Donald Trump, now 80 years old and seeking riches his whole life, has realized his dream by debasing the once-solemn duties of the U.S. presidency.

After decades of bankruptcies and losses and inflating his own wealth as he mismanaged his companies, Trump has finally found profit, with his financial disclosure statements showing he pulled in at...Read more

In the old days, before accepted medical protocols came under partisan assault, infants typically received a vitamin K shot to enhance blood-clotting capability and a few drops of an antibiotic to stave off eye infections before leaving the hospital, followed by a thorough round of vaccines against life-threatening diseases.

Americans assumed ...Read more

Happy Birthday, America!

You turned 250 on Saturday and, honestly, you don't look a day over 249. (Ha ha.)

Seriously, it's perfectly understandable why there's more gray on your scalp and deeper worry lines on your face. This last year has been another challenging one, to say the least. (And we thought the one cataloged 12 months ago in this ...Read more

Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image, and those GOP incumbents who’ve attempted to stand in his way or haven’t been exuberantly supportive enough for his liking nearly always have been dispatched to retirement by MAGA primary voters.

Establishment Democratic Party politicians are getting to know the feeling.

First, a ...Read more

When people consider where leadership originates, they’ll often cite club sports, internships or professional experience.

My response is different.

I was 11 when I got into “Super Smash Bros.” Like many kids, I spent countless hours playing video games with friends after a long school day, battling players on Discord, learning new ...Read more

If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

In the field of healthcare, and specifically regarding food’s influence on wellness, physicians in this country are highly trained and have many tools at their disposal to share with patients. However, they are not immune to the overarching cultural conditions that ...Read more

Here at Shawangunk Correctional Facility, a small maximum security prison in upstate New York, I am part of a nine-month reentry program called Project Build. Every Friday morning, we gather around long, wooden tables and talk about who we were when we committed our crimes, and who we are striving to become.

Last year, I had the opportunity to ...Read more

Glancing at the world in 2026, I wouldn’t exactly say that humanity is raising consciousness. Except in one sense: Some scientists and philosophers are, in incremental baby steps, coming closer to understanding what consciousness even is.

And as I discovered while talking to the co-authors of a groundbreaking study released last week, the ...Read more

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s was a devastating but temporary confluence of human cluelessness and natural accident. It was also a demonstration of humanity’s ability to wreck an environment when we really set our minds to it. Thanks to that dubious superpower, we’re now living in a world of more and stronger natural disasters — including ...Read more

Millions of Americans have dropped their Affordable Care Act insurance coverage this year. It’s the predictable consequence of Republicans’ decision to allow the expiration of tax credits that put Obamacare plans within reach for many and helped drive the rate of uninsured in the U.S. to historic lows.

Without those subsidies, monthly ...Read more

By its very essence, the American West requires a jeweler’s touch.

I know. Over three decades, I was a town wildlife officer, leading Mammoth Lakes’ effort to find balance with its coyotes, bears, mountain lions and more.

I crawled into bear dens, I managed their population surge, I led programs to educate the public and police.

Through ...Read more

One of the world’s current hottest commodities is in the midst of a huge disruption. It may sound like I’m talking about oil and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, but this is even more severe. The supply shock is far greater — and so is the price response: Global production has plunged as much as 40% from a year ago; prices are up 80% ...Read more

Halfway through the U.S. primary election season, at least one thing is clear: Voters in states that hold closed party primaries are, as usual, losing out.

More than 20 states hold primaries in which only registered party members are eligible to participate. In a battleground state or district, that process can produce competitive general ...Read more

This week's narrow Supreme Court decision protecting birthright citizenship is rightly being hailed as a triumph for the American experiment.

By some, anyway.

Check out MAGA world and you'll quickly find Trump surrogates and even elected leaders spouting a kind of extremist anti-immigrant sentiment that once, not so long ago, was considered ...Read more

Of all the wonders that American ingenuity has produced over its first 250 years — from shrinking the globe via the airplane to improving the hamburger by adding a slice of cheese — perhaps our deepest imprint on modern society was made in Detroit.

Henry Ford, the son of an Irish immigrant, was born in 1863, built his first car in 1896, and...Read more

Perhaps the most evocative tune in America’s patriotic repertoire, and certainly the most popular, is also among the least understood. Written by Katharine Lee Bates in 1893, “America the Beautiful” will be sung out at countless parades and picnics and parties on the country’s 250th anniversary this July Fourth. Amid divisive times in ...Read more

Even before President Donald Trump returned to office, the Supreme Court had further empowered him like no president before, by agreeing two years ago in Trump vs. United States that presidents have near-absolute immunity from criminal liability for acts in office. Perhaps it's this shiny new stay-out-of-jail-free card that's emboldened Trump 2....Read more

There is cause to celebrate after Chief Justice John Roberts led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule 6-3 against President Donald Trump’s idiotic executive order attempting to terminate birthright citizenship for people born in this country to parents who are undocumented or have some form of temporary status.

Roberts wrote a strong opinion that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Great American State Fair on the National Mall should have been the rousing centerpiece of America’s 250th birthday celebration. Instead, it is a perfect tribute to President Donald Trump.

With its cheap, slapdash imagining of Trump’s America and its constant political homage to POTUS and MAGA, the exhibit has little to ...Read more