Editorial

On Memorial Day, remembering MLB’s first WWI fatality

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Eddie Grant, a Harvard Law School graduate and a former third baseman who played for the Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and New York Giants, was the first major league baseball player killed in World War I.

Did Putin wait until Biden became president to invade Ukraine?

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In the days after Russia attacked Ukraine, there was a lot of talk among Republicans that Vladimir Putin would not have invaded had Donald Trump still been president. Trump was so difficult to predict, so impulsive, so impetuous, the thinking went, that Putin would not have risked a massive U.S. response under Trump.

Extremists don’t reflect an entire demographic of political thinkers

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The shooter in Buffalo had a racist motive. He wanted to kill Black people. We don’t know exactly how he developed his hatred, but we know that it was the motivating factor in his rampage because it’s confirmed by his own words.

All babies deserve food

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Feeding babies, the most vulnerable among us, is critically important.

Breaking mental illness stigmas

Mental health issues are more prevalent than one may believe. More than half of people with mental illness don’t receive help for their disorders and often avoid seeking treatment due to stigmas surrounding the disease.

Hollywood, like society, has trouble with the truth

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We’re living in gray times, bobbing in a sea of information where there is no longer much black or white. We have access to more content than ever — plus raging uncertainty about how much is fact or fiction.

Learn the signs of heat exhaustion

The first day of summer will be here soon, and heat indexes here have already been soaring into the high-nineties.

Keep pets safe with vaccination

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Vaccinating pets should be an enforceable requirement for ownership.

What if Dems had made the economy even worse?

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President Biden likes to blame inflation on the COVID pandemic and the war in Ukraine — or, as he says, “Putin’s price hike.” But the fact is, Biden’s own actions, and those of his party, have also contributed significantly to the rise in the cost of living that is making it harder and harder for many Americans to make ends meet. And that rise, in turn, is feeding a terrible pessimism among Americans about the state of the country.

Everyone deserves to live a life without abuse

Between 960,000 and four million women are abused each year by their husbands or live-in partners.