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• DeSantis’ position on Ukraine shows lack of foreign policy chops

  By Mykola Murskyj

  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ proposed reorientation of U.S. foreign policy toward countering China shows a remarkable lack of leadership and should not overshadow the urgent need ...

• Cost of climate changing hits poor states hardest

  By LZ Granderson

  Between 2018 and 2022, many of the states with high rates of poverty — Oklahoma, New York — were also the states that suffered the most damage from extreme weather. A new climate study indicates things are going to get ...

• Voters should be celebrating Biden’s age

  By Robin Abcarian

  Last week, President Joe Biden celebrated his 81st birthday. He jocularly pardoned a couple of Thanksgiving turkeys on the White House lawn. Later, on Instagram ...

• NFL journalist who fabricated reports aided by white privilege

  By Leonard Greene

  On the heels of a glorious weekend of holiday football, it’s as good a time as any to tackle an NFL controversy that disappeared quicker than the New York Jets on third down. While most analysts and insiders ...

• Residents need protection, too

  By Annoula Wylderich, Las Vegas

  I understand the reasons prompting a ban to prevent chronic offenders from loitering on the Strip and nearby properties. I just don’t quite ...

• Infant mortality rate shows need to take better care of moms

  By Lisa Jarvis

  New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offer a horrible statistic: The infant death rate in the U.S. rose by 3% in 2022 to 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births, the first significant increase in about 20 years.

• Nonunion automakers matching UAW contract may be bad for union

  By Michael Hiltzik

  A funny thing happened in the wake of the United Auto Workers’ recent contract settlements with major auto companies.

• What this airline merger means for Nevada’s economy

  By Stavros Anthony

  Nevada’s tourism sector, a major economic engine within the state, has experienced significant and promising growth in the past year. In 2022, the Reno-Tahoe area saw 3.6 million visitors, a considerable improvement when compared with previous years.

• Bring back the expanded child tax credit, a lifeline for families

  By Kristine Anderson

  An expanded CTC could relieve a lot of stress in my family’s life. I get very frustrated when I hear that legislators are against the CTC because they think people will spend it on alcohol or drugs. My personal experience and that of so many other families shows otherwise.

• Infrastructure 2.0 has to be different

  By Sadek Wahba

  Nov. 15 marked two years since President Joe Biden signed the bipartisan infrastructure law — the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Today we can say confidently a few things about that.

• Las Vegan says world must not stay silent this time around

  By Brian Greenspun

  My name is Jerry Engel and I am a proud 93-year-old Jew who has lived in Las Vegas for 70 years (since 1953). Despite my age and Jewish identity, I am not a Holocaust survivor, and I am grateful that I have never experienced ...

• Send America’s floating hospitals to Gaza

  By James Stavridis

  The need is clear: Nearly 2 million Gazans, nearly half of them children, are in the middle of a war zone. Civilian casualties are mounting by the hour despite efforts of the Israel Defense Forces to minimize “collateral damage” as they undertake a justified series of counterattacks against the terrorists.

• Don’t keep quiet: Domestic violence is everyone’s business

  By LZ Granderson

  Domestic violence was a constant in my life growing up. Unfortunately, helpful conversations about it weren’t.

• Scorsese, Dylan and Biden, too, are doing some of their best work

  By Melinda Henneberger

  Thank goodness America did not get to decide that 80-year-old Martin Scorsese was too old to make the indelible “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which is both so beautiful and so discomfiting that it has been haunting me.

• Social media is addictive but that’s not a crime

  By Stephen Carter

  “Big Tech loses bid to toss lawsuits alleging social media platforms harmed children,” blared the New York Post. “Social media companies must face youth addiction lawsuits, US judge rules,” said Reuters. Such news coverage of last week’s order from Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers suggests that the tech companies mostly lost. But from where I sit, Silicon Valley mostly won.

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