This once-in-a-generation legislation would bring down the costs of things families depend on — like health care, prescription drugs, paid leave and child care — create millions of good-paying jobs, tackle the climate crisis, invest in a just and humane immigration system, rebuild our care economy, and open the doors to educational opportunity with universal preschool and grants for low-income students and students of color.

As Time magazine recently reported, librarians are seeing a definite spike in censorship activity. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, executive director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, called it “an unprecedented volume of challenges.” From Texas to South Carolina, to Virginia to Florida and beyond, conservative governors and advocacy groups are removing books from school library shelves, particularly those that deal with the two subjects they find most threatening: sexuality and race.

At this stage of the pandemic, lots of us are thinking wishfully. And lots of us are acting on that thinking by moving out of COVID’s path.

The International Olympic Committee has doggedly defended Beijing as the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, even as the Chinese Communist Party pursues its campaign of unrelenting barbarity against the Uyghurs.

Between now and next November, he faces a primary in a Republican Party that has gone haywire. Former President Donald Trump has vowed to take down Baker. (He’s already endorsed former state Rep. Geoff Diehl, the only well-known Republican running in the party’s primary.) Baker evidently doesn’t want to play in the nasty clown show sure to follow.

Russia’s early December troop movements along its Ukraine border and China’s fall 2021 aerial and naval penetrations of Taiwanese territory are well-publicized displays of massed conventional armed forces poised to enter another nation’s sovereign territory and wage war.

The central focus of the Michigan horror has rightly moved from a mentally ill high schooler to his socially deviant parents. Which leads to these two questions:

Aren’t parents who keep loaded weapons in a home shared by a disturbed child with violent obsessions themselves mentally twisted? And what could be done about them?

As has been the case with so many other school shootings over several years, last week’s murder spree at Oxford High School in suburban Detroit might have been avoided if actions had been taken in the face of several obvious warning signs.

We will find the path to restoring America’s strength on neither the right nor the left, but upward, by embracing the tenets that built our republic rather than the sound bites that are tearing it apart.