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The gun debate America needs to have
DONALD TRUMP appeared Friday before the National Rifle Association and promised to roll back gun restrictions if elected president. The next day, Hillary Clinton stood before a group of mothers who have lost children or other relatives to gun violence and vowed to fight for stricter gun control.
Can China lead the world on reducing the threat of nuclear war?
Tom Plate says while Obama's visit to Hiroshima is welcome, Xi Jinping has a real opportunity to steer the world away from the use of nuclear arms as a defence option Way back when, rather long ago, a youngish, greenish post-graduate student, obsessing about nuclear war, devoted his first book to it. "Doomsday," I declaimed in Understanding Doomsday: A Guide to the Arms Race for Hawks, Doves and People , "the moment when all the energies of all the nuclear bombs are released over the heads of the inhabitants of the earth.
Sweden to vote on closer NATO ties
Swedish lawmakers are set to vote on 25 May on a Host Nation Agreement with NATO that would represent a step toward further cooperation with the alliance for a nation that has resisted alignment with multilateral military bodies for over 200 years, write Olof Kronvall and Colin Cleary. Olof Kronvall is an expert on transatlantic and European security and teaches at Georgetown and George Washington universities.
How to make the US-Vietnam relationship great again
In Hanoi, US President Barack Obama will see a city that has undergone a transformation from bicycles and cyclos to one of scooters and taxis. But he will also see a country that hasn't transformed enough, stubbornly denying freedom of speech, as the arrests of blogger Nguyen Huu Vinh and his assistant Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy illustrate.
Column: The inaugural address we won’t hear, but should
The mere possibility of a Donald Trump presidency - gold-plated faucets in the house first occupied by John and Abigail Adams - will perhaps have a salutary effect. It might demystify an office that has become now swollen with inappropriate powers and swaddled in a pretentiousness discordant with a republic's ethic of simplicity.
Your Turn: May 23
Donald Trump arrives to see his daughter, Tiffany Trump, during the graduation ceremony at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. A reader wonders if supporters of the Republican presidential candidate would have attended another institution, Trump University, the subject of lawsuits filed by former students.
Sex assault numbers still too high
Despite reforms inspired in part by the Express-News 2013 series "Twice Betrayed," little progress has been made in reducing the number of military sexual assaults, according a new Pentagon report. Despite reforms inspired in part by the Express-News 2013 series "Twice Betrayed," little progress has been made in reducing the number of military sexual assaults, according a new Pentagon report.
Diplomatic outreach: Barack Obama to be first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan decried the totalitarian repression of the Soviet Union by calling it the “focus of evil in the modern world.” Yet in 1988 while visiting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia, Mr. Reagan felt the need to soft-pedal his rhetoric when asked by a reporter if he still considered the Soviet Union to be an “evil empire.” The president said he was referring to a “different era” when he used that term. Our elected leaders must sometimes walk diplomatic tightropes while traveling around the world.
Editorial, May 22, 2016: The Herald Recommends
In California's so-called “blanket” primary system, the top two vote-getters will face off in the November general election. Republicans are offering only token opposition, so we recommend the two leading Democratic candidates.
Hillary is not Bill’s enabler: Letters
This file photo combination shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on April 4, 2016, and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016. This file photo combination shows Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on April 4, 2016, and Republican challenger Donald Trump on February 16, 2016.
2015/16 MY – life-changing and key for Ukrainian soybean market – Sungrant Plus
According to Alexander Losychenko , Director General of Sungrant Plus, 2015/16 MY is rather complex for Ukrainian grain market and life-changing for soybean and by-products market. Ukrainian realias significantly influenced on agribusiness development.
Letter: Read the fine print on fraudulent voter guide
Butte County voters recently received a “voter guide” from the “California Republican Taxpayers' Association,” hoping to be passed off as an official candidate endorsement. Read the disclaimer and Google the organization.
Cynthia Tucker: Sanders increasingly appears petulant and shortsighted
When some of his supporters threw chairs at a convention of the Nevada State Democratic Party and threatened the life of Roberta Lange, the state party chairwoman, Sanders' response was to paint the Democratic establishment - the leaders of the party with which he has had a marriage of convenience for decades - as corrupt. He sounded more petulant than apologetic, more angry at his Democratic rival than alarmed at the actions of his supporters.
What would our grandparents think?
Please join me on a whirlwind tour around the zany world of modern leftism. Many stops are available, so the following ones were just the first ones I saw.
Ruth: The R-rated general election campaign
At the rate the presidential campaign is quickly turning into Dr. Ruth meets "Last Tango in Palm Beach," this may mark the first time in history the general election debates will need a seven-second delay to guard against a candidate going all Porky's on everyone. Over the past week, we've gotten a very ugly, salacious taste of what to expect as the presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominees make their case for why one of them should become the leader of the free world.
Column: Donald, Hillary and the Bernie factor
Among the abundant ironies of this election cycle, there is this: We are now in the eighth year of the most liberal administration since Lyndon Johnson's. The primary elections reveal a national mood of anxiety, apprehension and anger, in turn reflecting stagnation at home and failure abroad.
World not safer with the US as its policeman
When Elizabeth Trudeau, director of the US State Department Press Office, read a statement on Tuesday about a US Navy surface ship "exercising the right of innocent passage" while transiting near China's Yongshu Reef that day, she said it was to uphold the rights and freedoms of all states under international law and to challenge the excessive maritime claims of some claimants in the South China Sea. She was soon challenged by an Associated Press reporter about who determines what constitutes an excessive maritime claim.
Hiroshima With or Without Remorse?
The announcement that US President Barack Obama's visit to Japan later this month will include a stop in Hiroshima is welcome news. Of course, Obama will not apologize for America's 1945 nuclear attack, which annihilated the city and instantly killed about 90,000 people .