Amid the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened more than 27,000 people in 47 states, causing more than 800 hospitalizations and two untimely deaths, many people are blaming the federal government for letting its guard down on the monitoring of food-born illnesses.

That criticism is warranted: Under President Donald Trump, funding for the ...Read more

History tells us that Republicans have an uphill climb this November to keep control of the House — and perhaps the Senate. President Donald Trump isn’t doing them a favor with his latest tariff threats against Canada, this country’s second-largest trading partner.

After talks between the United States and its northern neighbor broke down...Read more

Memo to President Donald Trump: Canada is our friend.

A round of recent trade talks, necessitated in the first place by a series of American tariffs on our neighbor to the north early in Trump’s second term, collapsed late last week and now the U.S. is embroiled in the most foolish of trade wars with Canada. The Trump administration reacted ...Read more

Democrats have quickly built a big tent, that’s for sure.

After last week’s stunning primary results, their ticket for November is led by outspoken Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon for Senate and conventionally moderate David Jolly for governor.

To some, it seems contradictory. Modern Florida has never seen a statewide ticket so diverse ...Read more

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is not lazy, I'll give him that.

During his unsuccessful run for governor this year, you may recall that the MAGA devotee found time to seize more than 650,000 ballots from the Proposition 50 redistricting race, claiming he suspected there were tens of thousands more votes cast than there should have been �...Read more

As if U.S. officials didn’t have enough on their plate these days, they can now add a trade war with Canada to the mix — and with it, one more dent to a relationship that historically is one of the closest the United States has with another country. President Donald Trump has done the impossible by turning America’s pleasant neighbor up ...Read more

Technology changes what we value, often in ways we don’t see coming.

This may be one of the most important economic consequences of the artificial-intelligence revolution.

The internet made information abundant. Social media made it possible to connect with almost anyone. AI is now making digital experiences cheaper, faster and easier to ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order on vaccines, signed August 10, is the latest in his administration’s endless attacks on public health. It recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, be separated into three individual shots. There is no scientific evidence or public health data to support this decision. Trump has ...Read more

Rarely have there been two better neighbors than the United States and Canada.

We like each other. We share the world’s longest unfortified border. We’re partners in NORAD, the joint defense against Russian, Chinese and North Korean ICBMs.

The U.S. and Canada automakers are interdependent. Canada has been our No. 2 export market, worth $...Read more

The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way home. I feel some sympathy for its long-suffering crew, especially the young sailor who reportedly jumped over the side into the sea.

What kind of despair does it take to induce a mariner to step off the deck of his ship and plunge into the ocean?

I don’t know.

But I do know that in 1972 a sailor made ...Read more

America's national debt climbed above $40 trillion for the first time on Thursday, Aug. 20, an obligation that is impossible to pay off and one that should be dominating the political conversation this season.

Let's put $40 trillion into perspective. If the debt were called today, it would require $116,800 to $119,907 from every man, woman and ...Read more

British historian Paul Johnson once noted that those in Mahatma Gandhi’s entourage used to quip that “it costs a lot of money to keep Gandhi in poverty.” It will likewise cost a lot of money to keep all of the young democratic socialists rolling in “free stuff.”

With that in mind, Adam N. Michel of the Cato Institute has provided a ...Read more

If there’s ever a reason to protect America’s luscious forests from the threats that humans can present, simply look at the devastation in Spokane. Three fires this summer destroyed more than 800 structures and displaced thousands of residents. One was caused by arson and officials say the others also were likely human-caused.

The Trump ...Read more

Good going by ABC for suing the Federal Communications Commission and Chair Brendan Carr over his effort to require eight local ABC-owned broadcast stations (including New York, L.A. and Chicago) to submit to license renewals years ahead of schedule, announced just a day after President Donald Trump all but ordered Carr to do so as he raged ...Read more

Parents often worry that obsessive video game playing will keep their sons from finding productive careers. The Federal Aviation Administration has a different perspective.

The FAA has long struggled to recruit air traffic controllers. At the end of 2025, the FAA had a bit more than 13,000 controllers on the payroll. That was a decrease of 6 ...Read more

The Trump administration’s so-called war on fraud is, well, a bit of a fraud.

The White House earlier this year launched a task force to eliminate fraud, helmed by Vice President JD Vance. The administration even gave those efforts their own government website — “The Fraud Tracker,” where you can find data about federal agencies that ...Read more

The tumultuous 2026 primary season has made at least one thing clear: Democratic centrists are pursuing a losing strategy in their struggle with the left. Until the moderates change course, they will remain on the defensive.

Almost without exception, centrist Democrats in competitive primaries this year have chosen to challenge only the ...Read more

A transfer of wealth from young to old, an education system that ill-equips young people for today’s economy and technology platforms engineered to polarize us have produced a generation of Americans who no longer believe in America. According to Gallup, 75% of baby boomers feel very or extremely proud to be an American, compared with just 41%...Read more

The national debt now exceeds $40 trillion. That equals roughly $117,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States.

The number is shocking, but the direction should worry us even more. Washington no longer borrows only during wars, recessions or national emergencies. The federal government now runs huge structural deficits every year....Read more

We’re near the end of the 2026 primary election season and the state of American democracy is looking — sigh of relief — better than expected.

As the Trump administration has trampled on the rule of law, tried to undermine elections and pursued a self-enriching agenda, Americans are pushing back and demanding change — from both parties....Read more