In Hawaii, more young people die from suicide than from traffic crashes, cancer, or heart disease. According to the Hawaii Department of Health’s latest statistics, suicide was the leading cause of death for youth ages 10-19. For many keiki, the struggle is not just anxiety or depression, it ...
The abortion issue won't go away, as so many politicians wish it would. It persists because the discussion and debate are about our very existence. What is life? The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, which has defined ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Remember when presidential assassination attempts used to be rare and not something that happened once every quarter? What's even more disturbing than their current frequency is the desensitization that seems to have set in. The discrepancy between official ...
I recently watched "A Face in the Crowd" for the umpteenth time. I had a better reason than procrastination to rewatch Elia Kazan's brilliant 1957 film exploring populism in the television age. It was homework. I was asked to discuss it with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz at the ...
When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages against our federal government. For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in both ways. First, his state of mind is very angry, all the ...
I am a Junior at Lahainaluna High School. I am writing to you today because I believe we should be more involved in contributing towards the health of our native sea life. I’m specifically concerned about the Hawaiian monk seal. In 1976, they were classified as “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act, and ever since their population has remained well under 2,000 until today. More than half of the causes are derived from humans,whether it's being tangled up in nets, caught on hooks, and the leading cause, toxoplasmosis. Toxoplasmosis is a guaranteed death caused by ...
