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Republicans are dancing on the grave. They really were afraid of losing the House and with reason. Their leader, the president, is sinking like a rock. That should hurt them, but only so much.

The decision of the Virginia Supreme Court to throw out the new map enacted by voters at the urging of Democrats threatens to leave the House in ...Read more

The Pulitzer Prizes, administered annually by Columbia University, are the most famous prizes awarded to American journalists, authors, playwrights and others in the world of letters. A win can elevate an obscure book to bestseller status, turn a play into a Broadway hit, or save a reporter during a round of layoffs. So prestigious is this ...Read more

Sometimes life lets us set the record straight. It happens in big and small ways and reminds us to stay true to who we are, to believe in our talents, pursue our interests and develop our skill sets. The world is filled with people who will tell you "no," and it feels like we are hearing "no" more frequently these days. Legislation, academic ...Read more

I come from a long line of medical surprise artists. The men in the Dion family are winning fistfights into their early 60s. Somewhere between the ages of 68 and 72, we go to St. Anne's Hospital. Shortly after that, we go to Notre Dame Cemetery where we are buried next to other surprised Catholics of French-Canadian ancestry.

"That's the old ...Read more

The Supreme Court has just restored a woman's ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the drug, mifepristone.

The Charlotte Lozier Institute is...Read more

What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who believes in extensive Executive Power, must follow the decisions of the courts, just as judicial review limits Congress to actions that are within ...Read more

When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages against our federal government.

For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in both ways.

First, his state of mind is very angry, all the time: at allies, at journalists, at Republicans who ...Read more

Years ago, Ray Charles sang: "Them that's got is them that gets, and I ain't got nothin' yet."

Millions of workaday Americans today are wailing that blues refrain, thanks to price increases caused by President Donald Trump's slap-happy tariff policy. He gloated that by imposing import levies of $166 billion on foreign companies, they would be ...Read more

In his famous poem "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats ruminated about what happens when "the center cannot hold," and "things fall apart." Things have well and truly fallen apart in America and the collapse of the political center is both a cause and a symptom. For those of us who are Democrats, the disintegration of a large, ...Read more

Tucker Carlson's problem, it would seem, is that what he says doesn't matter, because he has a long history of not saying what he thinks. True, he once starred at Fox News, and even now his followers on social media number in the millions. But he's shifted into crackpot conspiracies and turning on Donald Trump. Anything for an audience.

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What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections. Without the timely intervention of the right-wing justices, a Democratic wave loomed over the White House and Capitol Hill -- which ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced the death of another person in its custody -- the 17th person so far in 2026. Deaths inside of immigration detention centers are rising and now occur at a rate of roughly one every six days. Since the start of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign, more than 40 people have ...Read more

From Los Angeles to New Jersey, many of the United States' host cities for the 2026 World Cup are home to large immigrant communities. Though this year's slogan is "Football Unites the World," these communities now live in daily fear of racial profiling, inhumane detention, separation from loved ones and summary deportation because of ...Read more

When police arrested Kimberlee Williams, a grandmother living in Oklahoma, because of a warrant from Maryland, she was shocked. She had never been to Maryland in her life.

Ms. Williams later learned that Maryland police had relied on an incorrect result from facial recognition technology that falsely flagged her as a suspect. She is the 14th ...Read more