Opinion

The United States set a new record for new daily coronavirus cases, smashing right through one after another after another. Yet, the winter cold, flu, and, this year, Covid season, has only just begun. Though we're tired of masks and social distancing, we've gotten better at it. But our greatest test is yet to come: Thanksgiving.

As baseball legend has it, in 1950, 13-year-old Kathryn "Tubby" Johnston asked her mother to cut her hair so she could don the uniform of the King's Dairy Little League team and play ball. After playing several games as a boy, by mid-season she let her coach and teammates know about her secret, but her prowess kept her safe at first base despite the jeers from opposing players and their parents.

As Joe Biden prepares to assume the presidency, it is important that our leaders acknowledge that without significant reform, the systemic challenges to government accountability and corruption made obvious by President Donald Trump's White House tenure will persist.

Here's a surprise (not). President Donald Trump has formed a political action committee that will be able to solicit and accept donations from an unlimited number of people and lavish it on preferred political allies -- not to mention fund his own political activity by underwriting travel, salaries, polling and other expenses.

I don't judge someone by whom they vote for, what team they cheer for or how they like their steak cooked. But few things make me lose respect for a person faster than learning they're an anti-masker. I have not arrived at this opinion lightly; as I write this, my home state of Utah just shattered a record by reporting 3,919 new cases of Covid-19.

Around the fifth anniversary of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, in late spring of 2016, President Barack Obama did an interview with CNN. Obama was seated at the head of the long conference room table in the White House Situation Room and after I asked the President a number of questions about his decision to authorize that operation, I changed direction. I asked: "Donald Trump. What are your thoughts, if he was to be sitting in this chair, about how he would be handling these decisions?"

It's tempting to say that President Donald Trump's loss of Arizona is the revenge of the late US Sen. John McCain.

Spare a thought for Republicans at this difficult time, writes Tim Stanley. If they dump Trump now, he will sulk, his base's turnout in two key runoffs in Georgia will drop and they might lose the Senate. If they back Trump's stolen-election theory, the opposite could happen-- but at the cost of wider sympathy among moderates in the new Trump era party. What would you do?