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The history of this nation is regrettably rife withstories of children being exploited, exhausted, injured and robbed of their educational potential by employers who saw them as little more than commodities. For all too brief a time, Florida leaders viewed that as a bad thing. They voted, often overwhelmingly, for laws that were even stronger than federal protections. Now, however, this state’s lawmakers appear eager to join other states that are abandoning those safeguards one by one. At the start of the 2024 legislative session, a quartet of bills that would tear gaping holes in Florida’s ch...
Orlando Sentinel
Next month, my bride, Elvira, and I will celebrate 45 years of marriage. Forgive me, but I’m pretty impressed with the longevity of our union. In this case, I make the rare exception of seeing no shame in my pride at this accomplishment. I feel this all the more so because my generation — baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964 — is increasingly getting divorced more than any other. Between 1990 and 2021, the rate of divorce among people age 65 and older tripled, growing more than any other age group, according to an analysis published in 2023 by Bowling Green State University’s National Cent...
Chicago Tribune
Back in 1998, Madeleine Albright, then the secretary of state, called the United States the “indispensable nation.” She meant that this country, armed with unmatchable force and influence, stood at the helm of a web of alliances and global organizations that guided world events. More than 50 years after the invention of nuclear weapons, the U.S. had presided over a Pax Americana that had kept the peace among the nuclear powers. Today, more than a quarter century later, are we still the indispensable nation? The answer is yes — but probably not for much longer. The era of Pax Americana is endin...
Chicago Tribune
“Most Americans have no idea why Putin invaded Ukraine or what his goals are now,” the pundit-poodle Tucker Carlson observed before his Feb. 6 interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “They’ve never heard his voice. That’s wrong.” What total claptrap. We’ve never been under any illusions about why Putin invaded Ukraine, his being a naked grab for power and control at the expense of a sovereign nation. Putin’s goals, any fool can see, are the subjugation of a proud and independent people with (for the record) a long history here in Chicago. This particular editorial board would be delight...
Chicago Tribune
The standardized test, badly battered in recent years as universities moved to more holistic admissions models during the COVID pandemic and in the wake of Supreme Court rulings upending race-conscious admissions, isn’t down for the count quite yet — and that’s a good thing for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. This month, Dartmouth became the first Ivy League school to resume requiring students to submit their SAT or ACT score, starting next year, moving away from a test-optional policy that, while well-intentioned, wasn’t having the desired effect. This isn’t just about a small cl...
New York Daily News
Six months ago, we suggested that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Stormy Daniels hush money criminal case against Donald Trump take a backseat to the federal and Georgia state election subversion cases and the federal pilfered document case. The argument was that the offenses were far greater in the other prosecutions, as would be the penalties should Trump be convicted. The other three also occurred when Trump was president, related directly to his abuse of his office, while the alleged illegal Stormy deception began when he was still a candidate. Leading with your strongest hand wa...
New York Daily News
One way or another, Valentine’s Day week seemed mostly consumed with the complicated courtships of Donald Trump. Anchors with famous faces spent most of the week pinballing between Trump’s criminal and civil cases in courthouses in New York City, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and South Florida. They kept us up-to-the-minute on the maneuverings involving 91 charges contained in the four indictments involving America’s 45th president. They include criminal cases focusing on Trump’s actions as president that go to the heart of America’s democracy: Federal charges and state charges that Trump, while a...
Tribune News Service
Most readers of a certain age will remember immediately the wistful, lilting tune that conveys this lyric: “Last night I had the strangest dream/I ever dreamed before/I dreamed the world had all agreed/To put an end to war.” This song was written in 1950 by folk singer Ed McCurdy. It reflected the devastation of World War II, the developing nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union and the mounting tension in Korea, and it anticipated the incipient Vietnam War. In fact, “Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream” was an unofficial anthem for an ambitious anti-war movement that...
Tribune News Service
For years, the Pew Research Center listed Black Americans as having the highest levels of religiosity and faith. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in fact, was known as “the moral conscience of America” by many Americans, irrespective of race. King was not exceptional in this regard. Black people’s relationship with faith and spirituality has been essential to their survival in a society that has sanctioned, tacitly or explicitly, the brutalization and subjugation of Black bodies, historically and up to the present day. With nowhere to turn but God, Black people developed a big-picture vision o...
Chicago Tribune
Patriotism is love of country, and it can be a very positive force. All countries benefit when their people feel a sense of belonging and believe in their country’s goodness. But as our nation becomes more polarized and patriotism is used by some as a litmus test to judge and quickly condemn others, it makes sense to step back and ask ourselves: Has patriotism today lost its way? Let’s start with the basics. We learn from Socrates in the “Republic” (and it is confirmed by our experience) that no country is just, altogether good. It’s just a fact that human beings cannot create perfection. Perh...
Tribune News Service
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