Your Views for November 24
Safe Travels frustrating
Trump’s Afghan troop withdrawal puts Biden in a jam
As President Donald Trump tries to end America’s longest war, he has settled on a compromise. Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Christmas, as he boasted in a tweet in October, he will be leaving behind a small counterterrorism force.
A milestone for 737 MAX, but Boeing has more to do
Federal approval for Boeing’s 737 MAX to resume service is an enormous milestone for the company, its workers and Washington’s aerospace industry.
Your Views for November 22
Buyer beware
Lame-duck White House must help control COVID surge
Just days before Thanksgiving, COVID-19 is once again surging out of control.
Cartoon for November 21
The world as seen by cartoonist Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune.
Bending the hate curve: What Biden must do as president and president-elect
Confirming with statistics what too many Americans have seen with their own eyes, the FBI Monday reported that in 2019, hate-motivated crimes rose to their highest level in more than a decade, and hate-motivated homicides hit an all-time high.
Trump’s election fraud allegations are absurd. Republican voters are buying them anyway
Biden should reboot transatlantic ties
China and 14 other Asian-Pacific nations have signed a massive free trade agreement — the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. The pact covers about 2.2 billion people in the 10 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, as well as U.S. allies Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea.
Cartoon for November 20
The world as seen by cartoonist Ken Catalino, Creators.com.
Thank you, election workers
If you think it was stressful waiting for election boards around the country to count the millions of votes in the presidential election, imagine being the workers who were doing the counting.
Biden’s COVID challenge: Defeat the virus while lifting up all Americans
Your Views for November 20
Service lacking
Kim Ng smashes a glass ceiling in baseball
Baseball is a game of milestones.
Rediscovering America: A Thanksgiving quiz
Cartoon for November 19
The world as seen by cartoonist Chris Britt, Creators.com.
Under Joe Biden, Democrats must find a way to be a pragmatic, big-tent party
In the fall elections, Democrats won the headliner but lost many undercards. With sizable gains in state legislatures and U.S. Congress, Republicans are poised to control redistricting based on the 2020 Census and potentially take back the House in 2022.
Cartoon for November 18
The world as seen by cartoonist Chris Britt, Creators.com.
America’s voting system is underperforming
The administration of the 2020 election wasn’t the calamity some feared.
