Americans like to spend money, and they’re good at it. But they also feel kind of bad about it.

According to a survey from Ally Bank, three-quarters of Americans feel guilty when they spend money on something that brings them joy rather than putting it toward a long-term financial goal. I can confirm this feeling, especially after seeing my ...Read more

I’ve long been intrigued by the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower and believe they each offer important and illuminating examples of the kind of statesmanship the United States urgently needs.

Roosevelt was a liberal Democrat and Eisenhower a conservative Republican. Their families, educations, personalities, ...Read more

You’re sued over a debt you don’t recognize. Or you’re facing eviction from the apartment where you raised your kids. The other side has a lawyer. You don’t.

For millions of Californians each year, this is how our civil justice system works.

In Los Angeles debt-collection cases, for example, just 2% of people being sued are represented...Read more

On Aug. 31, the great writer Wendell Berry died “suddenly and peacefully” at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he had lived with his beloved wife, Tanya Berry, for more than six decades.

He was the author of more than 50 books of essays, poetry and fiction, all of which championed an agrarian economy built on a sense of place and a ...Read more

In the split second before the immigration agent tackled him, Target employee Jonathan Aguilar Garcia darted through the entrance to his suburban Minneapolis store. He wrongly assumed he’d be safe in his own workplace.

The agent pinned Aguilar Garcia to the floor with a knee on his neck before shoving him and another employee into an unmarked...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration and his fearfully compliant congressional majority treat our public seas like a treasure chest to be looted. On election day this November, that record should weigh on the minds of voters who care about the economy and our blue world.

Trump’s personal hatred of offshore wind power (since Scotland ...Read more

How much does it cost to write your own law in California? About $500,000.

That’s what Forest Lawn and Mt. Sinai cemeteries have spent on lobbyists since 2025 to kill one road safety project, on one street, in Los Angeles. This week, in the final hours of the legislative session, Sacramento gave them their money’s worth.

Here’s what the ...Read more

In a genuinely surprising decision, the Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s congressionally unauthorized ballroom construction project. Over a dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, who was joined by the court’s three liberals, the court’s five conservatives said that the National Trust for Historic ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Business is better than ever for Karla Navarrete. And she's not happy about it at all.

She's an immigration attorney who spends six days a week telling people that they have little chance of staying in Donald Trump's America.

"It's become a deportation mill, and my clients have been placed on speeding rockets," Navarrete, the ...Read more

The headlines this week wrote themselves: Meta, humbled at last, agrees to pay up to $17.1 billion and accept the strictest limits ever imposed on teenage social media use. A combined two-hour daily cap across Instagram and Facebook. A midnight-to-6 a.m. blackout. Age assurance. Attorneys general from 47 states, the District of Columbia, and ...Read more

The word seems to be out among federal immigration agents: Shoot a civilian, give an account contradicted by the evidence and retreat to a friendly red state, and you may escape prosecution.

That is what appears to be happening with Minnesota’s attempted prosecution of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Christian Castro. Castro faces ...Read more

On Monday, West Chicago announced the city was reviewing its Flock camera system after discovering an officer may have been using it for “an unauthorized purpose.” Ditto Itasca, where an officer accused of misusing Flock is now out of a job.

Former Holiday Hills police Chief and Prairie Grove Officer William Copp allegedly used license ...Read more

The national debt isn’t just a big number. It’s a major anchor on economic growth.

On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that government bond yields are increasing throughout the globe. As these bond yields rise, government debt becomes more expensive. The yield on Japan’s 10-year bond hit 3 percent on Tuesday. That was a three-...Read more

If an industry’s track record included a tourist’s death, multiple hospitalizations, runaway animals crashing into traffic, damaged vehicles and workers collapsing and dying on the job, most people would question whether it should continue operating at all.

Yet horse-drawn carriage rides remain common in cities and tourist destinations ...Read more

If you’ve gone to the grocery store lately, you may have found yourself forced to have an uncomfortable conversation with your kids. Tabloid magazines lining checkout aisles across Chicagoland tend to be at eye-level for youngsters. So odds are they’ve come across the Lindsay Clancy story.

Clancy is the mother at the center of a trial that ...Read more

In August, we reached another grim milestone in the United States: Two deaths from measles were confirmed in Pennsylvania. These losses are a painful reminder that measles is still deadly and that the consequences of falling vaccination rates are measured in people’s lives. For pediatricians, the lives of our patients—children and babies—...Read more

For more than three decades, California and Texas have been like tectonic plates drifting in opposite directions.

California, the ancestral land of Republicans Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has become a Democratic stronghold. It’s been 20 years since a GOP candidate won statewide office.

Texas, which bred Democratic giants such as Sam ...Read more

Virtually everyone in their mid-30s or older remembers where they were when they heard that an airplane struck the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. I was in a hotel gym in Slovakia; it took two weeks to get home.

That was the goal of the terrorists: to destroy the ability of the American people to live their lives normally.

...Read more

Between the lines of Dana Nessel's baffling remarks to a group of Jewish voters over the weekend is her acknowledgment that Abdul El-Sayed presents a threat to Jews, both in this country and in Israel.

And yet she still suggested Jewish Democrats have an obligation to vote for him.

In the angst-ridden address to the Michigan Democratic Jewish ...Read more

Serving as a juror on a high profile case is a distinctly stressful experience. When that case becomes a national media event, as in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the need to preserve the jury’s anonymity is paramount.

The jurors in the Clancy case, who remain deadlocked and will return for a sixth day of deliberations Thursday, had that ...Read more