Property tax relief has become one of the few ideas capable of uniting politicians who otherwise agree on almost nothing. Across the Midwest, officials are advancing proposals to ease the burden.

In Michigan, a leading Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, is calling for a property tax freeze for seniors. Ditto in Ohio, where Gov. Mike ...Read more

It was 20 years ago this month when we started writing about how the toxic fallout from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening and killing people. Then the politicians were named Bloomberg, Pataki and Bush. The politicians’ names have changed, but not the importance of getting to...Read more

It was 20 years ago this month when we started writing about how the toxic fallout from the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center by Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists was sickening and killing people. Then the politicians were named Bloomberg, Pataki and Bush. The politicians’ names have changed, but not the importance of getting to...Read more

The U.S. attorney general is often called the people’s lawyer because he or she serves the public interest by guarding the legal rights of taxpayers, residents, victims of crimes, and the environment.

But the attorney general is not supposed to be the White House consigliere, abusing the rule of law, carrying out political vendettas, and ...Read more

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s sudden death sparked vicious vitriol from liberals and conspiracy theories from conservatives as Democrats looked with renewed hope at capturing the South Carolina seat in November.

Some left wing pundits celebrated Graham’s death with hate-filled posts on social media, calling him a toady for President ...Read more

On July 9, the Trump administration delivered a gift to Cadiz Inc., a politically well-connected firm that has been trying for decades to win approval for a scheme to pump water out of the Mojave Desert and market it to water agencies across the Southland.

The administration approved the company's application to convert an abandoned 220-mile ...Read more

Almost two decades ago, when trillions of dollars in private housing debt proved unsustainable, governments had to step in to prevent the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression from eclipsing it. But now governments have their own debt problems, and if they don’t get them under control soon, there will be nobody to step in next time...Read more

As yet another heat dome settles over part of the U.S., a depressingly predictable news cycle is unfolding. This week, the headlines will warn of dangerously high temperatures; next week, they’ll chronicle the human toll.

Even more depressing: That won’t capture the full force of the heat’s devastation. The deaths reported will surely be ...Read more

The legendary Bayeux Tapestry detailing William of Normandy’s 1066 conquest of England was embroidered, most likely by nuns, in England about 1,000 years ago. For centuries, one of the world’s most incredible Medieval works of art has resided in France.

But what’s a millennium between friends (or frenemies, depending on your point of view...Read more

An explosive lawsuit filed by San Diego County last month alleges that sushi chefs throughout California are badly exploited, making subminimum wages while routinely working up to 70 hours per week, with no paid sick days or other protections. Such worker exploitation can be hiding in plain sight and has been widely documented in many other ...Read more

They were Mexican immigrants, both named Lorenzo.

They came to this country without papers as teenagers. Lack of legal status didn't stop them from building beautiful lives — a wife, a home, a loving dog. A blue-collar job that paid the bills, weekend carne asadas with friends and family, children who followed their father's example of hard ...Read more

Behold the sheer hypocrisy of recent statements by Marco Rubio concerning two of the world’s most important waterways, the Strait of Hormuz and the South China Sea.

In his dual role as national security adviser and secretary of state, he told reporters asking about the fraught standoff in the strait that “No country is allowed to charge ...Read more

No morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. In June, the journal Nature declared that coffee is “critically threatened by climate change” and described scientists racing to save your espresso from “extinction.” The New York Times blames sky-high coffee prices on climate-driven supply crunches in Brazil and Vietnam. And your olive oil? ...Read more

Minnesota’s medical centers and research laboratories do more than heal patients and push forward science’s frontiers. They also power the state’s economy.

In 2025 alone, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded $725 million in grants and contracts to Minnesota institutions, dollars that supported 7,735 jobs and generated $1.79 ...Read more

Some images stay with us long after they stop being news.

Mothers weeping for their children. Men of all ages clawing through concrete with their bare hands. Neighbors embracing strangers. People handing out water, carrying the wounded, offering a bed to someone who lost everything in a matter of seconds.

Earthquakes don’t just test a city�...Read more

When Leslie Moreno-Roacho’s son Zaiden became the first child in New Mexico to receive a state-funded Baby Bond, she told a local television reporter the deposit was “a ticket to opportunities. The opportunities I never had.”

On July 4, millions of American families were handed the same kind of ticket. Most had no idea how to use it.

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More than 3,800 people have died in Venezuela’s June 24 double earthquake, with 16,700 injured, according to current government reports. A medical crisis has emerged for thousands of survivors, and 17,800 are homeless.

There are heart-wrenching reports of people trying to dig survivors out of the rubble with their hands, with dozens of ...Read more

The threat of financial penalties has states scrambling to clean up their food stamp programs. For this, the White House deserves applause.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act features a number of worthwhile reforms, including a provision that imposes penalties on states that tolerate fraud in U.S. Department of Agriculture’...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is abusing a provision of an old law to detain and try to deport people that the Trump administration doesn’t like. It’s wrong and it’s likely unconstitutional.

Passed by a Republican Congress over the veto of Harry Truman, the Red Scare-era Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 says: “An alien whose...Read more