The numbers look grim for President Joe Biden and his party. Donald Trump, despite his criminal convictions, still leads the 2024 race by about a percentage point nationally and by significant margins in almost every battleground state. Biden’s approval rating has been underwater since 2021 and hasn’t topped 40% in nine months. Democratic ...Read more

The Supreme Court did the right thing Thursday by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions.

Of course, this wasn’t the Court protecting access to abortion, which it gutted by overturning Roe vs. Wade two years ago and taking away the constitutional right to ...Read more

In a decision that may mark the low point for blinkered statutory interpretation in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, the conservative majority has concluded that gun regulators violated the law when they decided that bump stocks turn a semiautomatic rifle into an illegal machine gun.

If you want to know why people hate lawyers, just look ...Read more

I was in France during the recent European Union elections and witnessed the shock of many as Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally nearly doubled its support from five years ago. National Rally secured 31.5% of the vote, more than twice that of French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance coalition. Though it was most pronounced in ...Read more

Ethics reform at the Supreme Court is not a partisan issue. Nor is it a cynical attempt to shame or bully the court. It’s true that the justices most in the news for ethical lapses — Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — are staunch conservatives. But liberal justices have had their issues, too.

Pointing this out isn’t “both-sidesing” ...Read more

Whether you suffer from mild depression or severe schizophrenia, it's a common fear that one moment of distress might undo all the work you've done to present a different face to the world.

Therapy and medication can't stop you from caring what other people think, especially those you love. So living with mental illness means accepting the ...Read more

The same Supreme Court that overruled Roe v. Wade two years ago on Thursday followed well-established constitutional principles to dismiss a lawsuit that sought to restrict the availability of mifepristone, a drug used to medically induce abortions. The bottom line is that the decision upholds the Food and Drug Administration’s rules for ...Read more

I finally have come to grips with the fact that my son has sex. He’s 30-something and recently became the father of an adorable baby girl, Ada Irene. This is all now serious business in the cycle of life.

When your child becomes a parent, it’s a tectonic shift. There’s no turning back for my son or me. He’s another human being’s ...Read more

Gardi Sugdub is a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast that is jammed from end to end with housing for about 1,300 members of the indigenous Guna people. The island is sinking beneath rising waters as the planet warms. So Panama has built an inland housing development for the entire population. They’ll move into their pristine new homes ...Read more

In a Fox News interview last week, Donald Trump advised that the best way to avoid getting addicted to alcohol or drugs is to not start using them.

Now, the only time I didn’t vote for a Democrat, it was to vote for Bernie Sanders. So it pains me to say this, but — ugh — Trump is right.

The former president said he had watched incredibly...Read more

I have to admit, the case of Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt. Jeffrey Little has me scratching my head.

Little is the veteran lifeguard who filed a religious discrimination, harassment and retaliation lawsuit last month against the county Fire Department, which includes lifeguards. Little alleges that he was forced to work under a version of ...Read more

Since day one of his administration, the fossil fuel industry and its right-wing allies have disingenuously blamed President Joe Biden for increases in fuel prices, falsely claiming the administration was holding back fossil fuel production.

Now, evidence is mounting that Big Oil may have conspired behind the scenes to sock American consumers ...Read more

Mark Robinson, the North Carolina Republican candidate for governor, epitomizes the modern-day MAGA leader. Radicalized online, he transitioned his social media profile into a political one and captured support from the far right by embracing anger, fear-mongering and demeaning people with whom he disagrees.

But while this approach may have ...Read more

Imagine you are completing the annual training module for preventing sexual harassment at work.

How would you answer the following questions?

You, a top executive, find yourself attracted to a summer intern. Is it OK to ask her for a date?

Is it appropriate to offer a contract employee an extravagant gift — a horse, for example — in ...Read more

Let me stipulate: I disapprove of pseudo-journalistic stings that surreptitiously record people, often public figures, in a gotcha moment. It's unethical whether the trapper is the far-right Project Veritas or the left-leaning "advocacy journalist" who ensnared Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and his wife, Martha-Ann, just last week.

And yet…. ...Read more

Hunter Biden finds himself in a predicament of his own making. The question President Joe Biden might ask is why his son has allowed his legal travails to drag on to the point that they’ve become a political liability for his father.

A Delaware jury this week convicted the younger Biden on three felony firearms charges related to lying on a ...Read more

You don’t need to be a scientist to understand the harms of climate change. All you need is an insurance policy. And finding affordable insurance is getting harder in the places hit hardest by climate change.

As climate change increases the intensity and severity of extreme weather, the costs, both financially and in terms of human lives, are...Read more

Speaking freely at a glitzy Supreme Court Historical Society event earlier this month, Justice Samuel Alito pointed out that there are “fundamental things that really can’t be compromised” in society, and speculated that “one side or the other is going to win.” The comments were recorded by a documentarian who had attended the events ...Read more

Should you be so lucky as to have a publisher for your memoir, you’ll likely be pushed to make it as revealing as possible. Personal confessions — of, say, past drug use — can help a book become a bestseller, especially if your narrative is a redemptive one of healing and recovery.

But beware of being hung on your own petard.

That’s ...Read more

While Joe Biden and the media are fixated on putting “convicted felon” Donald Trump behind bars, eight suspected ISIS terrorists slipped across the southern border illegally behind Biden’s back.

The Democratic president’s immigration ineptitude – which until now has involved thousands of migrants daily swarming across the border – ...Read more