Biden s first 100 days, gun control, and other top Opinion reads this week
From Biden s successes and failures in 100 days, to foreign policy, to racism in police, here are some of our top columns you may have missed.
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In today s fast-paced news environment, it can be hard to keep up. For your weekend reading, we ve started in-case-you-missed-it compilations of some of the week s top USA TODAY Opinion pieces. As always, thanks for reading, and for your feedback. USA TODAY Opinion editors
By David Mastio and Jill Lawrence Biden’s speech tonight made it seem all so reasonable and normal. His tone was folksy and quiet. He only repeated one falsehood from The Washington Post s list of Biden’s first 100 days misleading claims (traveling 17,000 miles with Chinese president Xi Jinping when they were both vice presidents). But at its core, Biden proposed a cradle-to-grave liberalism that is shocking in its ambition. From preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds to
I went to war in the Middle East. I know the haunting look in the eye of nurses battling COVID.
When this pandemic is finally over, our country needs to be ready to welcome home the health care workers coming back from war.
Brian Castner
Opinion contributor
In the fall and winter of 2020, as COVID cases rose quickly and every day seemed to set a new all-time high, nurses took to Twitter to post photos of themselves after working 12-hour shifts. Some used a version of the “How it started. How it’s going” meme: the first photo a smiling fresh-faced nursing school graduate, the second a worn shell, cheeks hollow and faces bruised from constant wear of tight N95 masks.
After 98 days in the White House, President Joe Biden delivered his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. USA TODAY Deputy Editorial Page Editor David Mastio and Commentary Editor Jill Lawrence watched the 65-minute speech and had strikingly different reactions to what the president said.
David: Donald Trump is gone, but Washington is still stuck on abnormal. Joe Biden has brought back low-key competence and along with it a sense of calm, yet I can’t wrap my mind around a speech to a joint session of Congress centered on plans to spend $6 trillion and change in addition to the regular budget.
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