Late in the fourth year of the Trump presidency, the United States is confronting a far more dangerous war than the "forever wars" he says he is ending.

This is a multiphase conflict begun by the president himself, with new battle fronts opened daily. The deadly combat can end only if he is voted out of office.

It began as Trump's war on ...Read more

A great nation must have secure borders.

A great democracy must embrace liberty and human rights.

In 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Albert Einstein helped create the International Rescue Committee. Twelve years later, at the end of World War II, there were tens of millions of refugees displaced in Europe whose ...Read more

Netflix's miniseries "Hollywood," a fictionalized retelling of classic moviemaking set in the 1940s and '50s, was panned by some critics for its extreme historical revisionism. The series offers an alternate history of Tinseltown, one that poses the question of what Hollywood would be like today if the industry had been more courageous in taking...Read more

More than 3.1 million acres have burned in California this year - some 3% of the state - with many wildfires still at zero containment and months of fire season left to go. This far exceeds the previous record set in 2018, when 1.7 million acres burned, including the town of Paradise.

These raging fires, some exacerbated by the blistering heat ...Read more

Here's the right question to ask about the $12 million settlement that Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay to settle the lawsuit stemming from the death of Breonna Taylor: Will this deal reduce the chances of the same thing happening again?

Taylor, as most readers know, was killed when police carrying a no-knock warrant broke down her door....Read more

The Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission and Inspector Gen. Max Huntsman would have enough work on their plates if all they did was review the statements and actions by Sheriff Alex Villanueva and his deputies over just the last week.

They could take up the shocking arrest and physical assault of KPCC reporter Josie Huang, ...Read more

SEATTLE – If you are at all claustrophobic, seeing nothing but white smoke from the windows is unsettling. If you go outside, even a precious N95 mask unearthed from a dusty pile of paint cans and brushes is insufficient. Your lungs hurt. Your eyes burn.

Worse, just a few miles away, is the unending destruction. Houses evaporated, leaving ...Read more

As the Big Ten conference announced its about-turn on fall football Tuesday, the Northwestern University coach was ecstatic. "I'm excited for our guys to have a safe opportunity to play the game they love," said Pat Fitzgerald.

That was an absurd statement that should have been challenged on the spot.

Big Ten football is not "safe." Never was,...Read more

Like so much else in 2020, the wildfires engulfing the western half of the United States are without precedent.

They have advanced with astonishing speed, leaping 25 miles overnight and sending a towering pillar of smoke into the stratosphere. At this writing, the blazes have claimed at least three dozen lives, burned more than 5 million acres ...Read more

At some point - and maybe as soon as January - the Department of Justice will find itself facing a herculean task: restoring public confidence in its integrity and commitment to enforcing the law without fear or favor, a bedrock principle that the Trump administration has methodically savaged.

The shoveling-out work will take many forms: ...Read more

Recently, a group of college students challenged me, asking, "Why are you conservatives so into the Constitution and all this 'originalist' stuff?"

In all the decades I've been involved in education, government, and public policy, I never thought that I'd have to make the case for keeping the U.S. Constitution. Sadly, I recognize that I do. ...Read more