Op-Ed

The news makes for a sickening split screen.

Anyone with access to the news and a moral sense knows who is responsible for the unfolding tragedy in Ukraine. Yet realistically many of those confronting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tanks won’t survive their heroic effort. So instead of waiting for history’s verdict, this is the moment to thank the Ukrainians for coming to freedom’s defense by nominating them for the Nobel Peace Prize.

WILKES-BARRE — Nate Benjamin, local filmmaker, has written a comedy film called “Third Degree Felons,” which will be filmed in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, and production is set to take place during the months of July and August. Benjamin is is in need of almost an entire cast, crew and extras.

There’s a lot to be learned about the omicron coronavirus variant, but scientists already know enough to prescribe a rational response to the threat. As the world waits for data, there’s plenty of useful knowledge that comes from evolutionary biology.

When the Supreme Court rules in the coming months on the Mississippi and Texas laws substantially restricting abortions, it will do more than decide the future of its 1973 ruling legalizing a woman’s right to end her pregnancy.

Americans continue to have a dim view of Congress. And for good reason.

In a recent survey of presidential scholars, President Donald Trump finished a dismal third from the bottom, just ahead of perennial duds James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.

Sitting in my eighth-grade classroom, I stealthily check my email, hoping for news updates from The New York Times or CNN about the heightened COVID-19 crisis in India, my country of origin.

What could be more natural than going to Mars?