Editorials

Our president, Donald Trump, is a clown who makes a great reality-show villain but is uniquely toolless as the leader of a superpower nation. Watching him try to think through two society-imperiling crises is like waiting for a gerbil to solve Fermat’s theorem. Calls to “dominate” marchers and ad-l…

People wear face masks. Many carry gloves, hand sanitizer and antibacterial spray or wipes. We wash our hands constantly. These are the new norms. When the coronavirus pandemic first hit, the CNMI watched from afar. As it traveled to other countries, each community coped with it in different ways. …

That’s not a police brutality problem, that’s a problem of insufficient police power being deployed to stop violent criminals. If the death of one man, George Floyd, while under arrest in Minneapolis is cause for nationwide protests, why don’t the deaths of hundreds of George Floyds every year pric…

God condemns you to a life of poverty but will permit you to choose the country in which you will spend your life. Which country would you choose? I would choose the United States of America. A recent study by Just Facts, an excellent source of factual information, shows that after accounting for i…

On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “in…

School’s out forever? A lot of parents are figuring out that remote learning, forced on us by school closings, is mostly the same old, same old — teachers droning on to students, except online. Not much has changed in education since the Little Rascals’ Miss Crabtree’s one-room class in 1930. And i…

A letter by Ms. Lorenza Aldan was posted on social media and in local newspapers on the issue of how no female athlete was painted on the mural.  I understand she voiced very reasonable concerns, especially on the significance women have in local culture, and she was definitely not wrong with the w…

I think that while the new Ada Gym mural is beautiful and the quality of the artwork matches the talent and professionalism the artists had to complete the design, a mural that is inclusive of both male and female sexes is a more accurate representation of our community and sends a positive message…

The war over corona may have been won here, but with a host of competing theories and interested parties hoping to claim credit, the battle to decide how it happened is just beginning. Japan’s official death toll from Covid-19 has not yet reached 1,000. This is in a country of 126 million people wi…

I get social anxiety when a non- disabled person misinterprets my condition or when establishments are inaccessible with no accommodations. For some individuals with a physical or mental disability, just getting to work is a challenge. It has been a revolutionary 30 years since the ADA was passed, …