note that having a Medicaid card is…
Posted: 12 September 2019 [01:47 PM] Editorial As lawmakers do nothing, businesses adopt gun control measures If it seems like we just wrote about this a few weeks ago, it's because we did. Following the back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,…
Posted: 12 September 2019 [01:46 PM] Editorial He blew it by inviting Taliban to Camp David and not including Afghans in a peace deal. The process and product of President Donald Trump’s policy on Afghanistan is deeply flawed. Most of the focus is…
Posted: 11 September 2019 [02:34 PM] Editorial With Maine facing a workforce shortage that is only going to get worse, employers can’t afford to sit back and wait for good employees to come their way - they have to help produce them. Many companies have already…
Posted: 11 September 2019 [02:34 PM] Editorial President Donald Trump is going to get his wall on our nation’s border with Mexico -- or at least some sections of replacement fencing -- even if he has to stick it to the U.S. military to secure the…
Posted: 10 September 2019 [02:06 PM] Editorial What’s a repressive government to do when the Internet gives protesters new ways to speak up? That’s easy: shut the whole thing down. The New York Times reports that more than a quarter of countries in the world have…
Posted: 10 September 2019 [01:52 PM] Editorial When a trio of Friendly’s restaurants vanished from the Connecticut landscape in the spring, it was easier to notice than when most companies vanish or downsize. Chances are, you hadn’t been to Friendly’s in a while (don’t blame yourself…
Posted: 09 September 2019 [08:32 PM] Labor Day must have been grim this year at the headquarters of the United Auto Workers. Federal agents last week raided the homes of the union’s president, Gary Jones, and a former president. They haven’t been criminally charged, but it’s…
Posted: 09 September 2019 [08:30 PM] The phrase was opaque but vaguely appealing. Why would anyone want to repeal something called “net neutrality”? Neutral is inoffensive, right? So when the Federal Communications Commission debated whether to ditch the policy, many Americans joined in the energetic protests.…
Posted: 08 September 2019 [08:48 PM] Editorial The United States is headed into what promises to be among the most contentious and expensive campaign cycles in modern history - with foreign and domestic actors eager to make mischief - without the chief elections cop on the…
Posted: 08 September 2019 [08:47 PM] Editorial The spark for Walmart’s action is terrible: deadly shootings at two of its stores this summer, with 24 people slaughtered. Nonetheless, the giant retailer’s realization that “the status quo is unacceptable” should be applauded. Walmart will change its gun…
Posted: 06 September 2019 [02:37 PM] Editorial The withdrawal of the extradition bill in Hong Kong could be seen as an effort to bring a semblance of calm to the city where tensions have hit breaking point. But the announcement is unlikely to end the protests…
Posted: 06 September 2019 [02:34 PM] Editorial In the post-9/11 universe, airline passengers have no choice but to subject themselves and their belongings to screening by agents of the Transportation Security Administration. Sometimes that process is intrusive; sometimes it's even worse than that. It is vital…
Posted: 05 September 2019 [02:01 PM] Editorial Texas leaders who keep going through the motions of addressing mass shootings in this state without making significant changes should be ashamed. In the past two years, eight people were killed during a domestic dispute by a gunman…
Posted: 05 September 2019 [01:53 PM] Editorial Boris Johnson's attempt to sideline the British Parliament in order to force through the country's exit from the European Union seemed on Wednesday to have blown up in his face. Confronted with the prime minister's imminent imposition of a…
Posted: 04 September 2019 [02:28 PM] Editorial The Catholic Church, with strong backing from the insurance industry and the Boy Scouts of America, has been successful for years in blocking state legislation that would allow adults to bring lawsuits for sexual abuse they suffered as children.…
Posted: 04 September 2019 [02:11 PM] Editorial Building a casino, it turns out, is rather a gamble - and Connecticut leaders should take note of the latest revelations from Springfield before pursuing a similar course here. The tribes that operate Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, MGM, lawmakers…
Posted: 03 September 2019 [07:24 PM] The controversial way America elects presidents is barreling toward a crisis point. A federal court ruling has spotlighted the confounding nature of the system, which twice in the last five elections put presidents into office against the wishes of the…
Posted: 03 September 2019 [07:22 PM] Bloomberg Opinion One could almost feel sorry for that decidedly unloved crowd known as pipeline operators. Except they keep finding ways to make it really hard. Tallgrass Energy LP has received a buyout offer from an investor group led by…
Posted: 03 September 2019 [07:21 PM] Special To The Washington Post After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 2010, like many newly minted graduates, I started my legal career at a large corporate law firm headquartered in New York. I spent the first six years…
Posted: 02 September 2019 [07:41 PM] A French attempt to jump-start talks between the United States and Iran got plenty of attention over the weekend at the Group of Seven summit, but it might have been less serious than it seemed. Though President Trump agreed with…
Posted: 02 September 2019 [07:38 PM] Kudos are in order for world leaders who reacted quickly to forest fires in the Amazon that are so intense soot-darkened skies have turned day into night in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city thousands of kilometres away. Last Monday, the…
Posted: 01 September 2019 [08:29 PM] The Amazon is burning. That’s hugely troubling for all of us. The vast South American rainforest is our planet’s lungs. Its estimated 390 billion trees produce 20 percent of the world’s oxygen and suck immense amounts of carbon dioxide from…
Posted: 01 September 2019 [08:25 PM] Oklahoma has won a judgment of more than $572 million against corporate health care giant Johnson & Johnson after showing that the company’s role in the state’s opioid crisis created a public nuisance that “compromised the health and safety of…
Posted: 01 September 2019 [08:24 PM] We got used to his serial gaffes long ago. “That’s just Joe,” his friends and supporters say about his latest gaffes today. I’m not one to make fun of him by calling him “Sleepy Joe” or any of his other…
Posted: 01 September 2019 [08:21 PM] Special To The Washington Post President Donald Trump’s decision to direct his agriculture secretary to explore opening America’s largest national forest to logging comes as no surprise, considering that Friedrich Trump, the president’s grandfather, made his original fortune amid the…
Posted: 30 August 2019 [02:01 PM] Editorial New Hampshire should abandon its effort to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients. They are ill-conceived, ill-designed, ill-administered and, according to a federal judge, illegal. The new rules - which require most recipients to spend at least 100 hours…
Posted: 30 August 2019 [02:01 PM] Editorial Boris Johnson suffered from attenuated democratic legitimacy when he took office as British prime minister last month. Just 92,153 voters, all of them members of the Conservative Party, chose to install him at 10 Downing Street after the resignation…
Posted: 29 August 2019 [05:51 PM] Special To The Washington Post This has been a remarkable week of head-spinning incoherence from this White House. And for this White House, that is saying something. Yet despite that, it appears that nothing disastrous happened at the Group…
Posted: 29 August 2019 [05:49 PM] The Washington Post President Donald Trump doesn’t think highly of most international leaders, but he made sure to express his support for one in particular: Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil. “He is working very hard on the Amazon fires,…
Posted: 29 August 2019 [05:49 PM] It’s never a good day when you’re the governor and the state Ethics Commission decides to investigate you. It’s even worse when the investigation involves a lucrative no-bid contract you are trying to get the General Assembly to approve. It’s…
Posted: 28 August 2019 [02:15 PM] Editorial President Donald Trump got a letter recently that he and Congress ought to pay attention to. Mark Bradley, director of the Information Security Oversight Office of the National Archives and Records Administration, repeated a worrisome warning he delivered to…
Posted: 28 August 2019 [02:14 PM] Editorial The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is in dire need of a shake-up. Erin Deveney’s resignation in the aftermath of a deadly crash in New Hampshire that might not have happened had her agency done its job unscrewed the…
Posted: 27 August 2019 [08:01 PM] As if Connecticut didn’t already have enough reasons to resist the temptation to legalize - and tax - recreational marijuana sales, the Pew Charitable Trusts offered another this week. As reported by the Connecticut Mirror in the Aug. 20 Republican-American,…
Posted: 27 August 2019 [08:00 PM] People choose to pay a premium for organic food because they know it is produced following strict rules that prioritize healthy soil, crop diversity and animal welfare. Except when it isn’t. The misinterpretation of a rule governing organic livestock by…
Posted: 27 August 2019 [07:55 PM] In the early 1970s California was America’s Nirvana. It was a sunny, well-run, happy and free-spirited place of limitless opportunity where half the young people in Flyover Country wanted to move to, enjoy and spend the rest of their…
Posted: 27 August 2019 [07:53 PM] The Washington Post Joe Biden’s presidential campaign has not exactly been a rolling series of successes. In fact, most of the news about it has been bad: a controversy over the way Biden touches women and girls, another over his…
