LOS ANGELES — Javier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before.

It was June 2025, and they were bragging about the raids in the Los Angeles area that swept up hundreds of immigrants — and a few U.S. citizens, like Ramirez. The unfamiliar word ...Read more

This week the Michigan Chronicle, the oldest Black newspaper in the state, endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens for the U.S. Senate ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary. I was struck by two things about the 1,200-word endorsement editorial.

First, Stevens is a highly accomplished elected official who would make a fine senator. In full disclosure, I'm ...Read more

It’s hardly been lost on America’s political class that even as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani leads a resurgent local and national left, the famously progressive city of San Francisco, under Mayor Daniel Lurie, appears to be moving decisively in the other direction.

Yet despite their vast ideological differences, Mamdani and Lurie ...Read more

After Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" was released in theaters, Elon Musk declared he would use Grok to create a more “historically accurate” version of the ancient epic poem.

The uproar over the film’s supposedly woke casting has been loud and sustained, but the people most upset have ignored a pretty significant detail: "The ...Read more

Who doesn’t love a good wish list? Come dream with us right here.

First step, we abolish capitalism. Without that most ultimate of evils? No more bills. No more debt. We’re all carefree now.

That’s the basic premise of the Democratic Socialists of America’s vision. If you haven’t looked at the platform lately, we offer you the ...Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025, I knew my life would become more complicated.

I am among the estimated 14 million Americans under age 65 who are considered immunocompromised; an additional 58 million over age 65 have immune systems that are naturally ...Read more

I recently joined the board of my Manhattan co-op, and I love it. One of my duties is reviewing applications for apartments, which — as both a prospective neighbor and a retirement economist — has been a revelation.

It turns out, based on not only my limited sample but also more rigorous and representative surveys, a surprising number of ...Read more

Much like the rest of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, the latest outbreak of hostilities has produced nothing but death, destruction, and disorder. The current flow of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz makes the Schuylkill Expressway look fast, Tehran retains its capacity to terrorize its neighbors with cheap drones, and more ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The defendant was in an undisclosed jail.

The judge was in Department 213 of the Hollywood courthouse, where he could see the defendant on a video feed.

"All right, listen," said Judge Ronald Kaye, who runs one of four mental health courts in the building. "So a couple of weeks ago, I made this ruling to get you out of the jail...Read more

It’s hard to hate on Canada. It’s like cursing a cotton ball, or raging about tapioca.

The friendliest of neighbors, the country has fought alongside the U.S. in conflicts going back to World War I, purchased many trillions of dollars worth of American goods and blessed this country with, among other gifts, ice hockey, Drake, Joni Mitchell ...Read more

For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, "The Apprentice" and then "The Celebrity Apprentice." The shows stopped, but Trump as president is still creating his own reality.

When so many Americans say they've tuned him out — like a bad TV episode — the metaphor is an apt one. ...Read more

There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

A real-life example of this stratagem unfolded Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., convened a committee hearing aimed at trapping Dr. Anthony Fauci into...Read more

It’s terrible what’s going on with Haitians and Syrians who have been living under a special designation known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

They’ve literally been in panic mode since last month’s U.S. Supreme Court 6-3 ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip away their ability to legally work and be ...Read more

The Trump administration on Monday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution and allow the implementation of an executive order that would severely restrict voting by mail nationwide. Even high school civics students know elections are the dominion of the states, but President Donald Trump naturally believes that power should ...Read more

The Republican desire to turn the clock back to some (largely mythical) halcyon period of yore is well-known. President Donald Trump often has expressed his admiration for the 1890s in America, an era of high tariffs. The conservative assault on women's reproductive rights harks back to the time before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in ...Read more

The Trump administration recently said it wants to “clean up” the No Surprises Act, the law that ended surprise billing for medical emergencies but opened up the healthcare system to exploitation. Now, a law that does a lot of good for individual patients could wind up raising costs for everyone.

To understand what went so wrong, ...Read more

Nearly half of all American workers today are college-educated adults, with many holding jobs for which their degrees are no longer enough to help them to remain effective or sometimes even employable. Now, artificial intelligence is accelerating the issues, technological shifts and investor pressures that white-collar work has faced for decades...Read more

“The reason Congress needs to act,” Sen. Ted Cruz told us Monday, “is that Congress screwed this up in the first place.”

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was talking about college sports. More specifically, he was railing against the infusion of massive amounts of money into one sector of...Read more

The U.S. Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the series. The surge is being interpreted as the first real evidence of an AI-driven entrepreneurial ...Read more