Opinion: This planet’s on fire
Now that "flash droughts" are a global reality, can we please address our growing climate crisis?

Now that "flash droughts" are a global reality, can we please address our growing climate crisis?

I was just a kid when our family came to America from the British colony of Bermuda.

We're about to celebrate the official beginning of our nation.
Sitting on the porch recently, it was delightful to hear the neighborhood children playing together.
We're all horrified by the recent Buffalo mass murder by a white supremacist. Then it's ho-hum and onto the next devastating shooting (in this case, the devastating Texas elementary school shooting). These incidences have gone mainstream and are inching toward being completely normalized.
Writing about abortion is like leaping into a tornado, but here goes.
Are you questioning the Republican theory that the more guns out there, the safer we are? I sure am.
April 15 is universally disliked except maybe by the accounting firms that many of us pay to file our taxes.

Why do we now say Kyiv instead of Kiev? It's because Kyiv is the Ukrainian pronunciation, and Russia's invasion is a culture war.

In the days since Russia invaded Ukraine, we've tried to avoid World War III.
