Opinion

May 15, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

This is a better way to spend $500,000

May 15, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Only in the upside-down world of Donald Trump’s second term can 30% import duties on our largest trading partner be considered a positive sign, with the stock market soaring. So yes, the...

May 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

It’s no surprise that President Donald Trump’s first trade “deal” after his disastrous tariffs is more-so a framework than a done deal, but a handshake with British Pri...

May 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

I wonder if nations can be characterized by the same attributes, emotions and traits that we use to describe people. Can a nation grieve or be aggrieved, just as a person can? Can it be welcom...

May 14, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The Trump White House is 1,000% wrong in “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus in the context of immigration. It is the only protection written into the Constitution, not...

May 13, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Kailua-Kona has serious noise pollution problem

May 13, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Ever since those two mushroom clouds darkened the skies above the fiery hell that was Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s two nuclear superpowers somehow found ways to work together &mda...

May 13, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The journey of Bob Prevost of the South Side of Chicago to Pope Leo XIV of the Holy See could not have been foreseen when the new pope was a Chicago kid in the 1960s or when he was a math majo...

May 12, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Unable to make a case in court against Kilmar Abrego García, the man illegally deported to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, federal investigators have focused on smearing...

May 12, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

President Donald Trump is no longer the most important American in the world.

May 11, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Ahead of Mother’s Day this year, the White House has been exploring various policies to boost America’s low birth rate, including a baby bonus (i.e. government cash transfers at th...

May 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Hawaiians deserve to be able to stay home

May 11, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Our world needs symbols of hope, compassion and something greater than the struggles of this life.

May 10, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

New York Times Opinion Columnist David Brooks recently published a column with a title pointing to “Trump’s Single Stroke of Genius.”

May 10, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

In picking a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, the Vatican had a chance to honor the late Pope Francis’ legacy as the greenest pope in modern history. In choosing th...

May 9, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Waste, fraud and abuse. These are the seemingly magic words the world’s richest man incants to justify the chainsaw he’s taking to our government in the form of his Department of G...