A huge, waning moon glimmered over Los Angeles on election night, a metaphor for a trend that emerged in early returns.

The city's political establishment seemed to be on the retreat in favor of populist insurgents from both the left and the right.

Mayor Karen Bass held a cushy lead in her bid for a second term, and the Associated Press ...Read more

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” — Donald Trump, April 7, 2026

Too often, we sip our morning coffee while reading a bizarre Truth Social post by President Trump, often posted between midnight and dawn. His missives inevitably become grist for that evening’s late-night shows. The jokes can be funny...Read more

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass made what sounded like a victory speech Tuesday night.

Councilmember Nithya Raman made what sounded almost like a concession speech.

And former reality TV star Spencer Pratt relayed a message from the heavens.

"Well, obviously God wanted five more months of me exposing all the failures of our mayor, so it's gonna be a ...Read more

The biggest national security threat the United States faces at this moment is President Donald Trump.

Nothing illustrates that threat more clearly than the president’s pick of MAGA attack dog Bill Pulte, who has zero experience in the intelligence field, as acting czar of all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies.

This choice is a neon sign ...Read more

We can at least say that the property-tax cuts the Florida Legislature approved on Tuesday are an improvement from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ initial proposal from less than a week ago. The legislation exempts public education from massive funding cuts that could have devastated school districts.

But lawmakers still failed voters by not hammering out...Read more

The indictment of Raúl Castro is a powerful statement, reinforcing that there is no statute of limitations on murder charges, and supports my belief that Castro’s Battle of Ideas was a failed concept.

Castro, 94, is the brother of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and served as Cuba’s president from 2008 to 2018. He then led the Communist ...Read more

When it became evident a few weeks ago that President Donald Trump had no strategy for winning the war in Iran and little hope of getting out of the increasingly unpopular conflict without losing face, I started worrying about Israel.

Trump took the United States into battle in lock step with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. My ...Read more

Former first lady Jill Biden drew considerable attention recently after acknowledging that President Joe Biden’s performance during his 2024 debate with then-candidate Donald Trump was so troubling that she feared he might be having a stroke.

“I was frightened, because I had never ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never,” she told ...Read more

What will it take to cure Parkinson’s disease? It’s one of the first questions I asked when I was diagnosed in 1991, and one that patients and families still ask today. A lot has changed in those three decades, and thanks to the tireless efforts of a global community of scientists, patients and advocates, we’re closer to a cure than we’...Read more

A new report released by the Trevor Project in early May found that an astonishing one in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide last year, and more than a third seriously considered attempting suicide.

These findings add urgency to the call for the federal government to restore the LGBTQ+ youth option for its national 988 Suicide & Crisis ...Read more

While most folks think that the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on farm policy, the largest agency within USDA is the Forest Service — famous for Smokey Bear and quietly doing significant work on many fronts.

As secretaries of Agriculture during the Clinton and Bush administrations, we spent years getting to know what this agency does:...Read more

The results of a survey on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “bell-to-bell” statewide ban on smartphones in school during its first academic year were exactly as we predicted: An A+. Other states should follow, as it keeps kids focused on their class work and their teachers, not being lost to online distractions. The only downside is that it should have...Read more

For years, most Americans’ retirement savings plans have been locked out of certain investment choices, including some of the market’s best performing assets. That makes it harder to save for retirement. Fortunately, though, this is about to change, giving savers new—and better—options for their investments.

At issue are not only the ...Read more

Just over a week ago, the question facing the American “intelligence community” — all of the assorted spies and spooks at 18 different agencies — ran roughly as follows: Are things so bad that they can only get better? Or is there another step down?

There was another step down, it turns out, and it is Bill Pulte, whom President Donald ...Read more

The U.S. would have you believe it is showing leadership in Asia. Yet the nation displaying real resolve is Japan.

Standing up to China over its rapidly expanding military strength is what the Indo-Pacific wants to hear from Washington. Instead, it was left to Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi to do that when he took the stage at ...Read more

It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job market, with unemployment for recent college graduates nearing recession levels, and AI is often cited as the reason they can’t find jobs or have to drastically reassess their career plans.

I have a message ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV’s apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s sins of slavery is long overdue. With that apology must come atonement.

Last week, Leo apologized for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record “a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot ...Read more

The World Cup is coming to America. For many observers, that represents soccer’s arrival in the United States. I think it represents something else: the culmination of a transformation that has been underway for half a century.

I’ve probably watched “Once in a Lifetime,” the documentary about the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ...Read more

As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of kicking butt and taking names, I’m celebrating something that we aren’t kicking: soccer balls.

Our victory over the Brits did more than guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It also freed us of the menace of European culture. We dumped tea and we drink coffee. We pushed away ...Read more

It was a public outcry that came to encompass even some GOP senators that killed Donald Trump’s nutty $1.776 billion so-called anti-weaponization slush fund — the result of his laughable lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and less comical settlement to raid public funds to pay traitors and political allies.

But Trump is still ...Read more