What Lincoln can tell us about MAGA
Something is clearly happening with Donald Trump. Even a year ago, I don’t think he would have begun a rally with 12 minutes of rambling remarks about late golfer Arnold Palmer, concluding with a discussion of the size of Palmer’s penis.
We have extreme inequality in America, and it’s getting worse
Bloomberg recently reported that Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is now worth over $200 billion. He’s not alone. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk, and LVMH founder Bernard Arnault are also worth north of $200 billion.
Letters to the editor for October 22
Time for ‘reasonable and sane’ approach
Letters to the editor for October 21
Guidance from League of Women Voters
Vegan meals should be standard in hospitals — Here’s why
Vegan food is medicine. But during a recent hospital stay, I saw an absurd number of animal-derived foods on the menu: greasy cheese, cholesterol-laden meat, fatty dairy milk. It made about as much sense as a mechanic pouring tallow into an engine.
As I See It: The cost of living here
Hawaii is a wonderful place to live, if you can afford it.
Westside Stories: The cure for island fever
I had to get off the rock.
Letters — Your voice — for October 17
Pohakuloa and the Red Flag Warning
Ticking down — The states take aim at TikTok
Last week, 14 state attorneys general, including New York AG Tish James, sued the social media platform TikTok for allegedly damaging young users’ mental health and collecting information about them with its service in violation of state and federal laws.
Hey, big spenders — Trump’s plans bust the federal budget
The Republican Party is the party of fiscal responsibility? It’s been a laughable idea ever since presidents like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have pushed massive, unpaid-for, deficit-ballooning tax cuts skewed to deliver the biggest benefits to the wealthiest among us.
We may face another ‘too big to fail’ scenario as AI labs go unchecked
In the span of two or so years, OpenAI, Nvidia and a handful of other companies essential to the development of artificial intelligence have become economic behemoths. Their valuations and stock prices have soared. Their products have become essential to Fortune 500 companies. Their business plans are the focus of the national security industry. Their collapse would be, well, unacceptable. They are too big to fail.
If the pro-life movement loses this one, its future is in danger
I’ll never forget the first time I heard my oldest daughter’s heartbeat. My wife was experiencing trouble in the first three months of pregnancy, and we were worried she was miscarrying. We rode together to her doctor’s office, full of anxiety. And then we heard the magical sound — the pulsing of our little girl’s tiny heart. We didn’t know if she would ultimately be OK, but there was one thing we knew: Our daughter was alive.
Letters — Your voice — for October 12
Free speech doesn’t mean lie endlessly
Letters to the editor for October 8
Thoughts on native birds being targeted
Hate math? Time to rethink developmental math courses
Mathematics — whatever your experience in school, you are likely to have developed a strong opinion. It’s quite possible you’ve been turned off for years; math tends to do that to some people.
US workers need paid parental leave
My first and only child is 12 years old. Our dream of having a second child seemed out of reach. But then, in what seemed like a miracle, I became pregnant.
Trump and Harris want weed legalized, but they ignore the downsides
Legalizing marijuana isn’t as hot-button an issue in this election as abortion or immigration, but both presidential candidates former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have weighed in, and for once, they’re in agreement.
Without aid, this famine may become one of history’s worst
Famine has already been officially declared in Sudan, and by some estimates, it could claim millions of lives and end up as one of the worst famines in world history. For now, it’s in the early stages, but there are already far too many starving children. When I traveled to the Chad-Sudan border last month, I met one of them with his mom in a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders.
Letters — your voice – for October 5
‘Affordable’ might not be right word
As I See It: The stuntman
A certain candidate has a history of attention getting -events that serve to get his face and name in the news many times a day. Free publicity! Most not quite as dramatic as Sept 16. Or July 13. The Golden Escalator, Deus ex machina (God from the machine) tactic was an early warning that as a candidate he would not play fair, but as it is said, all’s fair in love and war. Politics are a bloodless (almost) form of warfare. He blithely talks about shooting someone on 5th avenue. Free publicity!