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Jack Smith finally got his chance to defend his investigation publicly in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Smith is a dinosaur by this administration's standards. He is the polar opposite of Pam Bondi, which should be a frightening thought. He is a career prosecutor who doesn't play politics, and never has.

In his ...Read more

As a leftist, I'm heartened by the reactions of the citizens of Minneapolis and its neighboring municipalities to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's assault against their noncitizen neighbors. The killing of Renee Good makes the risk of confronting illiterate armed paramilitaries hopped up on aggression-fueling steroids brutally clear. Plus, ...Read more

Muhammad Ali was honored with his own forever stamp by the United States Postal Service on Jan. 15. "I should be a postage stamp," Ali famously once said, "because that's the only way I'll ever get licked."

I attended the launch celebration in Louisville where Bob Costas served as the master of ceremonies. As I listened to each speaker share ...Read more

I always thought I was safe from police harassment while driving because my car wasn't a junk, I'm white, and if you pulled me over, I had the country station on my radio.

I'm older now, and I figured that made me even safer. I'm still white, I drive a modest-sized SUV, I wear flannel shirts six months out of the year, my hair is silver and I...Read more

A most American of movies, "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral," is a morality tale about what happens when intimidation goes unanswered. The Clanton gang marauds through Tombstone, flashing their guns and humiliating townspeople. Feeding on fear, their bullying escalates as decent people avoid confrontation and outrageous behavior becomes routine.

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But Minneapolis is still on the table.

The news out of Davos on Wednesday morning was that President Donald Trump told world leaders that he does not plan to use force to take Greenland.

It's actually a relief to hear him say that, even in bellicose tones, which is a measure of the depth to which we've sunk. After all, for the last two weeks...Read more

High noon: And I dream of President Donald Trump's punishment for 2026 acts alone. Minnesota suffers ugly violence on its streets while NATO faces his threat of seizing Greenland. Throw in a military raid on Venezuela, and there you have it.

Seeing the flower-strewn dancing streets in San Francisco for the late great-ful dead muse Bobby Weir ...Read more

WARNING: News headlines can give you a headache.

For example, take typical headlines on today's environmental stories: "Earth's Climate Getting Catastrophically Hotter, Faster," "Greenhouse Pollution Increasing Again," "President Calls Global Warming a Hoax," "Fracking Executive Now Runs Energy Department," "U.S. Funding New Coal Plants," "...Read more

On Oct. 7, 2023, when Israelis were trying to locate the mutilated bodies of their countrymen slaughtered in their homes or at a music festival by thousands of Hamas gunmen, 34 Harvard student groups publicly blamed the massacre not on Hamas but on Israel. In the days that followed, while Israeli forensic experts sought to identify body ...Read more

President Donald Trump's approval ratings are down the drain. The midterms are coming, and if Democrats prevail, his agenda gets boxed in fast.

What can he do to avoid that outcome? Well, what's worked in the past? Immigration! Former President Joe Biden had irresponsibly left borders open for too long, a failure that suited Trump just fine. ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this week, continuing to stoke fear and chaos in a situation his administration created by unleashing lawless, armed federal agents against our communities.

This is not the first time the president has threatened to invoke the act, which Congress intended presidents ...Read more

President Donald Trump made the threat, where else, on Truth Social:

"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which...Read more

As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it in dance halls. Clergy and civic reformers claimed its rhythms promoted sexual freedom and interracial dancing among the youth.

Jazz was just the beginning. In the 1950s, the government set ...Read more

If a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned. The harm is even worse when basic factual evidence, such as full videos and orders, are also hidden from the American people.

Since September, the Trump administration has ordered 26 lethal strikes on civilian boats in ...Read more

Ladies and gentleman, here is your United States Senate, then and now:

Sen. Daniel Webster on March 7, 1850: “It is fortunate that there is a Senate of the United States (with) a just sense of its own dignity, and its own high responsibilities, and a body to which the country looks with confidence for wise, moderate, patriotic, and healing ...Read more