Democratic socialism has been winning in Democratic primaries lately, but it will ultimately lose — because it fails politically and economically.

Several Democratic socialist candidates this year have knocked off sitting Democratic incumbents and won primaries by wide margins in cities across the country, running under the label rather than ...Read more

Katie Porter says she’s “closing the door” on politics to become a book influencer. If that’s true, then it’s a shame, and a loss for California.

It wouldn’t be a loss for BookTok, the name for the community of online book lovers who rely on influencers to show them their next great read. I have no doubt that Porter has excellent ...Read more

The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment, with candidates winning Democratic congressional primaries in New York and Colorado. Given the demographics of these districts, some will certainly be elected to the House in November.

Sympathetic Democrats often argue that these folks simply want to import a Nordic-style welfare state ...Read more

Outgoing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer could give Michigan a parting gift by helping ensure this state doesn't join the ranks of those sending Democratic Socialists to Washington.

The governor hasn't weighed in on the primary race between Congresswoman Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed, a socialist who is fast becoming the national poster boy for the ...Read more

When the White House sent thousands of armed immigration agents into Minneapolis earlier this year, it followed a playbook pioneered in Chicago. Now both cities are adding up the cost from those Department of Homeland Security surges and struggling to put the damage behind them.

Last week, a “Minnesota Nice” marketing team staged a well-...Read more

BOSTON – U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley needs to come clean on her sudden wealth and husband’s business dealings and potential conflicts – answering tough questions directly instead of her usual dodging, softball interviews and canned social media posts.

Take a page out of your nemesis, President Donald Trump’s playbook, and stand there and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon leave office without gaining the support of fellow Californians for his most ambitious climate project: the banning of new gas-burning car sales by 2035.

Newsom issued an executive order in 2020 taking new fossil-fueled passenger vehicles off the California market nine years from now.

But ...Read more

If you are an AI doomer, as a majority of Americans are, then you might find New York’s one-year moratorium on new data centers reassuring: No matter how fast technology progresses, humans will do all they can to slow it down.

Restrictions on data centers, which are almost certainly coming in other states as well, illustrate what we ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has spent millions of dollars to combat sex trafficking, and yet it can still be found in every city and town, hiding in plain sight.

Whether it's online, on places such as Figueroa Street in L.A. or Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento, or even in the hotel rooms where our World Cup guests stayed, there are ...Read more

A veteran’s PTSD doesn’t disappear when they enter prison. Traumatic brain injuries don’t cure themselves. Addiction doesn't vanish behind bars. Yet many of the systems designed to help veterans manage those conditions stop at the prison gate.

When veterans are incarcerated, they often lose access to VA healthcare, struggle to use ...Read more

Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration sent Americans trying to navigate the cyclospora outbreak into a tailspin. A day after Taylor Farms announced a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce in 27 states — generating one set of alarming headlines — the FDA said that a test linking the company’s lettuce to the parasite had been ...Read more

Given the difficulty of identifying the most egregious assertions from President Donald Trump's latest outbursts of pique and petulance, it's unsurprising that perhaps his weirdest and most despicable diatribe has gone under the radar.

It came on July 15, at a "Defense and Innovation Summit" in Pennsylvania hosted by Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa. ...Read more

With the U.S. and Iran trading attacks and skirmishing over who controls the Strait of Hormuz, their 60-day ceasefire lies in tatters. Both would be wiser to refrain from further escalation and remember why they need that final agreement.

The recent bout of violence flared up when Iranian forces struck several commercial vessels heeding U.S. ...Read more

Back in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic, like everyone else, I knew that we were living through an extraordinary moment in history. It felt like our world had been turned upside down, and it was hard to imagine what would come next.

In the midst of that uncertainty, a friend and I began wondering: What if young people across Chicago could ...Read more

When Keir Starmer, the Labour Party’s top politician, took the reins of 10 Downing Street in July 2024 after a resounding election victory over the Conservative Party, there was a sense that Britain was finally leaving behind its dysfunctional politics and economic stagnation. Starmer, a lawyer who used to be Britain’s top prosecutor, was ...Read more

“The Odyssey” is on its own odyssey.

The epic poem from ancient Greece about the mythical Ithacan King Odysseus’ ordeal getting home after the Trojan War wandered into America’s culture wars after some prominent conservatives concluded that Christopher Nolan’s film version, which premiered last week, was “woke” because of the ...Read more

Remember when planning a summer day meant glancing out the window to see if it might rain?

Summer now comes with a checklist. What’s the temperature? What’s the heat index? Is there a thunderstorm coming? What’s the air quality index? Is wildfire smoke drifting in from Canada? Should the kids bring swimsuits or stay inside? Will tonight�...Read more

President Donald Trump recently justified renewed military action against Iran by saying Tehran “did not obey what they’re supposed to obey” under a memorandum of understanding intended to halt the fighting. Whether one believes Iran violated that agreement or not, one word deserves closer examination: obey.

In international affairs, ...Read more

Spain’s 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final on Sunday wasn’t the most entertaining match but still served as the culmination of a monthlong celebration that spanned the North American continent. From Vancouver to Miami, Los Angeles to Mexico City, the three host nations collaborated to produce an experience that was as ...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to a familiar theme last week, delivering a prime-time address on election integrity which implied that many states allow those in the country illegally to vote. He called the system “dishonest” and even singled out Nevada.

Democrats responded that the president was trying to undermine faith in the upcoming ...Read more