We have all had the experience of staying a few days in a hotel — say on holiday — which becomes home. Quickly, it becomes familiar. Individuals adjust to change. People who come into money get used to being well-off, and people who lose everything get used to that.

So, too, with nations. They adjust with this attitude: That is just the way...Read more

Thirty years ago, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was born out of real concerns for the future. Lawmakers feared that the early internet, fragile and experimental, would be smothered in lawsuits before it had the chance to become the marketplace of ideas many hoped it could become.

Section 230 offered a shield, allowing platforms...Read more

On World Wildlife Day (March 3), we’re asked to reflect on what it means to protect the earthlings who share this planet with us. Few animals reveal the answer more clearly than wolves.

Gray wolves have been protected under federal law for decades, yet their future remains perpetually under threat. This raises a practical and ethical question...Read more

Across the country, people are skipping meals and falling behind on housing payments while layoffs, automation and diminishing labor protections deepen insecurity. The message many workers hear is simple: You are replaceable.

In that climate, people take dangerous jobs and stay silent about hazards. They skip water breaks in extreme heat, avoid...Read more

In a country with a broken pension system that struggles to pay benefits to retirees, an injection of young laborers became crucial to increase tax revenue and keep the program afloat.

It’s not the first time this country has launched a program to legalize migrants; previous experiences have shown that subsidies and benefit programs are not ...Read more

A couple weeks ago, Calley Means, the man responsible for securing the MAGA/MAHA alliance between Donald J. Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., took to X to call out The New York Times for describing home cooking as “unpaid labor that tends to fall disproportionately on women.”

This feminist propaganda came from an article ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As Minnesotans endured weeks of brutal, chaotic federal immigration enforcement, Minneapolis Foundation CEO R.T. Rybak was a vocal and consistent cheerleader for everyone trying to protect their neighbors.

It was not a surprising role for Rybak, the three-term DFL mayor of Minneapolis who served from 2002 to 2014. He has long ...Read more

A solid indicator of the state of the union could be found in who was and who wasn't in the Capitol when President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday night to deliver his annual address to Congress.

Roughly 45 Democrats boycotted the address to protest Trump's existence as well as his policies. Many gathered at the National Mall for an alternative ...Read more

Almost 250 years ago, George Washington created America’s first mass immunization mandate, relying on science to protect public health.

Oh, how times have changed.

Back then, smallpox had just helped end the Continental Army’s invasion of Canada. Despite making it all the way to Quebec, thousands of soldiers contracted the disease. ...Read more

Americans are having a few regrets about their approach to child safety in the care of drug-using parents.

Earlier this month, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico said she never should have signed the state’s 2019 Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act. “We were releasing, after they were well enough to go home, infants in the care of ...Read more

A strange quirk at San Quentin state prison is that most of those incarcerated behind its towering walls are unable to see the San Francisco Bay that literally laps at the shore a few yards away.

That changed recently with the completion of new buildings — holding among other accouterments a self-serve kitchen, a library, a cafe and a film ...Read more

This is the Year of the Fire Horse in the Chinese zodiac — but for the White House, it's more like the Year of Babies.

No, not the ones in the Trump administration. Actual babies.

Parents can take advantage of a larger child tax credit. July 5 will see the launch of $1,000 stock investments funded by the Treasury Department for children born...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Throughout Operation Metro Surge the Trump administration repeatedly berated Minnesota for its lack of cooperation in this deportation operation. But if it wants more assistance from Minnesota and other states, it ought to try cooperating with state law enforcement agencies in investigating the homicides of Alex Pretti and Renee ...Read more

There have been times throughout history when a single event is so significant that it snowballs into international news. Think of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the killing of Osama bin Laden a decade later.

For Mexico, the killing of drug lord Nemesio Rubén ...Read more

Every morning over buckwheat pancakes and sausage, my father and grandfather would decide which fields to work that day and share an update about their cattle. Then, inevitably, the talk would move on to the low price of milk and the government’s part in it.

“It’s all a game,” my grandfather would declare, throwing up his hands. “They...Read more

Will 2026 be remembered as the year of the starter home? Since January, bills have been introduced in Florida, Connecticut, Maryland and at least nine other state legislatures to allow smaller houses on smaller lots. And in Massachusetts, voters will decide by referendum whether to override town zoning rules and allow small-lot houses across the...Read more

Your grandmother trusted her doctor. Your mother trusted Consumer Reports. You trust the 4.7-star rating from 2,300 strangers.

But if you’ve recently used the internet to look at reviews for a stroller, or even for help selecting a health insurance plan, you likely noticed that it’s not very helpful anymore. Real information has become ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Every farmer knows there comes a time to thin the crop to allow the most promising plants to grow bigger and reach their potential.

The same is true in politics. And it‘s now time to cull some Democrats from the dense field of candidates for governor.

Put another way, it’s time for some lagging Democrats to step ...Read more