‘Year-round school is also good for kids’

‘In fact colleges are day care’

Jerusalem Demsas at The Atlantic

The “finish of summer season marks the start of freedom,” as a result of “college is not nearly educating children; it is about watching them,” says Jerusalem Demsas. Dad and mom “know the dread of scrambling for sitters or rearranging their very own schedule when college is unexpectedly out of session.” The “downside is not merely what college closures have carried out to children; it is also what they’ve carried out to folks.” Extending college “can be useful to moms and to the broader group.”

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‘We want good legal guidelines, not fewer legal guidelines’

Jefferson Adams at Newsweek

Whereas “deregulation is commonly touted as a catalyst for financial progress, the implications of decreasing the variety of legal guidelines will be catastrophic, as seen in quite a few current disasters,” says Jefferson Adams. Though the “rhetoric of deregulation is politically expedient, the realities of its penalties are way more advanced and sometimes detrimental to public security and welfare.” The “significance of legal guidelines in safeguarding well being and welfare has been evident for years,” as “disasters usually immediate requires stronger legal guidelines.”

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‘Expensive DNC — the place are the Latinos?’

Sabrina Vourvoulias at The Philadelphia Inquirer

The “hope for a minimum of 4 Latino headliners on the DNC this 12 months — which might be probably the most modest signal of incremental progress for the reason that occasion’s final quadrennial gathering — could also be a bridge too far,” says Sabrina Vourvoulias. Latinos “are 19% of the U.S. inhabitants,” however “what was as soon as thought of a slam-dunk for Democratic Social gathering acquire, has change into far much less sure because the twenty first century wears on.” The “invisibilizing of Latino Democrats actually would not assist.”

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‘Mexico flirts with dictatorship’

Mary Anastasia O’Grady at The Wall Avenue Journal

Mexicans who “wish to stay in a pluralistic and free republic are on edge about September,” says Mary Anastasia O’Grady. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador “plans to go a set of radical constitutional amendments” earlier than leaving workplace. If “he succeeds, Mexico will return to a one-party state,” and “issues might get a complete lot uglier contemplating the ability of Mexican cartels.” A “nation that depends on better integration with the worldwide economic system will go backward.”

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