Mere hours after the Trump administration's latest tariff scheme launched on July 24, the government was sued again by the same small businesses that had already defeated prior White House tariff shenanigans, most notably at the Supreme Court. As Bloomberg Law reported, these companies are part of an “increasingly vocal cohort of business ...Read more

The good news is that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to provide officers with body cameras over the next few months. The bad news is that agency officials don’t sound enthusiastic about actually releasing any video.

ICE has been embroiled in controversy for most of President Donald Trump’s second term, as opponents of ...Read more

Parents are all too familiar with the ongoing battle to get their kids to eat a vegetable or two.

This summer, they’ve been fighting it themselves.

Just weeks ago, every bite of greens came with the fear of exposure to cyclosporiasis, a parasite many of us were blissfully unaware of until it began triggering stomach problems that leave no ...Read more

For a half-century, Congress has been offering middle- and working-class Americans options for tax-advantaged individual retirement savings, largely to compensate for the disappearance of traditional pensions.

But the transition from so-called defined benefit pensions to defined contribution accounts such as 401(k) plans and individual ...Read more

For the last month, Americans have viewed their lunchtime salads or even a single, crisp leaf of iceberg on their burger as a possible threat. Could it harbor cyclospora, the explosive-diarrhea-causing parasite that by early August had sickened thousands, hospitalized hundreds, and led to two deaths?

In Michigan, the epicenter of the cyclospora...Read more

Brunswick and Echelon Insights asked registered voters in late June what they would tell America's chief executive officers if they had the chance. Only three percent said anything about politics. Before any CEOs breathe a sigh of relief, the same poll asked about contributing to the president's new White House ballroom. That was the most ...Read more

It is an odd confession to make about a statistic, I realize, but then again I am an economist, so I am just going to go ahead: I love GDP. There. I said it.

GDP — for gross domestic product, the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a county’s borders — is in many ways the ideal economic statistic, both for ...Read more

Math can mean different things to different people. It’s simple sums for children or sophisticated models for hedge fund managers. For mathematicians, it is an act of discovery. Many spend years trying to find new mathematical truths or “proofs,” work that can underpin everything from cryptography and computing to finance and engineering. ...Read more

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — There is nothing wrong with this country that cannot be cured by what's right with it. This state's most famous native, William Jefferson Clinton, said so in his first inaugural speech as president back in 1993. That sentiment permeates his presidential library, which locals told me he still visits regularly. In ...Read more

In the best tradition of New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Attorney General Tish James are teaming up to help unaccompanied minors facing deportation proceedings without attorneys, a cruel and inhumane situation exacerbated by President Donald Trump’s relentless attacks against immigrants.

There will be $7.25 million in ...Read more

Parents deserve clarity when making decisions about childhood vaccines. They should not have to choose between political pronouncements and public-health institutions whose credibility has itself been tested in recent years.

The White House’s decision to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines has reignited an important debate ...Read more

While the world is focused on the failures of President Donald Trump’s warmongering in Iran and “peacemaking” in Gaza, too little attention is being paid to a potential new Mideast flash point sparked by messianic Israeli settlers on the occupied West Bank.

Escalating settler violence against Palestinians — attacking their villages, ...Read more

Two key questions are shaping up in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, and both center on Abdul El-Sayed's embrace of the accused antisemitic Internet influencer Hasan Piker.

First, can a political candidate throw his arms around a hater without being tainted by the hate? And second, why is someone who is as purportedly smart as El-Sayed allowing his...Read more

The surprise defeat of a far left fringe Democrat in Wisconsin could signal that socialists have finally jumped the shark, paving the way for more electable moderates in the general election.

Francesca Hong, who advocated for abolishing the police and canceling Thanksgiving, lost the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary on Tuesday last week, ...Read more

In the grand buffet of problems explaining President Donald Trump's abysmal approval ratings, reserve a tray for Mexican food.

Americans are rightfully frustrated with the myriad consequences of the war with Iran he plunged us into, the rising cost of living, his pharaonic obsession with monuments to himself and his overall doddering state of ...Read more

Need another metric to show that, for President Donald Trump, "Make America Great Again" means regressing to a 1950s-style white patriarchy? Probably not. But here's a good-bad one for you, marking the deplorable progress of Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's war on diversity in the leadership ranks of the nation's military:

Hegseth's ...Read more

Recently, a middle school teacher took to an online forum to share her grief after two students dumped soap into classroom fish tanks, killing 11 baby fish and seriously injuring two larger fish and two frogs. The students’ only consequence was to apologize.

Other educators weighed in with their own stories about animals who were victims of ...Read more

Many private liberal arts colleges are entering death throes, even as education in the humanities in our tumultuous world is more important than ever. There may be ways to save the tradition, if not all the ivied brick-and-mortar campuses.

There are about 200 “national liberal arts colleges” in the popular U.S. News & World Report ...Read more

By no coincidence, Black August and Black Philanthropy Month are observed at the same time. Both are rooted in a simple truth: Our liberation is never granted; it is built, protected and sustained.

The Black liberation movement commemorated by Black August gave us the blueprint for organizing people who had been deliberately and systematically ...Read more

The average human being can’t survive more than 72 hours without water. In Puerto Rico, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens are being forced to go 48 hours without running water in their homes during a hot, dry summer while also enduring a shaky electrical grid.

If such things were happening to a mainland population of similar size — ...Read more