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A close up of a packet of birth control pills (Getty Images).

Over-the-counter birth control would be a game changer | Opinion

BY: - July 18, 2023

By Sonali Kolhatkar A federal advisory committee has unanimously recommended that the Food and Drug Administration allow the sale of Opill, an over-the-counter birth control pill. Coming amid a widespread assault on reproductive health care, this could be a game-changer. Margery Gass, an advisory committee member and an emerita professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati, told The Washington […]

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What white people get wrong about Black dads | Opinion

BY: - January 6, 2023

The Black men I saw growing up had only ever worked toward one goal with their children: To give them a better life than they had.

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MAGA politics seems to be losing some of its shine | Opinion

BY: - October 6, 2022

It should come as no surprise that if you put 'anti-government' candidates in office, they’re going to run government so poorly that citizens are dissatisfied.

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Steve Bannon, former advisor to former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media after his arrangement in New York StateSupreme Court on September 08, 2022 in New York City. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an indictment of Bannon charging him with money laundering and conspiracy in connection with the “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme, for which the entity is also facing charges. The state chargers are based on the same federal charges for which Bannon was pardoned by former President Donald Trump. He and others have been alleged to have defrauded contributors to a private $25 million fundraising effort to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border according. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

With Bannon’s latest legal troubles, it’s another Trumpster in the Dumpster | Opinion

BY: - September 18, 2022

If one gets the feeling that the walls are closing in on Trump and his bandits, there are plenty of good reasons for that assumption.

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We don’t want to admit the real worker shortage problem | Opinion

BY: - February 25, 2022

Of all the things COVID-19 has taken from us, one of the most profound has been the change in workforce

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Burn this commentary | Opinion

BY: - January 6, 2022

If you’re a believer in the power of books, please join me against those who would have it destroyed.

Filibusted: Experts say the time has come to end Senate practice

BY: - June 3, 2021

Even the stuffy, florid name of the procedure, “filibuster” sounds like something conceived around a table of wig-wearing Founding Fathers.