2021—Carl Wayne Buntion gunned down a Houston police officer in 1990 and was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1991. Commenting on (but not...
The 340B drug discount program was intended to help low-income and uninsured patients afford medicine, not create lucrative revenue streams for hospital systems in wealthy communities. However, without oversight, that is what it has become. Congress should return the program to its intended purpose by requiring hospitals to show that the program reaches the vulnerable […]
I have spent much of my life around war. My first combat tour was in Vietnam in 1969-70, where I served as an infantry platoon commander and later a reconnaissance platoon commander. I returned during the 1972 Easter Offensive as an aerial observer and Vietnamese linguist. Later came the evacuation of Americans from Beirut in […]
ABC News Australia’s new documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Children, released this week, brought me to an image I couldn’t shake: a young child holding a rifle, smiling proudly. The image was jarring for another reason. I had seen it before. Not in Ukraine. In Gaza. The countries are different, the wars are different, and the actors […]
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants broke through Israel’s border and attacked communities in southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking roughly 250 hostages. Most of those killed were civilians. Yet the years since Oct. 7 have highlighted another phenomenon: celebrities increasingly inserting themselves into one of the world’s most complicated conflicts. The attack’s […]
Some of Richard Russo’s most memorable novels have depicted hard times in small towns. His 1986 debut, Mohawk, and 2007’s Bridge of Sighs both played out in fictional blue-collar backwaters in upstate New York, places where the leather industry had ground to a halt but citizens struggled on. For his career-defining, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Empire […]
On a quiet Thursday morning in suburban Detroit, 140 preschoolers were settling into their classrooms at Temple Israel’s early childhood center when a Ford F-150 pulled into the parking lot. For more than two hours, the truck sat there, idling. Then, at 12:15 p.m. on March 12, the driver — Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, a 41-year-old […]
