Editorials

Trump should support ‘chain migration’

Published on Mon, 08/20/2018 - 12:00am

Trump should support ‘chain migration,’ which his in-laws used to become citizens. In 2016 more than 2,800 people became naturalized citizens in Iowa, and many more are desperately needed to

GUEST EDITORIAL: A year after Charlottesville, the Alt-Right movement frays

Published on Fri, 08/17/2018 - 12:00am

Anyone who pays the slightest attention to the daily passage of events in the news was aware that white-supremacist alt-right groups were planning a rally in Washington, D.C., this past

GUEST EDITORIAL: We aren’t fake news; we are the people

Published on Thu, 08/16/2018 - 12:00am

We’ve been complacent. We thought everybody knew how important a free press was to our world and that all this talk about us being the enemy of the people would

GUEST EDITORIAL: Trump roars against Harley

Published on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:00am

If you listen to President Donald Trump, it sounds like there is one company in particular that is so anti-American, so far removed from the national mainstream that it deserves

Bumping into Republican cowardice on guns

Published on Wed, 08/15/2018 - 12:00am

One small island of sanity in the generally insane ocean of American gun culture is the near-complete federal ban on civilian possession of fully automatic weapons — machine guns. The

Pope takes unambiguous stand on capital punishment

Published on Fri, 08/10/2018 - 12:00am

Pope Francis’s condemnation of capital punishment is simple and unambiguous: It is inadmissible. No exceptions for especially heinous crimes; no loopholes allowing execution when other lives might be in jeopardy,

A critical development in ending Afghan conflict

Published on Thu, 08/09/2018 - 12:00am

The Trump administration has reportedly instructed its top diplomats to engage in direct talks with the Taliban. That’s a welcome and important step toward ending the wasteful war in Afghanistan.

GUEST EDITORIAL: Immigration in the context of the declining birth rates

Published on Wed, 08/08/2018 - 12:00am

Women in America are having so few babies that the birth rate has hit an historic low, and that does not bode well for the nation’s future. Fewer babies now

ENTERPRISE EDITORIAL: We have reached critical mass on the city pool

Published on Mon, 08/06/2018 - 12:00am

The time has come to build a new city pool. An Enterprise story last week laid out the woes besetting our current facility: • Its filtration system is out of

GUEST EDITORIAL: A promising development on Alzheimer’s

Published on Fri, 08/03/2018 - 12:00am

The news last week about a “promising” development in Alzheimer’s drug research was received by experts and patient advocates with cautious optimism, and the required skepticism. The last thing anyone