What We Learned From Kamala Harris’ Medical Report—and Why It’s Significant
T he White House Military Office released Vice President Kamala Harris’ medical report on Oct. 12, sharing that Harris ...
Heavy Israeli Bombardment in Northern Gaza as U.N. Peacekeepers in Lebanon Are Hit Again
BEIRUT — Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at ...
Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, Who Sought Scotland’s Independence, Dies at 69
Salmond, as then leader of the Scottish National Party, led the independence campaign in the referendum in 2014.
My Year Under Fire as a Peace Activist in Gaza
It started last October when an Israeli missile killed seven relatives, including my son, and wounded 10 of us, writes Ahmed ...
Should California’s Minimum Wage be $18? Voters Will Soon Decide
California's ballot measure, Proposition 32, would raise the state’s current minimum wage of $16 to $17 for the remainder of ...
Mark Farrell
Mark Farrell is running for Mayor of San Francisco. He served as the city’s 44 th mayor in 2018 and on the city’s Board ...
The Satellites: Edge of Panic
As Russia exploded nuclear bombs with daily regularity, the satellites were plainly more frightened than the West, and Red leaders made calming speeches to avert rising war fears. A grisly joke ...
Dominican Republic: To See & to Be Seen
Aboard a U.S. Air Force Constellation, a four-nation* OAS inspection team flew from Washington to the Dominican Republic last week to decide whether the diplomatic and economic sanctions leveled ...
Science: Save Those Pine Seeds!
The visiting scientists made their reports in the dry, deadpan language of the laboratory. They seemed to be recording just one more set of facts and figures on the biological effects of ...