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One of the most powerful addictions of our times is also one of the most vexing to treat. After all, there’s a good chance you’re on this drug. It’s called social media.

Like anything potentially addictive, social ...Read more

Farewell to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was fired Thursday, joining the pantheon of President Donald Trump’s awful cabinet secretaries who learned the hard way that there’s no pleasing a fundamentally ...Read more

There are moments when a president must project resolve. The American people expect it. Adversaries watch for it. Allies depend on it. But resolve without clarity is not leadership; it is risk.

President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

In President Donald Trump's first term, many members of his Cabinet were establishment conservatives with tangible, executive experience who were willing to follow the president far to the right … but had lines in the ...Read more

Even if I hadn't been privileged over the years to enter the White House countless times, always with reverence for its two-century history, I'd have been upset to tears last October by the sudden sight of excavators' ...Read more

Pam Bondi was loyal, turning the U.S. Department of Justice into a tool for partisan and political retribution, just as President Donald Trump intended. In the end, though, that wasn’t enough to keep her job as U.S. ...Read more

It's April 1, the day when guys my age finally stop writing 2025 on their checks.

I only wrote two checks this month. One was to my dentist because he still sends me a paper bill with a return envelope, and one was to a...Read more

I am an Iran hardliner. But I'm struggling to understand how other hardliners can be so credulous about President Donald Trump's leadership of this war. It's as if you were stranded by the side of the road and accepted a...Read more

Among the few things that Americans agree on these days is that housing is too expensive. With a shortfall of at least 3.7 million homes, the obvious solution is to build more. Regrettably, a once-promising effort in ...Read more

The Republican crack-up is coming — not over the Iran war and not today. But the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is a harbinger of what’s to come for the GOP in 2028.

Let’s stipulate the caveats. Events, ...Read more

A month into the Iran war, the United States has offered a 15-point plan to end the hostilities, which includes a broad range of demands on Iran’s nuclear and missile programs, and guarantees on freedom of navigation in ...Read more

California built its tradition of open government — including for citizen boards that set the rules for such functions as automotive repair and security guard licensing — precisely to keep well-funded corporate ...Read more

In the last year there have been a record number of legislative efforts to block military actions, threatened or carried out by the Trump administration, that are seen as illegal or unconstitutional. This has included ...Read more

Had a satirist first imagined what President Donald Trump would want for his presidential library, the cartoon surely would have looked exactly like what Trump apparently actually does want: a massive Miami skyscraper ...Read more

Two members of Florida’s congressional delegation — one Democrat, U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Miramar and one Republican, Cory Mills of New Smyrna Beach — have become embarrassments to this state, their ...Read more

How worried are America's wealthy about the possibility they'll be hit with a higher tax for Social Security?

Plenty, judging from the endless creativity of their proposals to improve the program's fiscal condition by ...Read more

President Donald Trump must have come to the Supreme Court for oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case hoping to hear “his” justices inveigh against what he has called illegal aliens. Instead, he heard a lot ...Read more

For those who can't tell the difference between a selfless freedom fighter and a murderous terrorist, the FBI last week offered clarity.

In addressing the motivation for the attempted bombing on March 12 of Temple Israel,...Read more

Vaping — the use of e-cigarettes to inhale nicotine, flavorings or marijuana through a battery-powered device — has become so commonplace that many now take it for granted.

But recent news from Bel Air High School, ...Read more

“Eat real food.” That new message, a key pillar of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, isn’t controversial. Nutritionists, scientists, politicians and lunchbox-packing parents all generally agree that’s...Read more