There were two noticeable no-shows as Western leaders gathered Monday to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence — and its five years of resistance to Vladimir Putin’s effort to re-subjugate the country to Russian rule.

There were multiple news reports that President Donald Trump’s clueless peace envoys — son-in-law Jared ...Read more

Democrats are in a tizzy over a recent Supreme Court ruling that allows a presidential order on mail ballots to move forward — for now. But the decision was technical in nature and will almost certainly have no practical effect on the November election in Nevada or elsewhere.

In March, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that he ...Read more

From the time that she first stepped onto the Grand Ole Opry stage, it was clear that the tiny girl from the Tennessee mountains was special. Johnny Cash introduced her, and she sang alongside her uncle — who had bought her her first guitar, and became her first songwriting partner, helping her create hits that would propel other country ...Read more

Law enforcement agencies, including in Las Vegas, have increasingly employed surveillance devices to record the activities of unsuspecting drivers (see: Flock cameras), raising obvious constitutional and privacy concerns. Ironic then, that many police departments become agitated when onlookers record the actions of officers.

Last week, a ...Read more

On the morning of July 15, a Blue Angels F/A-18 came in over Florida’s Pensacola Beach so low it sent umbrellas and beach chairs tumbling while children covered their ears due to the loud noise. The next morning, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on social media that “The flyovers will continue until morale improves.” That was supposed...Read more

If you recently left a job, it’s likely you lost access to your old inbox and the saved records of those tedious Zoom or Teams meetings. Leaving such digital detritus behind now is part of life. But we doubt you anticipated your employer being able to make money from what you had to say while gainfully employed.

Consider what just happened ...Read more

Last week, OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT for Teens, a new user experience crafted to help young people “learn, think critically, deepen understanding, and use AI with confidence.” Maybe most importantly, OpenAI vowed that it would place any users its system “estimates” to be under 18 into the system “automatically.”

For nearly a ...Read more

For centuries, lawyers have been leaders in establishing and protecting our democracy and its cornerstone, the rule of law. They have challenged tyrants, whether it be King George III in our nation’s founding or President Donald Trump, a wannabe king, today.

Lawyers swear to do this in an oath, which is a condition of admission to the bar, to...Read more

The opening of another season of college football and the NFL are right around the corner, and like most of you we are excited for what’s to come.

Football is an incredible game, combining skill, speed, strength, violence and (perhaps most underrated) the task each and every play of having 11 men working in concert to run or pass the weirdly ...Read more

The U.S. government, steward of the world’s largest economy, faces a darkening fiscal outlook as sovereign borrowing costs surge. Unfortunately, it seems intent on trying any fix except the one that might help.

In a trend affecting the entire developed world, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note has risen to 4.7%, from 4.4% less than two ...Read more

Six years on from their dramatic UK departure, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are returning from California with their two small children. Royal watchers have many questions: Where will they live and where will Archie and Lilibet go to school? What does this say about Harry’s strained relationship with his father King Charles and brother ...Read more

Each year, schools around the country spend the last weeks of summer break preparing for the day when promising young minds flood through their doors. Yet educators and policymakers too often overlook a crucial step in helping children thrive: developing a plan for extreme heat.

The need is becoming more urgent as climate change makes ...Read more

Where, Robert Garcia must consider, does one begin?

Garcia is a two-term Democratic congressman from Long Beach, California. He’s the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, which makes him the top Democrat on the panel charged with patrolling and policing operations of the federal government — a role congressional Republicans have...Read more

On Monday, the United States opened another chapter in its decadeslong campaign of economic pressure against Iran. The Treasury Department launched Operation Economic Outcast, describing it as an unprecedented economic campaign aimed at further isolating the Islamic Republic and those who enable it.

The objective sounds straightforward: Deprive...Read more

Earlier this month, scrolling the TV channels, I happened upon a documentary about Dolly Parton and started watching. Before long I thought: "Boy, I needed this."

That evening came at the end of another week of wallowing in all things Donald Trump. It's my job and, I think, my civic duty. It's also soul-crushing, as news consumers around the ...Read more

The U.S. Constitution is clear that the states — and the states alone — handle elections and the U.S. Supreme Court is wrong to even open up the possibility that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots can go forward. The president and the U.S. Postal Service aren’t in charge of voting practices and the lower...Read more

The idea that states must shower subsidies on favored interests to create jobs and juice their economies has, unfortunately, taken root across the political spectrum. But Republicans and Democrats could save the taxpayers plenty of treasure if they would instead come together on occupational licensing reform.

A recent report in Governing ...Read more

My favorite Dolly Parton song is nowhere near her most famous and not even among her best.

But if you want to honor the late country music legend's legacy — a testament to the Gospel's radical notions of love, acceptance and uplifting the marginalized — you need to blast her cover of Woody Guthrie's "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)."

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More people would accept a nuclear power plant in their community than a data center, according to recent Gallup polling. Who would have predicted that even five years ago?

The facilities needed to power the rise of artificial intelligence as well as to allow us to continue our collective smartphone addiction are wildly unpopular.

And yet ...Read more

I recently tumbled into a social media post about the depths of underappreciation for Curtis Sittenfeld’s 2020 novel “Rodham.”

I could relate. I’ve not read the book despite being a huge fan of the Minneapolis-based author since her 2005 debut “Prep.” I can recommend Sittenfeld’s two more recent efforts, “Romantic Comedy” and ...Read more