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Edward Snowden told the Guardian that he leaked details of National Security Agency surveillance because he doesn’t “want to live in a world where there’s no privacy.”
The deck is always stacked when we debate keeping the nation safe.
You might not love Big Brother. But you must know he’s part of your family.
Sixty percent of kids in Richmond, Va., are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond.
The Pew Research Center reports that mom is the top breadwinner — or the sole breadwinner — in 40 percent of homes with children under 18, and we are talking, again, about how we balance our work and our families.
I’ll be celebrated this coming Sunday like millions of other dads on our officially designated “Father’s Day,” but I prefer to celebrate my four other father’s days.
Since President Richard Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972, American presidents have hoped that building personal rapport with Chinese leaders would strengthen bilateral ties and win political points at home.
What if someone gave an immigration “crisis” and no one came?
Afghanistan’s iniquities are grotesque.
Washington, D.C. (Saltsman is research director for the Employment Policies Institute, a business-funded lobbying organization.)
Re: “Group seeks sick leave for all who work in Tacoma” (TNT, 5-30).
Tacoma
Re: “A new place to care for the premature” (TNT, 6-5).
Steilacoom
I am surely not the only one fatigued by the interminable letters about guns, each side talking past and ignoring the arguments of the other.
First lady Michelle Obama wasn’t having it — and I don’t blame her. Lesbian activist Ellen Sturtz wasn’t having it — and, well, I don’t blame her, either.
You see glistening mermaid sightings on Animal Planet more than you catch glimpses of vintage John McCain on Capitol Hill.
I hope President Barack Barack Obama appreciates the grand bargain he’s getting from African Americans: unwavering support, stratospheric approval rating, muted exasperation when he disappoints, vociferous defense when he’s under attack.



