This is a different kind of editorial. Rather than address a specific issue or occurrence, today we feel the need to state an underlying philosophy. It’s meant to cover a lot of ground. Feel free to apply it to anything from national politics to interpersonal quibbles. If there is one ...

This week’s Straw Poll: Do you plan to vote by absentee ballot in national and/or local elections this fall? - This poll is not scientific, and its results represent only the opinions of Internet users who have chosen to participate.

Rationing of medical treatment is viewed by many Americans as unacceptable. Making health care decisions based on anything but need is seen as immoral. That is as it should be. But as researchers race to develop vaccines against COVID-19, the specter of rationing is being raised by ...

A century from now, how many Americans will even know about the Bataan Death March? Will those who read about it believe anyone could be so cruel to other human beings? Will the skeptical conclude the accounts are myths, horror stories that could never have happened? Ed Jackfert knew ...

Giving Americans a month less to respond to the 2020 Census may be the most ridiculous proposal to come out of Washington this year. The idea should be discarded. Original plans for the Census called for an Oct. 31 deadline for people to respond to it with information about themselves and ...

Virtually every passing day demonstrates to us that we don’t know enough about COVID-19 to combat the virus effectively. Research on it — and on identifying other emerging disease threats — needs to be a higher priority. At the very top of the action list should be how the coronavirus ...