Steve Chapman – Page 20

Mifeprex and misoprostol pills are used for medication abortions. Mifeprex is also known as RU-486.

Column: A barrier to abortion can be deadly in a pandemic

February 3, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic has given a big boost to methods of bringing health care to people remotely, known as "telemedicine." If there's a lethal contagion going around, a doctor's office...

An 8-foot steel fence topped with razor wire circles the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 29, 2021, in Washington. The fence was built following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Donald Trump supporters that left five people dead and scores injured.

Column: Impeachment will fail, but here’s another way to punish Trump

January 29, 2021 at 2:04 p.m.

Trying to persuade Republican senators to convict Donald Trump in an impeachment trial is like trying to sell tickets for a trip on the Titanic after it sank. There is...

President Joe Biden, shown at the White House on Jan. 26, wants to provide additional stimulus checks of $1,400 to the majority of Americans.

Column: $1,400 stimulus payments for most Americans would be a waste of money

January 27, 2021 at 1:59 p.m.

Last spring, the Treasury Department sent out "economic impact payments" to some 160 million people, in the amount of $1,200 for each adult who qualified. In September, exhibiting a sense...

Tenants rights advocates march on Jan. 13, 2021, in Boston. The protest was part of a national day of action calling on the incoming Biden administration to extend the eviction moratorium initiated in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Column: The eviction moratorium shows the cost of good intentions

January 22, 2021 at 1:17 p.m.

On his first day as president, Joe Biden reversed a raft of Donald Trump's ill-conceived policies — and then adopted one of them as his very own. He extended the...

Capitol Police on Jan. 19, 2021, walk past a poster seeking information on people who attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Column: Don’t put US Capitol rioters on the no-fly list

January 19, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.

If you've seen videos of people who took part in the U.S. Capitol riot weeping in shock after being barred from boarding their flights home, you may feel as Oscar...

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., third from right, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, second from left, are applauded by Republican members of Congress after they objected to the certification of the electoral votes for the state of Arizona on Jan. 6, 2021.

Column: The time for healing is after the cancer of Trumpism has been removed

January 15, 2021 at 1:18 p.m.

Emotions were raw during Wednesday's House impeachment debate, but Republicans were in a conciliatory mood. That is, they were in the mood for Democrats to conciliate them, Donald Trump and...

Trump supporters participate in a rally Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Column: A Trump self-pardon could be a service to the nation

January 13, 2021 at 2:02 p.m.

For the past four years, President Donald Trump has regularly flouted the Constitution, laws and basic norms of presidential behavior, and he has gotten away with it. He has acted...

Ted Cruz hugs his father, Rafael, and his wife, Heidi, after suspending his 2016 presidential campaign in Indianapolis.

Column: Sen. Ted Cruz’s peculiar aversion to protecting Hong Kong dissidents

March 11, 2024 at 1:54 p.m.

The Cold War was a dark, tense time when two hostile superpowers were locked in an endless standoff, grappling for advantage around the globe and poised to annihilate each other...

Column: The Capitol riot shows the growing danger of right-wing extremism

January 11, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

In 2009, Barack Obama's Department of Homeland Security published a report on the rising danger posed by right-wing extremists. The Great Recession, the authors warned, "could create a fertile recruiting...

Vice President Mike Pence speaks as President Donald Trump looks on April 22, 2020, during the the daily briefing on the coronavirus at the White House in Washington.

Column: Mike Pence needs to save the country from Trump

January 8, 2021 at 10:43 a.m.

After three years and 50 weeks of meekly deferring to Donald Trump, Mike Pence finally ran out of patience Tuesday. Trump demanded that the vice president block Congress' certification of...

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