Columns

EDITORIAL: Revised GOP health care proposal fails to provide adequate health care

By Editorial Board · Sunday, July 16,2017 9:16 p.m.

The recent revision to the Better Care Reconciliation Act exacerbates the problems of higher premiums for the sickest individuals and denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.

COLUMN: Sexual violence prevention policies need better enforcement on campus

By Julia Bourkland · Wednesday, July 12,2017 7:54 p.m.

Sex-discrimination legislation must be enthusiastically adopted by universities to ensure a fair environment for students and to protect the livelihood of women on campus.

COLUMN: The Left doesn’t appreciate labor enough

By Richard Solomon · Wednesday, July 12,2017 7:53 p.m.

Leftists in my generation appear more absorbed by the struggles of oppressed minorities than the stagnation of the white majority.

EDITORIAL: Labor unions must adapt to the modern world

By Editorial Board · Wednesday, July 12,2017 7:53 p.m.

The only way for unions to succeed in our globalized world is to embrace the future.

COLUMN: Voluntourism harms developing nations

By Neeta Patwari · Sunday, July 9,2017 10:16 p.m.

Voluntourism prevents countries from addressing long-term problems because they focus solely on short-term solutions.

COLUMN: The socioeconomic benefits of abortion

By Therin Showalter · Sunday, July 9,2017 10:15 p.m.

Access to abortion promotes our nation's well-being by almost every metric of public life.

EDITORIAL: The United States is culpable for war crimes in Yemen

By Editorial Board · Sunday, July 9,2017 10:15 p.m.

The United States must face its responsibility for aiding the ongoing conflict in Yemen and abetting the torture of its enemies.

COLUMN: Real patriotism is a love for everyone

By Richard Solomon · Friday, July 7,2017 6:08 p.m.

Love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

EDITORIAL: Chicago shouldn’t require plan to graduate

By Editorial Board · Friday, July 7,2017 6:06 p.m.

Chicago's proposal to require a "post-graduation plan" in order to graduate puts an unfair burden on low-income students.

EDITORIAL: The new NRA ad deepens America’s cultural divide

By Editorial Board · Monday, July 3,2017 9:59 a.m.

The newest NRA ad continues to deepen America’s social and cultural divisions, displays an astonishing amount of hypocrisy and, for some, may even inspire them to violence.

COLUMN: Glorifying pale skin harms young girls

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, July 3,2017 8:24 a.m.

Glorifying pale skin is pointless, harmful and hurts young girl’s self-esteem—and it needs to be stopped.

COLUMN: Repealing Obamacare shouldn’t mean cutting Medicaid

By Therin Showalter · Monday, July 3,2017 8:24 a.m.

If not for people’s general well-being, Republicans must consider the exposure of hospitals to the risk of closing and the cost to the State and its residents should Medicaid be cut.

COLUMN: Jeff Sessions' war on drugs would continue a failed approach

By Richard Solomon · Wednesday, June 28,2017 8:53 p.m.

We need a drug policy that reduces dependency, violent crime and minimizes risks to public health, but what Jeff Sessions wants isn't it.

COLUMN: Planned Parenthood care lowers unplanned pregnancies and abortion rate

By Julia Bourkland · Wednesday, June 28,2017 8:53 p.m.

Widespread access to preventative care and abortion services has been empirically proven to lower the rate of unplanned pregnancies and abortions over time.