Somewhat unexpectedly, the global economy has weathered the challenges of the past few years extraordinarily well. Following the pandemic, shock followed shock — Russia’s war on Ukraine, Washington’s rejection of rule-based liberal trade, then most recently the war with Iran. Any one of these might’ve led you to expect a severe economic ...Read more

Speaking near the Acropolis earlier this month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio praised the ancient Athenians who heroically repelled Persian invaders. The administration he serves is treating Ukraine’s resistance very differently.

In hopes of lowering prices before the November midterms, the White House recently struck a deal easing sanctions...Read more

Michigan’s Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, Abdul El-Sayed, is many things to many people.

He represents change, part of a new generation of outspoken leaders who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo.

He represents possibility: As the son of Egyptian immigrants, his trajectory is the American dream realized.

And he ...Read more

Martin Luther King III and his wife, Andrea Waters King, were in Georgia when they learned about the July death of Nolan Wells, who authorities in Mississippi said drowned even though no water was found in his throat, lungs or stomach.

"We were getting our daughter prepared for college when he died," Waters King said about Wells. "The news just...Read more

After the midterm elections, people will still need groceries. A parent will still weigh the cost of a prescription against the rent. A child will still enter a classroom carrying burdens no backpack should hold. Whatever the electoral map looks like, faith communities will wake to neighbors who need more than a winning party's promises.

The ...Read more

Americans have more in common than our political conversation suggests.

That is the encouraging conclusion of political scientists Stephen Ansolabehere and Brian Schaffner, writing recently in The New York Times. Their evidence comes from two decades of surveys of more than 700,000 Americans.

Asked to name the most important thing that ...Read more

An annoying, persistent myth of climate discourse is the idea that trying to stop the planet from becoming a charred hellscape is antithetical to the affordability of life’s basic needs. Have you seen charred hellscapes? They tend to be short on the essentials, and shortages usually make things more expensive.

Consider housing. Home ...Read more

If there’s one thing on which American politicians can agree, it’s that U.S. factory jobs are special. And with midterm elections approaching, the number of people working in manufacturing has become the scoreboard for President Donald Trump’s trade and industrial policies: Democrats point to 35,000 jobs lost since Trump took office in ...Read more

Many Democrats now advocate for an “abundance agenda,” which loosely holds that the party should be in the business of providing “vital goods” such as housing and infrastructure, rather than working to block or burden important projects on environmental or other grounds.

The new approach follows the 2025 book “Abundance” by Ezra ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When federal prosecutors charged 28 California immigrants with illegally registering to vote, they invited friendly media outlets to document the early morning arrest of one suspect.

At a news conference in Los Angeles this week, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli intoned that the defendants' alleged crimes proved ...Read more

Kim Jong Un might be the world’s most in-demand leader. President Donald Trump wants to meet him during a visit to Asia next month. So, too, does South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. He stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a giant military parade in Beijing last year, and...Read more

It is a tragedy for Israelis and Palestinians alike that the state of Israel happens to be home to two extraordinarily charismatic populist politicians. The first is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The second is his national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir.

The word tragedy is cheapened by misuse, but in this case it fits — not only ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds the toughest job on the planet. And it just got tougher. Donald Trump has made a cottage industry out of offering Russian President Vladimir Putin strategic advantages in his assault on the people of Ukraine. Just recently, he lifted the sanctions on Russia that the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham ...Read more

No one interested in pondering what looks like an intractably difficult conflict need turn their attention to Iran or Israel. We have one much closer to home. It's the riddle of how to divide up the ever-dwindling supply of water from the Colorado River.

Seven Western states depend on that water impounded by Hoover Dam at Lake Mead, with ...Read more

Being far from the United States for a couple weeks, scanning news from home for just minutes daily over morning coffee, gave me a new appreciation for the metaphors about the clarifying view from 38,000 feet or seeing the forest and not just trees.

President Donald Trump is perhaps best viewed at such distance. If anything, the big picture is ...Read more

Shocker alert: A new study concludes that California’s latest soak-the-rich tax proposal could result in a loss of revenue. Hard to believe.

California voters in November will decide on Proposition 40, a supposed “one-time” 5 percent net worth on the assets of billionaires. The rest of the nation — including Nevada — should pay close ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Nancy Pelosi is, beyond doubt, a figure who will long endure, her name forever pressed into the pages of the nation’s history books.

She is the first — and, so far, only — woman to wield the gavel as speaker of the House. She was indispensable to passage of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Working ...Read more

While voters are rightly aggrieved over Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, they need to recognize that the president is ready to inflict an even greater foreign policy disaster on our country.

This week, the president openly aligned the American government with Russia against the democracies of Europe, including Ukraine.

Having dropped ...Read more

A state appeals court has expunged an entire critical grand jury report on Hope Florida, as if it never happened. The only person we can see celebrating this is Gov. Ron DeSantis, who claims complete vindication.

As politicians scramble to cover their tracks, this odious coverup gives voters another reason why a central figure in the mess, ...Read more