Articles filed under Politics
-
Guest columnist Bonnie Jean Feldkamp: Did we really elect legislators to police love and belonging?Mar 01, 2023 12:00 am - By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp When my son was in preschool, he had two best buddies who were siblings. One boy. One girl. One day my son told me, "When I grow up, I'm going t...
-
Syndicated columnist Veronique de Rugy: The simple solution to the coming demographic challengeMar 01, 2023 12:00 am - Newspapers have been reporting on the demographic challenges in Asian nations like China, Japan and South Korea. Some expect China's population, for example, to be cut i...
-
China says TikTok ban reflects US insecuritiesFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - BEIJING - U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington's own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry...
-
UK's Sunak tries to win over skeptics to his Brexit dealFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - LONDON - U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Belfast on Tuesday to sell his landmark agreement with the European Union to its toughest audience: Unionist politic...
-
Blinken warns Central Asia of dangers from war in UkraineFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - The Biden administration on Tuesday pledged to support the independence of the five Central Asian nations in a not-so-subtle warning to the former Soviet states that Rus...
-
COVID-19 scamdemicFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - Are you dead? Probably not. You're reading this column. Am I dead? Well, not right now. I'm writing. Of course, by the time you read this, I could be the star of an unde...
-
Guest columnist Keith Peterson: Separated from family, Afghan scholar still waiting for U.S. to do the right thingFeb 28, 2023 12:00 am - Eighteen months ago, I wrote about three Afghans who had been awarded Fulbright scholarships and who had managed to leave Afghanistan just as the Taliban fighters were w...
-
Supreme Court student loan case: The arguments explainedFeb 27, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is about to hear arguments over President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan, which impacts millions of borrowers who could see their lo...
-
DeSantis takes over Disney district, punishing companyFeb 27, 2023 12:00 am - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed a bill that gives him control of Walt Disney World's self-governing district, punishing the company over i...
-
McHenry County settles on flag policy, but debate continuesFeb 26, 2023 12:00 am - Flying the Pride flag or flags representing veteran groups over McHenry County government facilities will require support of at least two-thirds of county board members,...