Herbert Rothschild: I hope Navickas will summon the humility to apologize to O’Meara and O’Meara will summon the grace to accept his apology and let the whole matter drop. Millions of people around the globe are being violently assaulted and crying out for our help. Mere misbehavior shouldn’t divert our attention from evil.

Herbert Rothschild: If Trump fails once again to lower prescription drug prices by executive order, hopefully he’ll pressure congressional Republicans at last to support legislation to achieve the same end. Or maybe his ego won’t permit anyone but himself to get credit for a result he insists he wants.

Herbert Rothschild: Trump is only the latest Republican who has told working-class white males that they lost their power because women and especially peoples of color have been given advantages they didn’t have.

Herbert Rothschild: In June 2020, Bayer agreed to pay $9.6 billion to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming harm from Roundup. Bayer also assigned $1.25 billion to pay future claims. As of 2023, around 165,000 claims, more than 50,000 of which are still pending, had been made against Roundup. New lawsuits continue to be filed from agricultural workers, homeowners and groundskeepers.

Herbert Rothschild: Those to whom the land acknowledgements have come to sound merely performative might find it meaningful to promote passage of legislation to investigate the impacts and ongoing effects of the infamous Indian boarding schools.

Herbert Rothschild: Now that deep cuts in spending are planned for education, health, nutrition, housing, community development, environmental protection, energy assistance and so much else, it’s clear that our federal government itself is assaulting the people whom all its military spending is ostensibly meant to protect from assault.

Herbert Rothschild: Where American Jews stand on Israel’s ethnic cleansing will depend on our self-understanding. Will we adhere to a problematic idea of national identity or will we champion the values we accused the Nazis of so egregiously violating in the name of “Aryan” supremacy?

Herbert Rothschild: Opinion writing is not just communication. It’s a process of dialogue with yourself and thus of discovery. I find that process highly rewarding. I commend it to you.

Herbert Rothschild: Some Lenten sustenance: Currently, nearly 3.5 million Afghan children are suffering acute malnutrition. And on March 1, Netanyahu sentenced the Gazans to starvation.