Opinion

By passing REPAIR Act, Congress can stand with fixers and farmers

At a time when American families are struggling under the weight of stubbornly high grocery prices and economic turmoil and uncertainty, our lawmakers have a ...

US risks missing the train to a shared global future

High tech, which was our strong suit, now goes both ways. We may no longer be the leader. And today, we need to grow labor ...

Elected Republicans must pay the price for Trump’s economic vandalism

President Donald Trump promised to make America great again. But his sweeping and reckless imposition of tariffs is already dragging the country toward disaster.

Seniors, rural Americans would bear brunt of DOGE’s SSA cuts

By pushing for such sweeping changes to go into effect so quickly, Trump is demonstrating a base contempt for retirees and other people who rely ...

President decries violence from political enemies while encouraging it of his allies

We live in an era when one political movement, led by President Donald Trump and enabled by a Republican Party willing to ...

House GOP trying to use election security to mask voter suppression

Voting is a fundamental right of every American citizen. Yet House Resolution 22, the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which is being pushed ...

Time for wealthy corporations to carry own weight in Nevada

When a trillion-dollar corporation like Tesla manages to pay just 0.4% in federal taxes over three years — 50 times less than the federal corporate ...

Regents’ actions shake stability of UNLV

Failure should not be the low bar by which we continue to judge our success ...

Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico are just a presidential power grab

During his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Donald Trump falsely linked tariffs against Canada and Mexico to ...

A welcome development: Lombardo breaks with party on health care

No matter how many times Speaker Mike Johnson claims otherwise, this is not about eliminating waste, fraud or abuse. It is a deliberate attack on ...

Lord, hear our prayers — for Pope Francis

The leader of the Catholic Church, 88-year old Pope Francis, has been ill and in hospital suffering from double pneumonia. As of this writing, he ...

Trump’s funding freeze puts Western states at risk of drying up

The Colorado River is drying up, and now, thanks to President Donald Trump’s unprecedented freeze on federal funding, efforts to save it are drying up ...

Republicans’ budget puts Americans of all political stripes in crosshairs

The latest Republican budget resolution proposes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, with $2 trillion carved out of “mandatory spending” — a euphemism for gutting Medicaid, ...

Americans of all political stripes must speak up to protect public lands

America’s public lands are not up for sale. They are our birthright. And we must fight to protect them — now, and always.

Trump’s hot mess puts our national security at risk

It may seem foreign today, but when I was a kid the CIA was respected by all, revered by many, feared by our enemies and ...

Trump’s effort to control information endangers nation’s standing globally

The United States has long boasted of our position as the world’s most powerful and advanced economy and a global leader in science, technology, health ...

Trump’s trade brinksmanship puts Las Vegas’ tourist economy at risk

President Donald Trump’s latest move to impose tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods risks shaking the very foundation of our city’s prosperity: tourism ...

Trump and billionaires’ leadership endangers critical federal services

To be sure, Silicon Valley is filled with intensely creative, productive and responsible people too. But it’s the others, the ones who giggle over dinner ...