Democrats and Republicans, in Congress and the White House, once collaborated on fraught legislation to address major public policy and fiscal challenges: Social Security reform in 1983, Welfare reform in 1996, the Troubled Asset Relief Program of 2008 that arguably saved the U.S. from financial ruin. That’s just in my lifetime.

Today, an ...Read more

The State Department recently announced it had revoked more than 175,000 visas since President Donald Trump took office. Thanks to “continuous vetting,” it’s been able to yank the visas from foreigners who abused our hospitality by committing fraud and crime.

That might sound like a lot, but in fiscal 2024 the U.S. issued 612,258 ...Read more

News reports and social media constantly remind us that today’s political system rewards conflict, viral moments, and ideological performance over thoughtful and courteous debate.

Tune into the melee, and it is as if every high-ranking official is now a TV political pundit rather than a serious statesman or stateswoman.

What’s missing in ...Read more

In late June, the Supreme Court ruled against limits upon state political party spending in federal elections. The specter of Money in Politics, already looming large, grew several sizes. It begs the question, naturally: just how much will all this additional inflow affect our elections? And can anyone compete against so much damn money?

In ...Read more

Like so many others, I spent late July choking on smoke as wildfires, worsened by fossil-fueled climate change, raged across Canada and the United States, as well as France, Greece, Spain and Turkey. People, including firefighters, lost their lives.

Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes, with many losing everything. ...Read more

Every year, tens of thousands of people travel to Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for a week devoted to radical self-expression—the freedom to shed everyday constraints, explore, create and live more fully on their own terms.

For one week, Burning Man becomes a city built around that idea. Participants leave behind many of the expectations and ...Read more

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Teens, complete with various safety features. But this implies that the main concern of kids using AI is their access to damaging content. If only.

Don’t get me wrong. The AI-assisted suicides, deepfakes and sexually explicit conversations with and for children are — to be frank — horrific.

But as a mother...Read more

Listening to politicians, it can be difficult to know how the U.S. government is performing in terms of human rights.

Some have pointed to a number of potential human rights abuses committed by the U.S. government inside and outside its borders in the past two years.

And yet President Donald Trump recently called the country “the home of ...Read more

Barely a month after Canadian wildfire smoke drifted over large swaths of the United States and set off climate alarmism, the panic has crossed the Atlantic.

In France, fires west of Bordeaux forced more than 220,000 people to flee. In Spain, outside Madrid, flames scorched an area twice the size of the Spanish capital and drove nearly 90,000 ...Read more

The Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday allowing President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail voting to go forward is stunningly insensitive to the context: Trump is trying to exercise control over elections when he has absolutely no authority to do so. In one sense, the justices decided nothing, simply saying it was too soon for federal ...Read more

Your power bill is too high. Electricity prices have risen by as much as 40% since 2020, far outpacing overall inflation. And after decades of nearly flat growth in energy consumption, data centers are driving up grid demand for the first time in roughly 35 years. Then heat waves, like the one currently cooking Southern California, push the ...Read more

Amid the cyclospora outbreak that has sickened more than 27,000 people in 47 states, causing more than 800 hospitalizations and two untimely deaths, many people are blaming the federal government for letting its guard down on the monitoring of food-born illnesses.

That criticism is warranted: Under President Donald Trump, funding for the ...Read more

History tells us that Republicans have an uphill climb this November to keep control of the House — and perhaps the Senate. President Donald Trump isn’t doing them a favor with his latest tariff threats against Canada, this country’s second-largest trading partner.

After talks between the United States and its northern neighbor broke down...Read more

Memo to President Donald Trump: Canada is our friend.

A round of recent trade talks, necessitated in the first place by a series of American tariffs on our neighbor to the north early in Trump’s second term, collapsed late last week and now the U.S. is embroiled in the most foolish of trade wars with Canada. The Trump administration reacted ...Read more

Democrats have quickly built a big tent, that’s for sure.

After last week’s stunning primary results, their ticket for November is led by outspoken Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon for Senate and conventionally moderate David Jolly for governor.

To some, it seems contradictory. Modern Florida has never seen a statewide ticket so diverse ...Read more

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is not lazy, I'll give him that.

During his unsuccessful run for governor this year, you may recall that the MAGA devotee found time to seize more than 650,000 ballots from the Proposition 50 redistricting race, claiming he suspected there were tens of thousands more votes cast than there should have been �...Read more

As if U.S. officials didn’t have enough on their plate these days, they can now add a trade war with Canada to the mix — and with it, one more dent to a relationship that historically is one of the closest the United States has with another country. President Donald Trump has done the impossible by turning America’s pleasant neighbor up ...Read more

Technology changes what we value, often in ways we don’t see coming.

This may be one of the most important economic consequences of the artificial-intelligence revolution.

The internet made information abundant. Social media made it possible to connect with almost anyone. AI is now making digital experiences cheaper, faster and easier to ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order on vaccines, signed August 10, is the latest in his administration’s endless attacks on public health. It recommends that the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, or MMR, be separated into three individual shots. There is no scientific evidence or public health data to support this decision. Trump has ...Read more

Rarely have there been two better neighbors than the United States and Canada.

We like each other. We share the world’s longest unfortified border. We’re partners in NORAD, the joint defense against Russian, Chinese and North Korean ICBMs.

The U.S. and Canada automakers are interdependent. Canada has been our No. 2 export market, worth $...Read more