OPINION | Immigration An Easy Way to Take Pressure Off the Immigration System There’s a group of applicants — parents and grandparents — who are contributing to our visa backlog but shouldn’t be. Here’s how to fix it.
OPINION | coronavirus Why Pell Grants Can Help Fight the Pandemic Higher education is a key tool for improving safety in prisons, and that’s more important now than ever.
OPINION | health care How Joe Biden Can Use the Political Power of Obamacare to Expand It Once politically vulnerable, the ACA has joined Social Security and Medicare in the pantheon of American entitlements. Here’s how the president-elect can use that as leverage, and what he could fix.
OPINION | Mental Health How to Prepare for the Coming Mental Health Pandemic The psychological damage from disasters like Covid-19 can last for years. Here’s what we should do now — including create a national, 3-digit suicide hotline.
OPINION | sustainability Could Fracking Actually Help the Climate? Biden and Harris are right to be skeptical of calls to ban hydraulic fracturing, and the science on climate change backs them up.
OPINION | Sustainability The Trump Administration’s Bad Deal for Public Lands Oil and gas prices are at record lows, so why is the Interior Department selling drilling leases as fast as it can?
criminal justice Making a Phone Call from Behind Bars Shouldn’t Send Your Family into Debt Covid-19 has forced lawmakers to take a harder look at the prison telecom industry. It’s long been due for a makeover.