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This editorial was published by the Dallas Morning News. As the murdered children of Uvalde are laid to rest this week, our nation needs to muster the courage and political will to treat rising gun violence and mass shootings as an acute public health crisis. When auto accidents claimed a large number of lives, government …

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is widely reported to have told his Democratic colleagues on Saturday that “nothing is off the table for next year” if Republicans confirm a Supreme Court nominee in this Congress. He means this as a threat that Democrats will break the filibuster and pack the Court with more Justices in …

As Montanans cope with the accelerating threat of the coronavirus, a great many are at risk of losing their health coverage at this worst possible time. That’s unforgivable. This is no time to be cutting health care for anyone. Virus-related job losses have caused the first Medicaid expansion enrollment increase in more than a year. …

The once-a-decade collection of information about Americans may well go down in history as the first digital Census. Let us hope it also is not recorded as an electronic fiasco. Officials at the U.S. Census Bureau will be utilizing tons of state-of-the-art technology in gathering information this year. For starters, this will be …

Nati Harnik | AP   Want to make people more uneasy about the integrity of elections in this country? Turns out, there’s an app for that. The chaos of the Iowa Democratic Caucus reinforces at least two facts about election security: new technology isn’t always a good thing, and poor communication from election administrators is …

Editor’s note: This Future View is about the baby boomers—who they are, and what stereotypes about them capture and leave out. Next week we’ll ask, “The 2010s are almost over. What defined the decade for you? For society as a whole?” Students should click here to submit opinions of fewer than 250 words before Jan. …

Well, someone had to say it. Someone, who was once close and friendly towards Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, that is. Someone who knew them as well as most, and could judge their character at close quarters. And so David Cameron has at last delivered his devastating verdict on the leaders of the Leave campaign. …

The following editorial originally appeared in The Columbian of Vancouver. “It’s health care, stupid.” Adapting the 1992 mantra of then-candidate Bill Clinton — “it’s the economy, stupid” — would be a wise strategy for 2020 candidates from both political parties. Polls have consistently suggested that health care is a primary concern for voters, and the …