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This Thanksgiving comes with a side of reckoning

This week is a time for giving thanks.

• Nevada’s senators take a for-the-people stand
• Mr. President, please put Americans first
• Señor presidente, ponga a los estadounidenses en primer lugar
• We made this bed and we can’t get a night’s sleep in it

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• Young man’s suicide a tragic reminder of what’s at stake with AI

  Dec 8, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By David Armstrong

  Zane Shamblin’s suicide was a preventable tragedy.

• Is US surrendering its biotech crown?

  Dec 8, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Karen Kerrigan

  The Department of Health and Human Services recently canceled $500 million in funding for vaccine research that it had previously pledged to scientists.

• He’s unpopular, a lame duck, and taking heat from all sides

  Dec 8, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Michelle Cottle

  It came a day or two late for Thanksgiving, but congressional Republicans gave democracy lovers something to be thankful for over the holiday weekend: signs of spinal fortitude.

• Do the numbers in sports tell a story, or just settle a bet?

  Dec 8, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By LZ Granderson

  In any given year, there are more than 500,000 American boys playing on almost 20,000 high school basketball teams, and fewer than 2% of them will make it to March Madness. Only 60 young men get drafted by an NBA team each summer, and in the most recent draft, a third of those spots went to international players.

• Learners shine in the glow of Sun Youth Forum

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  Sean Parker

  Imagine this: I’m standing on a gym floor in front of 700 high school students staring at me from the bleachers. I swear this isn’t the start of a recurring nightmare, it was the exact opposite. It was a dream opportunity to introduce our organization to ...

  

• Legacy tech has become the blind spot in United States’ green agenda

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Pratik Mistry

  Legacy tech is weakening America’s green goals. The issue receives little attention in national discussions, yet it drives a quiet rise in energy use across the economy.

• Big-box retailers must do better for consumers

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Ryan Hampton

  For the past few years, working families across the Silver State have been watching grocery bills rise faster than their paychecks.

• Now it’s clear why Trump got rid of the top military lawyers

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Jackie Calmes

  At least President Donald Trump didn’t “kill all the lawyers” first, literally following Shakespeare’s words in “Henry VI, Part 2” on evading the rule of law. Instead, just a month into his second term in February, he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth simply fired the top lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force, known as judge advocates general, or JAGs.

• Women could be key to unlocking longer life

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By F.D. Flam

  For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high-tech interventions but to eating lots of plain yogurt.

• Russian dictator playing American ‘useful idiots’ like a flute

  Dec 7, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Thomas Friedman

  I am sure President Donald Trump and his envoys to Russia, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, sincerely want to stop the killing in Ukraine, but they are failing and will continue to fail as long as they persist in their naive view that this is just a big real estate deal and that their backgrounds in real estate give them an advantage.

• A safer future must be state’s response to UNLV’s darkest day

  Dec 6, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Arnold Vasquez and Eric James

  On Dec. 6, 2023, the unthinkable happened. A gunman entered a building on the UNLV campus and opened fire in a place that so many students, faculty and staff consider home. An institution devoted to learning, discovery and safety was suddenly overtaken by fear and chaos.

• Abuse of pardon power calls for constitutional amendment

  Dec 6, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Jamelle Bouie

  The anti-federalist opponents of the Constitution worried that the office of the presidency was too powerful.

• Follow the money to understand Trump’s plan for peace in Ukraine

  Dec 5, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Trudy Rubin

  The Wall Street Journal nailed it last week with a headline that read, “Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine.”

• It’s time Musk pay back what he’s taken from taxpayers

  Dec 5, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Issac Bailey

  As a taxpayer in these United States of America, Elon Musk would not be the world’s richest man without me. Everyday Americans such as myself funded his rise to unprecedented heights on the economic ladder. Without us, he would not be nearing trillionaire status.

• Loyalty and rebellion both fail GOP

  Dec 5, 2025 (2 a.m.)

  By Ronald Brownstein

  For Republicans, November was bookended by two ominous developments: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation and the party’s resounding defeats in the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races.