Opinion

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Opinion: What’s wrong with a stable population?

Back in 1969, President Richard Nixon warned Congress against the rapid growth of the American population: “When future generations evaluate the record of our time, one of the most important factors in their judgment will be the way in which we responded to population growth.” If the ...

Opinion: The GOP now belongs to Trump

On Saturday, Trump took revenge on Louisiana senator Bill Cassidy for Cassidy’s vote five years ago to convict Trump, in his second impeachment, for instigating an attack on the U.S. Capitol. Cassidy thereby became the first GOP senator defeated by a Trump-endorsed candidate in a Republican ...

Letter to the editor: Now is the time for electric vehicles

To the editor: As communities across the country grapple with rising fuel costs, air pollution, and the growing impacts of global warming, one solution is becoming increasingly clear: the widespread adoption of electric vehicles. Electric cars offer a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to ...

Opinion: Booker and the predicament of the Voting Rights Act

I wish “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker had asked Sen. Cory Booker if he’s qualified to represent New Jersey given that nearly 9 out of 10 of his constituents are not Black. I should probably back up. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled in Callais vs. Louisiana that the state’s ...

Opinion: Family planning in an age of anxiety

“Why so few babies?” asked a New York Times essay that sounded oddly familiar to me. In my college days, it seemed that everybody was talking about “The Population Bomb,” the 1968 best-seller in which Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich predicted worldwide famines and other dire ...