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WASHINGTON — House Democrats began their messaging campaign to hold President Donald Trump accountable for threatening to eliminate the “whole” Iranian civilization with a 10-second floor showdown Thursday.

“The ...Read more

When I was younger, it was pretty easy to believe that only white countries should have a nuclear bomb.

When you looked at the white countries, the guy (and it was always a guy) in charge wore a nice suit, and he'd been...Read more

Will the U.S.-Iran war turn out to have been the 39-day war, following the locution of the 12-day Israel-Iran war of June 2025?

The markets, as this is written, seem to think so. Asian stock markets were up Wednesday ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- I don't remember seeing anything this wild on NBC's "The Apprentice."

The religious tyrants who lead Iran must have read President Donald Trump's 1987 bestselling book, "The Art of the Deal." The book ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Rep. Kelly Morrison violated a law that requires members of Congress to disclose stock trades and other financial trades within 45 days of making them.

The violation was reported by the news outlet NOTUS, ...Read more

Like most Americans, we were relieved that President Donald Trump’s potentially cataclysmic pledge to kill off Iranian civilization Tuesday night did not proceed as the president’s unacceptably violent rhetoric had ...Read more

Given the charged and, at times, apocalyptic rhetoric coming from the White House in recent days — particularly President Donald Trump’s warning that a “whole civilization will die tonight” — absent a deal, the ...Read more

Stocks soared and oil prices cratered on Wednesday after the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire in the ongoing conflict. But whether the fragile peace can hold for that long remains the looming question....Read more

As the tenuous two-week ceasefire with Tehran wobbles already, there is a new reality in the Middle East. But it’s not the one President Donald Trump thought he would achieve when he started the Iran war.

Both sides are...Read more

A ceasefire now appears to be holding between the United States and Iran, the result of President Donald Trump's repeated threats against the country to open the Strait of Hormuz and resume global commerce.

It's a ...Read more

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail-in voting across the 50 states. The states have the...Read more

Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro is correct to join 23 other states in challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order that instructs the U.S. Postal Service to regulate mail-in voting across the 50 states. The states have the...Read more

Watching the enthusiasm, especially among people younger than me, over the Artemis II mission around the moon, recalled that the ...Read more

The long-promised bankruptcy of Social Security is coming into view, with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) warning checks could be automatically cut by 20% in just six years.

Will we spend our golden years driving ...Read more

Tax day is nearly upon us, reigniting the debate over President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, passed in 2017 and extended last year. In a front-page story last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that last year’s ...Read more

Student test scores aren’t looking good, and schools aren’t being held accountable for poor results. That’s not even considering whether the right things are being tested.

I learned this the hard way. My family is ...Read more

What must it be like, we wonder, to be an American child in the era of President Donald Trump?

Prior to this president, it was long understood that presidents, be they Democratic or Republican, should avoid rhetoric unfit...Read more

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing,” famously said Stephen Covey, the renowned organizational consultant.

With AI legislation, what matters most is common sense. That means first not killing, or ...Read more