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In Colorado, a national debate about the role of Latinos in American society has deep roots in the state’s history, current identity — and future.

I’m a professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s shake-up of the United States’ public health apparatus in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has public health experts concerned about the country’s ability to respond to ...Read more

Americans were forecast to spend a record $38 billion on Mother’s Day and $24 billion on Father’s Day gifts this year, but they can be difficult holidays for adult children given the estrangement epidemic. Just ask ...Read more

The debate over health insurance in the United States has returned to the forefront as the Affordable Care Act faces political pressure, insurance premiums continue to climb and physicians experience increasing ...Read more

My Manhattan apartment is about 800 square feet, the same size as my upstairs neighbors’ — except they’re a family of four plus a large dog. Much as that blows my mind, I also realize that, not so long ago, an 800-...Read more

We love space, but not as an abstraction. For my twin sons, it is a tradition. Their birthday themes have evolved from “Two the Moon” for their second birthday, featured on NASA.gov, to “From Space to the Farm,” ...Read more

My friend Emma Cooksey dozed off driving her 7-month-old baby home one day. She narrowly avoided a catastrophic crash.

Her lousy sleep was the problem. It haunted her nearly her entire adult life. She talked to doctors ...Read more

Whatever the outcome of the “deal, or no deal” scenario with Iran, the public attitude toward the war has been disturbing. Despite President Trump’s constant admonition that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, a ...Read more

President Donald Trump has signed an emergency declaration for the Garden Grove toxic tank emergency — allowing local authorities to receive federal disaster assistance as Orange County fire officials work to contain the...Read more

Democrats have rolled their eyes at President Donald Trump’s plan for a National Garden of American Heroes in Washington, but they’re looking at it all wrong. An outdoor showcase of classical sculpture depicting major ...Read more

I was born just after the end of World War II. The first half of the 20th century marked a particularly difficult, violent era.

But the 21st century so far has been, well, one trauma after another.

It started with 9/11, ...Read more

The U.S. Navy says it plans to buy 15 hulking “battleships” over the next 30 years. The number of such behemoths it actually needs comes closer to zero. The sooner Congress recognizes that fact, the better off American...Read more

Delivering a university commencement address used to simply be a unique kind of honor. Speakers stand before a podium, wearing a traditional graduation cap and robe, to offer graduates life lessons and inspirational words ...Read more

The decline in youth smoking is one of the great public-health achievements of the 21st century, celebrated by conservatives and liberals alike, yet the White House is now in the process of endangering it. Unless it ...Read more

For all the Middle American street cred he once commanded, Vice President JD Vance has turned into a disappointing tool for power.

He and I were reared in the same Ohio steel town, a generation apart, and that once gave ...Read more

After losing his bid for reelection last week, U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie said his “biggest crime” was showing that bipartisan work can be done in modern American politics.

In a moment of reflection on NBC’s “Meet ...Read more

Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso are vying for the progressive mantle as they battle in a Democratic primary for the heavily Latino NY-07 district that snakes through fast-changing...Read more

Voters will decide in November whether to overturn the abortion rights that were enshrined in the Missouri Constitution just two years ago.

On Friday, Gov. Mike Kehoe announced that he is moving four ballot measures to ...Read more

Progressive Brad Lander is aiming to unseat two-term incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in a contentious Democratic primary for the NY-10 district spanning lower Manhattan and a chunk of brownstone Brooklyn.

The ex-city ...Read more