Five myths about ransomware
Paying isn’t always the best way to get your data back.
National Opinions
Contacting aliens could end all life on Earth. Let’s stop trying.
Whatever the UFO report says, it’s time to set some rules for talking to extraterrestrials.
Manchin taking heat for what should be political normalcy
This is what normalcy is supposed to look like: two parties trying to figure out how to win over the center. And it’s long overdue.
Is this the beginning of the end of American democracy?
I’m afraid history will show that, in this shameful era, Republican senators were more united in their opposition to voting rights than Democratic senators were in their support for them.
Democrats complain about Joe Manchin, but they’re lucky to have him
He’s a challenge for Democratic leaders. But being in the minority is a bigger challenge.
Please let Biden endure until 2024
takeaway from watching Vice President Kamala Harris’ horrifying interview on NBC.
Schools let a yearlong crisis go to waste
Kids may learn exactly the wrong lesson about education from their schools’ failure to innovate during the pandemic.
The people we owe in Afghanistan
There’s still one thing the United States can do – and morally must do: Get the people who signed up to work, and fight, with us out of there.
Why the battle for gay marriage was won so easily
No one had to give anything up to allow same-sex marriage equality.
Where Black history is concerned, America specializes in not knowing
Even as we commemorate Tulsa, Republican-led states are rushing to pass laws restricting the teaching of this history.
Never let a plague go to waste
During America’s first-ever national lockdown, thousands of unelected bureaucrats, as well as federal and state governments, assumed enormous powers not usually accorded to them.
Populism is at the root of right wing’s conspiracy-mongering paranoia
The right changed with the times. Its problem now is that it rode the tiger so long, it doesn’t know how to get off — and it’s not even sure it wants to.
Republicans are passing laws to suppress the truth about slavery’s enduring legacy
Why not study it, teach it and confront it?
Goodbye to the year of living day by day. For better and worse, it’s time to plan again.
When the history of the pandemic is written, it will record that some people called it “a lost year.” But for those of us who are still here, the year itself was not lost. It was time passed in an extraordinary way, in a different rhythm.
Too many essential care workers can’t afford the very services they provide
When care workers struggle to support themselves, everyone is worse off.
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Anti-Trump sentiment fueled premature dismissal of Wuhan lab theory
A remarkable consensus has emerged in the last few weeks: It’s no longer crazy to think that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a “lab leak” in Wuhan, China.
The commission we really need
How about a commission to examine the source of the anger that produced the attack?
Five myths about qualified immunity
No, the doctrine doesn’t let officers off the hook, and getting rid of it won’t result in a flood of lawsuits.
The Wuhan story that finally has legs, now that Trump is gone
More facts come out daily about the origins of the pandemic that led to the deaths of 3.4 million people worldwide, including some 500,000 in the U.S. It is without doubt the most important story of our time. And part of the job of citizens, of journalists and responsible political leaders, is to question assumptions.
Will the madness of 2020 last?
By the end of the year, will the media-hungry Dr. Anthony Fauci still be a national icon, as the country finally adds up his contradictory communiqués that were constantly changing and often flat-out wrong?