{"id":114808,"date":"2021-05-21T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=114808"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:31:33","slug":"covid-vaccines-israel-gaza-violence-child-care-and-other-top-opinion-reads-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/covid-vaccines-israel-gaza-violence-child-care-and-other-top-opinion-reads-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID vaccines, Israel-Gaza violence, child care and other top Opinion reads this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we’ve started\u00a0in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week’s top\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion\u00a0pieces.\u00a0As always, thanks for reading, and\u00a0for your feedback.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0USA TODAY Opinion editors<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Republican lies have thrust America into its third revolution. We are a nation in crisis.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Carrie Cordero and Edward J. Larson<\/strong><\/p>\n

“To read and listen to the headlines after House\u00a0Republicans voted to remove\u00a0Rep. Liz\u00a0Cheney\u00a0from her leadership post, one would think that the ‘turning point’\u00a0in the Republican Party began with its denial of the 2020 election result after Nov. 3, or the Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. Neither of those moments, however, is or was\u00a0the actual turning point. Instead, the transformation one of the nation\u2019s two major political parties took place well before each of those events. And the longer it takes for the public conversation to recognize how dramatically the Republican Party has already shifted, the longer it will take to develop a coherent civic strategy to protect U.S. democracy going forward.”<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0How the nation’s Founders wrote the Constitution to put the US on a path to end slavery<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Michael Medved<\/strong><\/p>\n

“During the eight years of Revolutionary struggle (1775-83), all thirteen colonies made a significant start along that path by legally and separately banning the transatlantic slave trade. Following the American victory and the resulting treaty with Britain, three states (South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia) resumed the importation of captives from Africa.\u00a0At the Constitutional convention, most delegates denounced ‘the infernal traffic’\u00a0(George Mason of Virginia) as ‘a nefarious institution’\u00a0and ‘the curse of heaven’\u00a0(Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania), but South Carolina threatened to exclude itself from the new nation unless the other states agreed not to interfere with the commerce in slaves for a set period of time.”<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a04 reasons you shouldn’t assume Democrats are doomed in the 2022 midterm elections<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jesse Ferguson<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Remember the last time Democrats had a new president in the Oval Office? In May 2009,\u00a0Lady Gaga\u2019s ‘Poker Face’\u00a0topped the charts. The\u00a0iPhone was\u00a02 years old. The\u00a0first ‘Star Trek’\u00a0remake\u00a0led at the box office. And Democrats controlled Congress, but that was short-lived. Just 18 months later, the party lost its\u00a0House majority\u00a0in a midterm election\u00a0shellacking.”<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0Israel-Gaza violence again shows Middle East conflict not just a \u2018real-estate dispute\u2019<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0The Editorial Board<\/strong><\/p>\n

“A cease-fire in the days ahead might end this latest round of bloodletting. But the hard work of resolving the Palestinian issue remains. President Joe Biden certainly has a full agenda of domestic and international issues. But as leader of the one\u00a0world power with the clout to be an honest broker of peace, he needs eventually to produce his own version of a peace plan. As it is, he has\u00a0yet to name an\u00a0ambassador to Israel or a consul general in Jerusalem\u00a0to speak with Palestinians.”<\/p>\n

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The CDC masking advice (Photo: Dave Whamond\/PoliticalCartoons.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

4.\u00a0My dad was an IRS tax man. The job is more dangerous than it looks.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Charles E. Kraus<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When tax filing deadlines arrive, people think about many things.\u00a0Last-minute appointments with their accountants, concern that they might\u00a0have exaggerated their exaggerations just a little too much.\u00a0Maybe they are wondering whether it will be possible to space out the payments.\u00a0I think about my dad. He was an IRS agent. Father went to work for the Internal Revenue Service in 1931. Many years later, he happened to be issued a license plate with an alphanumeric sequence beginning ‘HH.’\u00a0His wife said it stood for Honest Harold.\u00a0He was honest, more or less.\u00a0That is the impression I gathered from the stories he told about his life as a tax man.”<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0We’re vaccinated but our son isn’t. The CDC lifted mask rules. So what do we do now?<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Louie Villalobos<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The CDC has cleared\u00a0children 12 years and older\u00a0for the vaccine and was reporting that\u00a0as of Friday\u00a0\u00a0120 million people\u00a0have been fully vaccinated.\u00a0 Honestly, that combination of facts is amazing and lowkey frightening. But\u00a0our son isn\u2019t vaccinated and though things are speeding along with getting the children sorted out, we still don\u2019t know when or if he\u2019ll get his turn. He\u2019s 8 years old and a few years off where science has reached. Thank you, scientists, by the way. You\u2019re doing the lord\u2019s work.”<\/p>\n

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Better Safe Than Free (Photo: Bob Englehart\/PoliticalCartoons.com)<\/span><\/p>\n

6.\u00a0Americans want more babies in their lives. Biden’s subsidized child care won’t help that.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Kelsey Bloom<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In ‘Children of Men,’ the\u00a0dystopian novel\u00a0made into an acclaimed 2006\u00a0film, no child has been born in a quarter of a century\u00a0and no one can explain why. England, where the novel is set, is a dystopian heap of refuse without hope, without laughter\u00a0and without love. There\u2019s no future without children, after all.\u00a0The year? 2021.\u00a0We\u2019re not there yet. But things don\u2019t look good.\u00a0In April, the Census Bureau reported that\u00a0U.S. population growth slowed\u00a0in the past decade to its lowest rate since the 1930s.”<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Shameless liars for Trump or out-of-touch Reagan relics? Republicans have bad choices.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jill Lawrence<\/strong><\/p>\n

“What if you were getting married, going shopping\u00a0or (God forbid) voting for high-level political leaders, and you had two choices. Behind Door No. 1, a posse of liars and opportunists living (or pretending to live) in a fact-free world, many\u00a0of them Ivy Leaguers, all of them counting on\u00a0adoring, supposedly working-class masses to win and keep power. Behind Door No. 2, principled people who insist (if belatedly) on truth-telling, but have unfortunate\u00a0affinities for unpopular\u00a0military interventions\u00a0and starving the federal government of money to keep it smaller than most voters want.”<\/p>\n

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GOP and Trump (Photo: Adam Zyglis\/The Buffalo News)<\/span><\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Class of 2021: I didn’t have a traditional senior year of high school. Maybe that’s OK.<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Escobedo<\/strong><\/p>\n

“My team made it to the second round of our\u00a0athletic conference’s\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0soccer playoffs in 2019, but on the way to the game I got a headache and it got so bad I couldn\u2019t play. I was relieved when we went up 2-0 and figured I\u2019d be better in time for our next game. But our opponent made a comeback and beat us. I took it hard. I was a sophomore, and I blamed myself for our loss and vowed never to let my teammates down again. On the bus heading back to school, we were miserable, especially the seniors who had played their last high school soccer game. I didn\u2019t even want to imagine what that felt like, but then my junior year I made the difficult decision to focus on academics \u2013 with two AP classes and three community college classes \u2013 and skipped the 2019-20 season, determined to make the most of my senior season as a team leader on and off the field.\u00a0That would have been this year, if there had been a season. As it turned out, my last high school soccer game was the one I couldn\u2019t play in.”<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Cop killing of teen shows how child welfare, police derail young Black and brown lives<\/h2>\n

By\u00a0Marc\u00eda Hopkins and Susan Vivian Mangold<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Historically, the child welfare system has over-surveilled, over-separated, over-reported\u00a0and over-investigated Black, Latinx and Native American families, while also failing to protect their children after placing them in foster care or putting them up for adoption.\u00a0Each year, there are about\u00a04 million reports nationwide\u00a0to child protection services. Fewer than 17% of these children receive any services\u00a0\u2013\u00a0in or out of the home \u2013 after they are reported, screened, investigated\u00a0and recorded. Native American children\u00a0have the highest rate of involvement: more than\u00a015 per 1,000; Black children have the second highest rate at 14 per thousand.”<\/p>\n

You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com.<\/i><\/p>\n

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