The freedom of the press is one of America’s greatest protections against unchecked power. But freedom carries responsibility, and journalism cannot demand the public’s trust simply because the Constitution protects our right to publish.

We must earn it.

That responsibility has become more urgent as confidence in journalism has collapsed. ...Read more

In St. Louis, as nationally, the debate over data centers is raging. We don’t presume to settle that debate here. But one axiom applies: Secrecy and behind-the-scenes political pressure around data center public policy decisions is a surefire way to lose whatever public support the growing industry has.

For months, city officials have ...Read more

Todd Blanche, a onetime personal lawyer for the president, squeaked through Senate confirmation recently by a single vote. Asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether the Justice Department he now leads will always act independently of the White House, Blanche declared flatly, “No, I’m not going to pledge that.”

His demonstrated...Read more

I liked what I knew about the DSA. I liked what Democratic DSA candidates were saying (with some exceptions). Because I believe strongly that our government must be more about the people in order to be true to our founding principles, and industry should have less power. And so I was in agreement with Democrats who are socialists (with a small "...Read more

He’s become world famous for embracing America’s enemies and backstabbing our allies. Yet, President Donald Trump outdid himself Sunday — on the eve of joint military exercises with South Korea — when he announced the U.S. was scaling back participation to avoid offending his great friend, the nuclear-armed North Korean dictator Kim Jong...Read more

Florida demonstrated on Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s identity crisis is alive and well. It’s the latest signal that while the midterm election will be a referendum on the president’s performance, it’s also a major test of the Democratic Party’s ability to bridge its growing divide.

David Jolly, the moderate former Republican ...Read more

The Utah congressional delegation stood behind the Resolute Desk, an offensive line protecting their quarterback. They nodded along as President Donald Trump issued executive orders last month that virtually abolished Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, reducing their protected acres by 90% and opening up more ...Read more

Mykhailo Fedorov is perhaps the standout political figure to have been forged in Ukraine by Russia’s invasion. He is smart, young, so far untouched by any corruption scandal and the force behind two transformations that have proved critical to his nation’s survival: drone warfare and digital government. Even so, his demand this week for ...Read more

For the first three decades of my life, I lived, like everyone else on Earth at the time, under the nuclear sword of Damocles. As a kid, I can remember beginning each new school year practicing “duck and cover” drills, diving under our desks hoping against hope that by doing so, we’d protect ourselves from the ominous cloud of horror that ...Read more

It wasn’t so many months ago that Democrats were debating about what their winning message should be for capturing control of Congress in November’s midterm elections and finally putting a needed check on President Donald Trump.

Should they stay laser-focused on Trump’s culpability for a laggard economy and American families’ ...Read more

Over the years, I’ve witnessed first-hand countries going literally broke under U.S. economic pressure: Iraq, Venezuela and Cuba. The scenes I saw in Baghdad, Caracas and Havana were all very similar. The national currency became worthless, inflation skyrocketed and unemployment spiraled higher. And yet, American economic sanctions alone ...Read more

Feminists have spent decades arguing that women should have the freedom to choose in their own lives. Yet those who choose marriage, motherhood, and homemaking often receive the harshest criticism for allegedly being backward, oppressed, and complicit in harmful stereotypes. Somehow, we have gotten the idea that choice means having only one ...Read more

State Rep. Angie Nixon shocked Florida’s Democratic establishment — and probably the nation — when she won Florida’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

Outspent by a margin of 17 to one, Nixon’s victory proved that money alone cannot guarantee a victory. Running as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, she�...Read more

So much for the presidential candidate who claimed the desire to end “forever wars.” President Donald Trump’s administration has trapped itself in a Middle East quagmire with Iran. A conflict the president said would last only weeks will soon surpass six months as global energy prices continue to surge.

Results of Trump’s second-term ...Read more

Earlier this year, as the Islamic Republic of Iran was busy crushing the largest protests since those in the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, President Donald Trump promised that help was on its way. He meant, of course, that the U.S. would ride to the rescue of the ordinary Iranians being slaughtered in the streets. Instead, he launched a war ...Read more

The world’s militaries are locked in an arms race to develop the use of artificial intelligence in warfare. They’ve been at it for more than a decade — despite calls from civil society and AI experts to ban its use in military operations, given the devastation that inaccurate AI targeting can cause.

In Gaza, AI has helped accelerate the ...Read more

When an Israeli prime minister jets into Washington for a meeting with the president of the United States, the red carpet is typically rolled.

But when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited President Donald Trump on July 29, that was not the welcome he received. Instead, the veteran pol, who was in town for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham�...Read more

Overeducated and underpaid: Welcome to the rising faction of voters pushing the Democratic Party to the socialist left and foreshadowing a clash with mainstream liberals in 2028.

Strong support from these voters, both young and middle-aged, has advanced several populist progressives and candidates affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of ...Read more

Every transformative technology has its prophets of doom. AI is just the latest to draw them out.

In the early 1800s, the “Luddites,” followers of the possibly mythical Ned Ludd, smashed textile machinery, convinced that destroying the new technology would save their livelihoods.

They weren’t entirely misguided: Mechanized looms did ...Read more

The midterm election season is in full swing, and candidates for Congress are doing what politicians often do: promising voters something in return for sending them to Washington or keeping them there.

Quite often, those promises involve tax cuts.

Proposed cuts often aren’t sweeping, across-the-board reductions, but narrowly targeted breaks ...Read more