BOSTON – U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley needs to come clean on her sudden wealth and husband’s business dealings and potential conflicts – answering tough questions directly instead of her usual dodging, softball interviews and canned social media posts.

Take a page out of your nemesis, President Donald Trump’s playbook, and stand there and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon leave office without gaining the support of fellow Californians for his most ambitious climate project: the banning of new gas-burning car sales by 2035.

Newsom issued an executive order in 2020 taking new fossil-fueled passenger vehicles off the California market nine years from now.

But ...Read more

If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter how fast technology progresses, humans will do all they can to slow it down.

Restrictions on data centers, which are almost certainly coming in other states as well, illustrate what we ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has spent millions of dollars to combat sex trafficking, and yet it can still be found in every city and town, hiding in plain sight.

Whether it's online, on places such as Figueroa Street in L.A. or Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, or even in the hotel rooms where our World Cup guests stayed, there are ...Read more

A veteran’s PTSD doesn’t disappear when they enter prison. Traumatic brain injuries don’t cure themselves. Addiction doesn't vanish behind bars. Yet many of the systems designed to help veterans manage those conditions stop at the prison gate.

When veterans are incarcerated, they often lose access to VA healthcare, struggle to use ...Read more

Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration sent Americans trying to navigate the cyclospora outbreak into a tailspin. A day after Taylor Farms announced a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce in 27 states — generating one set of alarming headlines — the FDA said that a test linking the company’s lettuce to the parasite had been ...Read more

Given the difficulty of identifying the most egregious assertions from President Donald Trump's latest outbursts of pique and petulance, it's unsurprising that perhaps his weirdest and most despicable diatribe has gone under the radar.

It came on July 15, at a "Defense and Innovation Summit" in Pennsylvania hosted by Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa. ...Read more

With the U.S. and Iran trading attacks and skirmishing over who controls the Strait of Hormuz, their 60-day ceasefire lies in tatters. Both would be wiser to refrain from further escalation and remember why they need that final agreement.

The recent bout of violence flared up when Iranian forces struck several commercial vessels heeding U.S. ...Read more

Back in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, like everyone else, I knew that we were living through an extraordinary moment in history. It felt like our world had been turned upside down, and it was hard to imagine what would come next.

In the midst of that uncertainty, a friend and I began wondering: What if young people across Chicago could ...Read more

When Keir Starmer, the Labour Party’s top politician, took the reins of 10 Downing Street in July 2024 after a resounding election victory over the Conservative Party, there was a sense that Britain was finally leaving behind its dysfunctional politics and economic stagnation. Starmer, a lawyer who used to be Britain’s top prosecutor, was ...Read more

“The Odyssey” is on its own odyssey.

The epic poem from ancient Greece about the mythical Ithacan King Odysseus’ ordeal getting home after the Trojan War wandered into America’s culture wars after some prominent conservatives concluded that Christopher Nolan’s film version, which premiered last week, was “woke” because of the ...Read more

Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain?

Summer now comes with a checklist. What’s the temperature? What’s the heat index? Is there a thunderstorm coming? What’s the air quality index? Is wildfire smoke drifting in from Canada? Should the kids bring swimsuits or stay inside? Will tonight�...Read more

President Donald Trump recently justified renewed military action against Iran by saying Tehran “did not obey what they’re supposed to obey” under a memorandum of understanding intended to halt the fighting. Whether one believes Iran violated that agreement or not, one word deserves closer examination: obey.

In international affairs, ...Read more

Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final on Sunday wasn’t the most entertaining match but still served as the culmination of a monthlong celebration that spanned the North American continent. From Vancouver to Miami, Los Angeles to Mexico City, the three host nations collaborated to produce an experience that was as ...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity which implied that many states allow those in the country illegally to vote. He called the system “dishonest” and even singled out Nevada.

Democrats responded that the president was trying to undermine faith in the upcoming ...Read more

At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada repeatedly emphasized that his nation is undertaking a massive buildup in defense spending. “Canada is on a clear path to meet NATO’s target of investing 5% of gross domestic product in defense by 2035,” he indicated in a post-summit statement...Read more

In the push to regulate artificial intelligence, a dangerous idea is gaining ground in Washington: handing the government ownership stakes in the biggest AI companies. Both parties see immediate dollar signs. Neither is thinking longer-term. Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.

It’s not surprising that Vermont’s socialist senator wants to ...Read more

Not long ago, a student at my school forgot to submit a homework assignment. Before the school day even began, my colleague received an email from the parent — to ask if they could upload the assignment on the student’s behalf. The student was 17 years old.

We are in the midst of a parenting and educational crisis. Students are increasingly...Read more

For years, Silicon Valley executives warned artificial intelligence would transform society, replace jobs and perhaps pose existential risks. They built products grounded in what should be considered the largest copyright infringement of human history. They fired their own coders who helped build their AI while warning more firings were to come ...Read more

While we’re waiting around for cold fusion, space mirrors, matrioshka brains or whatever other complicated world-savers the tech wizards are cooking up these days to address soaring energy demand, a simple, effective solution is already available. It would create trillions of dollars in economic value and millions of jobs while also ...Read more