The Voting Rights Act has been near death since 2013, and Wednesday the Supreme Court administered the coup de grâce. In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court’s conservative majority effectively ruled that states are now free to redraw congressional districts so as to eliminate many Black Democratic members of Congress.

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The Supreme Court’s decision further eviscerating the Voting Rights Act will enable a systematic disenfranchisement of minority voters that echoes the darkest moments in America’s racial history.

With their sweeping ruling, the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have empowered Republican-controlled states to erase legislative ...Read more

On April 4, 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created “to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration.”

Those objectives were crucial in the aftermath of...Read more

Over the weekend, the United States conducted two lethal strikes on small boats in the Eastern Pacific, part of an ongoing campaign that has now killed nearly 200 people. The public explanation from U.S. Southern Command has become routine: a designated terrorist organization, a known trafficking route, confirmed intelligence. But the government...Read more

No one knows if NATO will survive the Iran war, but if it does, it will be a very different alliance from the one now in place. If NATO survives, it will do so as what we refer to as a European-U.S. NATO, or possibly as a European NATO.

The United States and Israel launched the Iran war without warning and without consulting NATO allies. When ...Read more

The left claims to support affordability but often backs tax hikes on families and businesses. While intended to fund social programs and aid vulnerable groups, these policies tend to raise prices and living costs for Americans.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., recently introduced legislation that would impose a ...Read more

The ousting this month of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a landslide electoral defeat has generated a flood of commentary. Much of it has been about the implications for far-right populism in Europe. Others have focused on the potential impact to U.S. politics, given the close ties of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement to Orban�...Read more

Nobody wants to think about it, but another pandemic is inevitable. We don’t know when, but it is coming, and could well kill millions when it arrives.

Pandemics are existential threats to society and our way of life. In the past 108 years, novel viruses with pandemic potential have arisen at least 10 times, five of these in the last 16 years...Read more

To speak of rhetoric today is to speak of a force that shapes our politics and our identities. The main argument is that the American experiment relies on words, not just to persuade, but also to build public life and connect citizens.

This is not the first time the nation has faced a rhetorical crisis. Previous eras, such as the McCarthy ...Read more

When an active shooter threat disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the president and members of his Cabinet were evacuated swiftly and efficiently. The threat ended with a shooter apprehended and a Truth Social post. Then President Donald Trump returned to the podium, bypassing the persistence of gun violence in this country to ...Read more

The Spirit Airlines saga highlights the folly of government industrial policy — whether promoted by Democrats or the current president.

Last week, President Donald Trump floated a $500 million bailout for the low-cost carrier, which has twice filed for bankruptcy and is now struggling because of soaring fuel costs triggered by the Iran war. ...Read more

More than 158 million Americans cast a ballot in the 2024 election, and nearly one in three did so by mail.

Nothing about that should be controversial because voting by mail is safe, secure and deeply rooted in American history. Generations of voters have relied on absentee and mail-in ballots to make their voices heard — from Union soldiers ...Read more

For the fifth time, the Senate Democrats last week tried to put constitutionally protected guardrails on President Donald Trump and his authority over the war in Iran. For the fifth time, Republican senators blocked them.

The actions and statements of the president and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should snap Republican senators back to ...Read more

Butler, Pennsylvania, was a wake-up call.

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting Saturday night was what happens when leaders hit the snooze button.

Our country can’t afford to sleep in any longer.

Pols on the left labeled President Donald Trump a threat to democracy in the runup to the 2024 election, despite the July ...Read more

Hypocritical Democrats and their sycophants in the media are rushing to evade blame for inciting political violence in the country including the latest assassination attempt of President Donald Trump.

White House officials yesterday called out three Massachusetts lawmakers – Ayanna Pressley, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey – for leading the ...Read more

Maybe you don’t like the war with Iran. Perhaps widespread Medicaid fraud has you questioning our massive federal government’s ability to manage sprawling budgets. Or perhaps, like many folks in blue cities that faced ICE and Border Patrol surges in Trump’s second term, you don’t want your tax dollars underwriting these actions.

This ...Read more

Recalling the “Candid Camera” of yore, we can still remember the reactions from folks who had no idea they were being filmed.

Allen Funt’s prescient reality TV show may be long gone from the airwaves, but in its place is a wave of always-on technology that can make anyone a star, even if they don’t want to be.

The latest example is ...Read more

Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew, shot to death on Saturday by a suspect while he was in custody, should be alive today.

The alleged shooter, 26-year-old Alphanso Talley, was ordered detained Monday by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Luciano Panici. Talley is accused of murder and attempted murder, among numerous other charges, in the ...Read more

I need a friend.

Never thought I’d have to say that. But my longtime pals, baby boomers all, are thinning out. Several friendships have been lost through death as we edge closer to the threshold of 77 years, the average life expectancy of American men. (For women, it’s 81.)

Other friendships have broken down because of illness, as in the ...Read more

Last week Yale University took the first step on the road to recovery: It admitted it had a problem. That problem is a lack of trust — and the damage that Yale and other top schools have done isn’t to themselves, it is to the entire system of U.S. higher education.

America’s elite universities, which produce world-class research and ...Read more