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Commentary: How Democrats can repair the broken Supreme Court
It’s no secret that the Supreme Court has become an extension of our partisan politics over the past decade. The decisions handed down in the 2026 session prove just how broken the court has become and how unrepresentative it is of the views of the American people. Reactions show how little confidence the public has in its fairness.
Future ...Read more
Commentary: Just like in the film 'The Dink,' pickleball was the best medicine for my husband
If you aren’t among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest growing sport in America, watch “The Dink” on Apple TV to get a glimpse of what you’re missing.
Jake Johnson plays Dusty, a former tennis prodigy whose career was thwarted early when he broke his wrist during a match with the for-real tennis star Andy Roddick. Now he ...Read more
Commentary: The Saudi Arabia-Pakistan-Turkey deal provides the US with an opportunity
Every U.S. president over the last 20 years has tried to move the United States out of the Middle East, an area so steeped in bad history and poor policy that one wonders why Washington bothers to be involved in the region at all. Barack Obama campaigned on ending the George W. Bush-era war in Iraq, only to direct a surge of 50,000 U.S. troops ...Read more
Commentary: Ukraine has always been here -- and always will be
Many historians and security experts agree that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which continues to reshape the world, did not begin on Feb. 24, 2022. It began much earlier, on July 12, 2021, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin published his essay “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” arguing that Russians and ...Read more
Ronald Brownstein: Democrats are about to test the left's big theory
Democratic voters are setting up a high-stakes, real-world messaging test in the states most important to their hopes of recapturing the presidency.
The most direct path back to the White House for Democrats in 2028 is to retake Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the three states that President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024 dislodged from ...Read more
Andreas Kluth: The US ammo crunch is a global disaster
It appears that President Donald Trump is livid at Pete Hegseth. Not long ago the president still cooed that his macho secretary of defense “loves war,” including the one Trump launched in Iran. Now that war is turning out to be unwinnable and seemingly unendable. So Trump, venting his frustration at Camp David, wanted to know why Hegseth ...Read more
Mark Gongloff: Trump is aiding a golden age for renewable energy
Given America’s political environment, you would be forgiven for thinking the country has slipped into a dark age of energy recidivism; burning oil, gas and coal left and right; and tossing wind and solar farms on the scrap heap.
In reality, this is looking a lot like a golden age for renewable energy in the U.S., not just in spite of the ...Read more
Commentary: This is the wrong way to handle daylight saving time
Last month, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 with bipartisan support, as evidenced by a 308-117 vote. It will now move to the Senate for consideration. President Donald Trump has stated he will sign it into law if it reaches his desk.
This is the first time that the House has managed to pass a bill making daylight saving...Read more
Michael Hiltzik: The Trump administration's investments in corporate stocks raise fears of 'crony capitalism'
It was about one year ago that the Trump administration announced a truly eye-opening transaction: In return for an $8.9 billion investment in the chipmaker already authorized under the Biden-era CHIPS Act, the government would take a roughly 10% stake in Intel shares — making the government Intel's largest shareholder.
Was this a good deal?...Read more
Anita Chabria: Protecting the blue wall of silence is not justice in LAPD whistleblower case
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Officer Daniel Flores may have broken the law when he secretly recorded his colleagues making ugly, unacceptable comments that were variously racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise gross and unprofessional at best.
So L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is right to take this, or any, violation ...Read more
Commentary: The only communist threat is coming from inside the White House
To listen to representatives of the U.S. government lately, you’d think the United States is at imminent risk of a communist takeover. “Communism is the single greatest threat to our country and its history,” President Donald Trump said in a recent speech outside Atlanta.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has likened the midterms to a battle ...Read more
Editorial: Trump's antipathy to wind energy is lose-lose-lose
President Donald Trump’s weird hatred of offshore wind energy is costing a lot as Uncle Sam has to pay off the companies which had invested in the canceled projects.
For the fifth time now, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money, not for building something, but in fact for not building it. The German ...Read more
Editorial: Climate migration could be a big boost for Chicago
Cincinnati is known for its chili, ice cream and devoted sports fans. But these days, the Queen City is banking on other assets to secure its future, and we think Chicago should be paying attention.
Cincinnati sits on the banks of the Ohio River, which (along with an underground aquifer) provides it with ample fresh water. Its location in the ...Read more
Lisa Jarvis: Trump's vaccine order puts parents in a bind
President Donald Trump’s proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever actually implemented or not, are yet another affront to public health in the U.S.
No new evidence is being offered to justify the proposed overhaul, which arrived via executive order on Monday and calls for cutting back the number of vaccines ...Read more
Commentary: We will all grow old someday
America is debating budgets, taxes, deficits, and spending priorities. Those discussions are necessary. But amid the political arguments, we cannot lose sight of a simple truth: every budget reflects our values.
Nearly every American hopes to grow old. Yet growing old with dignity has become increasingly difficult for many seniors living on ...Read more
Commentary: How Americans can defend their right to vote
The numbers are alarming. More than half a million mail ballots cast in the 2024 elections were rejected and never counted. Not because they were illegitimate, but because voters often made easily avoidable mistakes.
They forgot to sign and date the envelope or get a witness to sign. Or their signature was out of date. Or they simply used the ...Read more
Commentary: Artificial intelligence can imitate us, but it cannot truly design or invent
Every generation believes its technologies are about to destabilize the world.
The printing press initially was accused of eroding authority and unleashing uncontrollable voices. Railways were said to compress space unnaturally, disturbing body and mind. The telephone threatened the centrality of the public square; television, the vitality of ...Read more
Commentary: Not all change is good -- Medicaid, Medicare shifts are everyone's problem
Like 155 million other Americans, I get my health insurance coverage through my employer. The millions like me who are not on Medicaid or Medicare may not be closely tracking the massive changes coming to public insurance programs because of H.R.1 (also known as President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”).
But over the next ...Read more
Editorial: Democratic socialist -- 'Anti-Zionist' isn't antisemitic. Jewish voters know better
To hear candidate Oliver Larkin define himself as “anti-Zionist” is jarring — and that’s an understatement — as he runs in a Democratic primary to represent a South Florida congressional district that’s roughly 25% Jewish, one of the largest concentrations of Jewish voters in the country.
Larkin is part of a growing faction of the ...Read more
Anita Chabria: 'Surveillance pricing' is legal gouging. California legislators don't seem to care
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Say you want a new pair of running shoes, but you just can’t make up your mind. So you spend a solid week checking them out online, coming back to one pair on a particular site again and again.
When you’re finally ready to check out, you notice something upsetting — the price you saw on day one is now 20% higher. ...Read more




















































