Opinions

President Biden’s recently released 2023 budget plan is projected to reduce the federal deficit by around $1 trillion over the next 10 years, but several of the pay-fors, including the so-called billionaire tax, remain controversial and are unlikely to garner the broad congressional support... Read More

Imagine a simple blood test that could screen for over 50 types of cancers. This sounds like science fiction. Yet, this breakthrough innovation is on the horizon due to the research and development at Grail, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company... Read More

The agricultural sector has been facing an accelerated transformation over the past years, rapidly enhancing the multitude of options for growing successful crops. Americans are some of the most consistent users of agricultural pesticides in the world. However, the most... Read More

A rebuttal to a Washington Post op-ed on wartime nuclear power plant safety. On March 18, the day after I rebutted hyped media coverage of impending atomic catastrophe in Ukraine, yet another alarmist article surfaced in The Washington Post. Kate... Read More

From the time of the United States' founding, the principle of “equal justice under the law” has been the quintessential tenet of American democracy. The words are engraved above the entrance of the U.S. Supreme Court as a reminder to... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged the development of lifesaving vaccines at record-breaking speed, but COVID’s relentless death toll has reinforced life’s fragility and the limits of modern medicine to eliminate suffering at life’s end. At the same time, we are seeing... Read More

Democratic California State Sen. Monique Limón recently introduced the California Community Reinvestment Act, SB 1176, a bill that aims to increase lending to communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities. This is a laudable goal, as for years discrimination... Read More

It is no secret that people around the world are facing unprecedented challenges. And with each global news event, division and disinformation are amplified, risking pushing us further apart from one another. Challenges, however, provide opportunities, and today we have... Read More

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad. It’s bad for a multiplicity of reasons. Not least among them, as Western media has recently caught on, are the global impacts that a Russian war in Ukraine has on wheat, corn, and... Read More

Half of Florida’s violent crimes go unsolved. When serious property offenses are added, the overall crime “clearance rate” plummets to 25%. Sadly, Florida is typical, according to FBI statistics. In 2020, investigators cleared barely half the nation’s murders. In Georgia,... Read More

Georgia has been named the top state for doing business for eight years in a row. As a business leader, I’m proud of the state’s commitment to economic growth and development. But as a community member and leader, I am... Read More

As the impact of the omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to wane, the U.S. is entering the third year of the pandemic and its disruptions are a fact of life in the fabric of our daily lives. The trouble is,... Read More

I love the Olympics, but the 2022 games reinforced how unsafe the system is for young athletes. During the 2022 Games, we witnessed several new and shocking accounts of abuse that current athletes had endured prior to and during the... Read More

The COVID-19 pandemic is our greatest test to find solutions to reshape education, accelerate workforce development and reimagine the future of work. Currently, our education models are based on the technology of the 15th century printing press and Eurocentric ideology... Read More

My small biopharma company is developing a drug to treat a rare, fatal and presently incurable disease that afflicts one in 70,000 children. We are working around-the-clock to test our medicine and get it approved by the Food and Drug... Read More

On March 1, President Joe Biden will deliver the first State of the Union address of his presidency. After one year in office, the speech will come as his administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill debate key questions over how our economy... Read More

Workplace misconduct often takes place behind closed doors in secret. Or in some cases, in text messages and emails. Take the case of former Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden, who was revealed to have shared misogynistic, homophobic and... Read More

With Democrats’ hopes of passing the Build Back Better bill fading, environmental activists’ dreams of immediate climate action are dwindling as well. Many are lamenting this missed opportunity to tackle the climate crisis — and rightfully so. But it’s important... Read More

Politics in America feels more divisive than ever. These political divisions even impact our schools, where some politicians think traditional schooling is good, while others think nontraditional schooling is bad. At our schools, we’ve learned to think deeply beyond simple... Read More

A little grace please, a few moments to thoughtfully consider Clarence Thomas. It’s understandable if that ask revolts. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gets little love. Mostly, the disdain is earned. He’s burnished his image as a calcitrant man who rose to the... Read More

Last month, Twitter banned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. In a statement posted on GETTR, Greene called on conservatives to "leave Twitter now." At a time when many Republicans are decrying the "monopoly" power of... Read More

Interest in antitrust enforcement has gained considerable steam in recent years, primarily driven by the rise of enormous tech-centric companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook. President Biden’s appointment of aggressive enforcers like Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission and Jonathan... Read More

We don’t even know the woman’s name yet. In fact, we don’t know much of anything about her except that she is Black. That’s not a lot, but it’s more than enough for some people. Ever since last week, when... Read More

The crux of America’s looming educational crisis is obvious and it has nothing to do with the books in the curriculum. The lesson is deep into the much-maligned transcript of a Tennessee school board’s discussion before unanimously voting to nix the Pulitzer... Read More

There is an ancient African American proverb that we’re all familiar with from t-shirts to internet memes: “We tried to tell y’all.” Of course, it gives our ancestors heartburn whenever it’s repeated because, while we learned the proverb, we didn’t... Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month authorized the marketing of two combusted, filtered cigarettes as modified risk tobacco products. The products, 22nd Century Group Inc.’s “VLN (Very Low Nicotine) King” and “VLN Menthol King,” which produce all of the smoke... Read More

I consider myself forewarned. Nearly a year ago, a trusted source predicted that COVID-19 would have lasting repercussions on the world’s children. An educator, he spoke about how the impact would be felt not only on attendance but what that... Read More

Whether it’s transmission lines going up in flames during California wildfires or the statewide power outages that plagued the state of Texas during its unprecedented winter storm, there is no doubt the U.S. energy grid needs an upgrade. An outdated... Read More

The Kansas City School District is now fully accredited by the state, the first time since 2000. It’s been a long arduous journey and officials concede that the hill is barely crested. On the day the announcement was made, the district’s... Read More

One of the biggest challenges facing agriculture in the U.S. and around the world is how to make farming more efficient and limit greenhouse gas emissions in the process. Among the most promising tools for doing so are CRISPR and... Read More