Editorials

Chaos and disorder are a threat to everyone, including those sowing chaos and disorder.

It’s impossible to reason with members of a mob, particularly one bent on thievery and destruction.

Fortunately, they constitute a relatively small part of our society. So it’s incumbent upon the rest of us to keep in perspective what happened in Minneapolis last week and what’s being done about what happened. That doesn’t mean to accept it without reservation, but to keep understandable anger in check.

Blast off! NASA has returned to the rocket-launching business, and with a welcome twist.

The nation that first sent humans to the Moon just launched two more into the sky, a final and high-stakes test of a new approach by NASA to manned space flight that, if successful, could change nearly everything about the way America engages with space.

We are reading about the teams of researchers around the world — the most brilliant of the brilliant — working together, partnering with drug companies, on a mission to create vaccines more quickly than ever before. There is unity of purpose. And while the politicians may think of it as a competition, the scientists quoted uniformly praise one another’s efforts. To produce enough of a vaccine, we will need more than one success. 

In World War II, we made the trade of human lives. Everyone knew the fatalities would be catastrophic. We made the trade for freedom.

We’re facing an intersection of high unemployment and environmental needs. Let’s respond the same way we did last time, nearly 90 years ago.

In the 1930s, American had entered the Great Depression. Unemployment soared. At the same time, this part of the country became known as the Dust Bowl in a time called the Dirty Thirties. The combination of sodbusting and drought years were causing duststorms that blew away valuable top soil and covered small South Dakota towns in a layer of dirt.