You’ve likely heard the ominous what-if scenarios about election disruptions in November: immigration agents or federal troops roaming polling places, federal officials seizing ballots and voting machines, and President Donald Trump issuing an executive order postponing or canceling the election. Courts and legal experts have given solid ...Read more

After years of widening political polarization in the U.S., signs are accumulating that red states and blue states are heading toward a stalemate.

The rules of daily life now diverge across the states to the greatest extent since the fall of Jim Crow six decades ago, a prospect that carries unsettling implications for the nation’s fundamental...Read more

How do you get kids to stop spending so much time in the virtual world? It’s pretty obvious: Give them back the real one.

Kids desperately need free time, with each other, in person, in a place their parents let them go. That’s a pretty simple ask — it’s what you did after school, right? Hung out with friends? But right now it’s not ...Read more

Americans are frustrated with today’s high cost of living, especially fuel prices. Although incomes rose faster than prices last year, it’s been the opposite since February. The only good news is that this inflation will subside when overseas conflicts are resolved, but there is likely more pain to come for consumers until then.

The ...Read more

Every October, bats flutter through haunted houses, horror movies and Halloween decorations as symbols of darkness, danger and things that go bump in the night. Thanks to Dracula and generations of spooky stories, they’ve earned an undeserved reputation as tiny flying monsters.

The real bats flying overhead on crisp autumn evenings are among ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s affinity for his pal Vladimir Putin has now torpedoed new congressionally mandated sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. How low will Trump stoop to aid Putin?

The trade restrictions that Trump lifted were named after Sen. Lindsey Graham, which passed with huge bipartisan support after Graham suddenly ...Read more

Leading up to the 2024 presidential election, divisions were so high across the country that CBS News reported on the effects political yard signs had on home sales. CBS wasn’t the only outlet covering that topic.

“You may not have bought that ‘Make America Great Again’ sign on your next-door neighbor’s lawn, but if you’re looking ...Read more

President Donald Trump was right to cancel plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood murderer Nidal Hasan. Carrying out a lawful sentence should be a solemn responsibility, never a public spectacle. California Gov. Gavin Newsom should exercise restraint of his own by rejecting blanket commutation of the state’s death sentences.

As a ...Read more

To some, they are a political pet peeve, a plague of partisan litter upon the landscape every two years.

Homeowners associations hate them. Some towns have even tried to ban them.

But Neil Levesque, the head of the prestigious New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College, has a message for people who hate political yard signs: “...Read more

James Carville’s motto, “It’s the economy, stupid,” is dominating this year’s electoral cycle. It shouldn’t be.

We just did one of the largest survey experiments of its kind and identified a path that increases Democrats’ working-class support by 10.9 points while simultaneously increasing support from Democrats’ college-...Read more

The federal government managed to become even more fiscally inept during the past fiscal year, running a deficit of $2 trillion, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That’s a $218 billion increase from the previous 12 months.

The sea of red ink comes as revenues have risen. Tax collections were up 3 percent in fiscal 2026, coming in ...Read more

“Seven times.”

In an annoyingly repetitive TV ad, that’s how often congressional candidate Scott Singer claims he cut taxes as Boca Raton mayor.

A frame from a Scott Singer for Congress TV ad (YouTube.com) It seems as if the ad runs seven times an hour during Miami’s early-morning news.

South Florida viewers endure an endless barrage ...Read more

This fall, like every other, I tried to game the flu season. My goal, always, is to get my vaccine at just the right moment: before the first cases pop up, yet late enough so that its protective effects last beyond the holidays and well into January or February, when infections tend to peak. That typically means scheduling my appointment for ...Read more

Abortion has fallen off the GOP agenda. In its place is a campaign against transgender issues, largely centered on children’s sports. Politically, I understand it. Ethically, I don’t.

Consider Texas. Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is unabashedly pro-choice and supports restoring Roe v. Wade, this time as a federal law. But there...Read more

Here in Chicago, we’ve seen the smash-and-grab movie that played this weekend in previously peaceful French cities.

It’s the one where guys in hoodies and masks smash the plate-glass windows of a luxury store and grab some desirable designer stuff under the guise of some kind of anti-establishment protest action and then exit rapidly with ...Read more

Whether on purpose or by accident, the Trump administration’s new voucher program could do something it never promised to do: help public schools. It’s a bit of a surprise from the White House that promised to abolish the Department of Education and then dismantled large parts of it. But under rules released this month by the U.S. Treasury ...Read more

In what may be one of the most comical self-owns in recent politics, the esteemed attorneys of the U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that despite the extravagant and terrifying misuse of their investigative power under the Trump administration, they have so far been able to identify only 28 people in all of California who may have ...Read more

One of the greatest frustrations I had during my 18 years representing the great state of Montana in the U.S. Senate was watching, in real time, the ever-increasing flood of corporate money poison our political discourse.

Washington couldn’t — or wouldn’t — fix the problem unleashed by the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens ...Read more

Ben Franklin was wrong. The certain things in life aren't only death and taxes, but death, taxes and news articles about how wealthy families are living "paycheck-to-paycheck."

We're undergoing a new round of this coverage, triggered this time by a survey from Goldman Sachs titled "New Economics of Retirement: Making Every Dollar Saved Work ...Read more

The summer of 2026 once again saw wildfire smoke from the West Coast and Midwest blanketing East Coast skies. Smoke-filled summer skies now seem to be the norm across America, and wildfire season isn’t even close to over.

The public response is also becoming normal. When investigators determine that a person started a wildfire, online chatter...Read more