For Democrats or, for that matter, anyone who believes in checks and balances, things are starting to look up.

President Donald Trump's days of untrammeled war-making, law-breaking and generally doing whatever he damn well pleases may finally be drawing to a close. Public opinion, history and, especially, the surging price of gasoline and ...Read more

Senator John Fetterman was “front and center” in the Washington Hilton’s ballroom during the shooting that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, according to a statement released by the senior senator from Pennsylvania.

You would imagine that in his first public statement he would discuss the welfare of the president, who ...Read more

President Donald Trump has now been involved in what appears to be an unprecedented three attempts on his life. It must be jarring for someone with so much wealth and the full protection of the United States government to think he could still come within a whisker of being shot in America.

Sadly, the attack at the White House correspondents’ ...Read more

Didn’t Florida voters outlaw gerrymandering? You sure wouldn’t know it by looking at the map Gov. Ron DeSantis released Monday of his proposed new congressional district lines.

The map is an absolute sea of red. There are four blue-leaning districts for Democrats and 24 red-leaning districts — an increase of four — for Republicans. ...Read more

Here’s a fundamental principle of diplomacy: Chances of success are diminished if one side thinks the other is comprised of crazy bastards. Especially if one side is willing to call the other “crazy bastards” in public, as President Donald Trump did in early April.

The “bastards” part is just an insult; let’s consider the “crazy�...Read more

Starvation has been a problem in communist countries. Obesity is a major problem in capitalist countries. Yet New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani believes his city needs the government propping up new grocery stores.

Mamdani, an open socialist, is struggling to balance the budget. He’s already proposed reducing public library funding. His ...Read more

Most students in the U.S. aren’t proficient in reading or math — but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their report cards. Four out of 5 parents say their children are getting B’s or higher. Test scores, meanwhile, have hit multiyear lows. According to one study, 60% of grades don’t match standardized assessments.

One might hope ...Read more

Since the start of the conflict with Iran, gasoline prices in California and across the country have increased by more than $1 a gallon, straining already tight family budgets. In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, the California oil industry has been using this moment to try to jam through its wish list, lobbying for more ...Read more

When it comes to the 2028 presidential sweepstakes, Kamala Harris may be a nonstarter.

Yes, Harris ably served as vice president of the United States, U.S. senator and California attorney general. She valiantly stepped up to the late-breaking 2024 Democratic presidential nomination when Joe Biden’s presidency faltered.

She is eminently ...Read more

When Pope Leo XIV speaks about war, his message is clear: Violence degrades human dignity, and peace must remain the goal even when it feels out of reach. When Donald Trump speaks about conflict, his clarity takes a different form: Threats must be confronted, adversaries deterred, and, at times, force becomes unavoidable.

To many observers, ...Read more

The European Union, which was born in 1993 and sired by the Maastricht Treaty, was a child of neoliberalism: the doctrine of market supremacy and government restraint that swept the world from the 1980s onward.

Globalization and the single market provided the EU with a growth engine; the single currency and the EU regulatory authorities drove ...Read more

Before the legislative session began in January, corporations, political committees and lobbyists showered the accounts of some of Florida’s most influential lawmakers with a fresh $14 million in a single day

It has been 16 years since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision flung open the door to unlimited corporate money. Its ...Read more

For motoring enthusiasts like me, station wagons are a near perfect package, combining spaciousness with sleek looks, exciting driving dynamics and decent fuel efficiency. Unfortunately my love of no-nonsense wagons (or estates as they’re called in the UK, Kombis in Germany and “breaks” in France) is no longer widely shared.

A top ...Read more

They are becoming depressingly common, these attacks on President Donald Trump’s life. This nation was born of bloodshed and has been deeply divided at times throughout its 250-year history. But after three attempts on Trump’s life in the past two years, we seem to have entered new territory.

Information trickled out Sunday about the man ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Xavier Becerra seems like the type of steady, trustworthy fellow you’d like your daughter to marry. But she’s attracted to a charming party animal.

Then the flashy dude does something really stupid and repulsive. Daughter is jarred into her senses and decides to size up the unexciting but reliable guy.

That’s how ...Read more

Just when you think the White House policy toward refugees can’t get any uglier, it sinks to new depths that should infuriate Americans of all political persuasions.

After the suspension in November of a resettlement program for Afghans who helped U.S. soldiers and civilians, the Trump administration is now trying to send up to 1,100 of such ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s latest fantastic notion is to repurpose Alcatraz Island, one of the National Park Service’s most popular historical sites, as the remote, isolated California prison it used to be.

Nothing about it makes sense.

It was costing nearly three times as much to operate as other federal prisons, which is why Attorney ...Read more

When you break a promise as clear as “No new wars,” you shouldn’t be surprised when even your most loyal supporters revolt. And that’s exactly what is happening to President Donald Trump.

One such disillusioned supporter is Tucker Carlson — who on a recent podcast with his brother Buckley admitted, in essence, “My bad.”

“You ...Read more

The Trump administration's attack on gender-affirming care for minors bears all the hallmarks of its approach to healthcare policy.

Although it purports to reflect rigorous science, it's almost entirely fact-free — indeed, replete with misinformation and disinformation. It ignores the procedures required by law for issuing major policy ...Read more

This week Tucker Carlson apologized for unintentionally "misleading" voters into supporting President Donald Trump's return to the White House. The apology came days after the president called Carlson dumb and overrated on social media. We've seen this plot before: It's a different name but the same story.

Recall the president's first term was ...Read more