Opinion
China is using fentanyl in a chemical war against America
Fentanyl is the synthetic opioid driving America’s public health crisis. Its cheap price, widespread use, addictive quality and deadly effect m...
Selective outrage about Kevin Spacey
I first saw Kevin Spacey in an old crime series called “Wiseguy.” It was about three decades ago, and he played a character who had bibli...
What are you in jail for? I rented a couch
A payment dispute over a sofa and a television should never become a life-altering felony and jail time. And police have more important work to do tha...
Thoughts and prayers’ are not enough
It’s been one endless, exhausting “thoughts and prayers” season — a mass shooting, coast-to-coast disasters, loss of lives and...
Why is our child poverty rate so high?
Articles about America’s high levels of child poverty are a media evergreen. Here’s a typical entry, courtesy of the New York Times’...
Trump Jr. is right about free speech on campus
We on the Star-Telegram Editorial Board don’t often find ourselves in the position of defending a member of the First Family, but on his recent ...
Weinstein sex accusations show the power of social media and the limits of shame in our celebrity-driven world
Note to men with unseemly, to say nothing of perverse, intentions: There are no more hiding places.Twitter, Facebook and other social media outlets a...
Sugar, carbs and cancer links
In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linke...
Another magic bullet
It has been known that there is a protein that floats in the blood called growth and differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) that seems to regulate body wei...
Why it’s time to lay the stereotype of the ‘teen brain’ to rest
A deficit in the development of the teenage brain has been blamed for teens’ behavior in recent years, but it may be time to lay the stereotype ...
