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- OpinionYahoo News
Column: Jimmy Carter was an underrated president
The easy shorthand about Jimmy Carter — lousy president, outstanding former president — is misleading.
- OpinionYahoo News
When schools are scared of Dr. Seuss, we've gone too far on race
We’re all accustomed to “woke” vs. “anti-woke” bickering. In schools, the ferocity of the debate is chilling speech, and teachers are missing out on a chance to educate kids because they are afraid of attracting criticism.
- PoliticsYahoo News
My Ken Starr moment
It was Thursday, Jan. 15, 1998, and I was feverishly trying to nail down what I expected would be the biggest political scoop in Washington in years. I had learned that independent counsel Ken Starr had launched a secret investigation into President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
- PoliticsYahoo News
3 things everyone should know about the Inflation Reduction Act
President Biden writes about the Inflation Reduction Act, which he signed Tuesday. He describes it as “one of the most significant laws in recent history.”
- WorldYahoo News
Opinion: Roe leak underscores this Supreme Court's history of hypocrisy
If the justices overturn Roe, the decision will be the most radical product of constitutional law in a hundred years. The court’s resulting loss of legitimacy will be a catastrophe — far more than whatever harm the leak caused.
- U.S.Yahoo News
Don't turn your back on San Francisco's homelessness and drug problems
Given the grim reality of the homelessness crisis in cities like San Francisco, it can be easy to blame those at the bottom for their own bad choices. But a superior attitude isn’t going to solve the problem.
- U.S.Yahoo News
U.S. mask mandates are making a comeback. But should they?
U.S. COVID cases are rising once again — and, as ever, Americans are arguing about masks. But what if the mask debate is a waste of time at this point in the pandemic?
- U.S.Yahoo News
How Los Angeles became the national leader for keeping schools open
If you’re the kind of parent who cares about sending your kids to school in person, there was no worse place to be last school year than Los Angeles. And there’s probably no better place to be today.
- PoliticsYahoo News
Hillary Clinton's novel about the dangers Trump unleashed isn't all fiction
A first-time novelist, Hillary Clinton described “State of Terror” as “a kind of reflection on the trend lines,” which she made clear weren’t headed anywhere good.
- PoliticsYahoo News
Why the politicization of COVID is a bad sign for climate change
By the time Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, posted a tweet on Sept. 7 declaring that “Real America is done with #COVID19,” the pandemic, and how one responded to it, had already metastasized into a political litmus test.
- U.S.Yahoo News
20 years later, a transformed Justice Department is still fighting — and preventing — terrorism
After 9/11, the Justice Department made a commitment that America would never again face a terror attack of such immeasurable scope, and that we would seek justice for the victims and their families. And for the past two decades, that is exactly what we have done.
- U.S.Yahoo News
Remembering to remember the World Trade Center
Many of the long-term repercussions of 9/11 are still with us today — from the wars, government departments and the surveillance state that were started because of it, to the hastily discarded judicial norms and civil liberties. It’s not an exaggeration to say the attack transformed the world, but the physical destruction of the buildings — because of the enormity of the event — demanded to be continually replayed.
- HealthYahoo News
Why experts say even vaccinated people need to mask up during a Delta surge
As the Delta variant pushes COVID-19 infection rates higher across the country, experts say this is the wrong time to discourage universal masking.
- WorldYahoo News
As the U.K.'s COVID lockdowns are set to end, one resident sees complications ahead
According to Francis Whittaker, the coming arrival of what the tabloid press has dubbed “Freedom Day” in England feels anything but freeing.
- U.S.Yahoo News
Biden: Americans can be proud of the infrastructure deal
"I have always believed that there is nothing our nation can’t do when we decide to do it together," writes President Biden of the bipartisan agreement to move forward on key portions of his infrastructure plan.
