As advocates for progressive social policy, we found it rare and promising good news when New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced in April that he plans to create a city-owned grocery in East Harlem, Manhattan.

The East Harlem store will be the first of five planned city-owned stores, one in each borough. And Mamdani aims to do it right �...Read more

Every culture has art or artifacts that become symbols, like Russia’s “stacking” or “nesting” dolls known as Matryoshka.

Every country has symbols, too. For the Soviet Union it was posters.

“The entire path that the Soviet Union walked is shown through the lens of poster design,” explained Maria Zavialova, the curator and head of...Read more

Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than aging, washed up multi-millionaire former talk show hosts.

Liberal hero Stephen Colbert’s long swan song into podcast oblivion showed how clueless Democrats are who worship the rich TV host who lost his job because his show lost $40 million a year for CBS.

Despite all the fanfare and ...Read more

When Congress passed the big, ugly bill known as HR 1 last year, most Americans understood it meant cuts to Medicaid, the safety net program millions rely on for medical insurance.

But few Californians realized just how much it will affect the Golden State when its provisions really kick in, starting after the midterms (the Republicans aren’t...Read more

If anyone still believes President Donald Trump is the ultimate dealmaker, his erratic efforts to exit his failed Iran war should shred that illusion.

Whether or not a tenuous ceasefire holds, or if it is extended yet again, Iran looks set to emerge as the strategic winner of Trump’s ill-conceived “military operation.”

Tehran’s rulers,...Read more

The man who boasted that he could get away with murder on Fifth Avenue is pulling off something just as brazen. The $1.8 billion slush fund from which President Donald Trump intends to reward people who tried to steal the 2020 election for him is the biggest heist in our history.

It’s like breaking into Fort Knox and driving off with a ...Read more

It’s a Roman holiday for Mayor Brandon Johnson and a cross section of Chicago’s new elite.

Forty-six. That strikes us as a retinue more fitting for the likes of a presidential delegation than a mayor.

But this is no ordinary overseas trip. The mayor made a much-anticipated visit Thursday to the Vatican for a conversation with the Chicago ...Read more

Since the Affordable Care Act's enactment in 2010, the Republican mantra about the law has been "repeal and replace."

On the surface, the GOP never got what it wanted. The key moment in this campaign arrived in July 2017, when the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., stood on the Senate floor and issued a thumbs-down gesture to kill repeal.

But ...Read more

Leading AI models are doubling their capabilities every four months, and the implications for accelerating scientific research, improving education, and transforming much of the economy provoke both enthusiasm and angst.

While some CEOs of major AI companies speculate that AI will destroy millions of jobs in the U.S., just in the next five ...Read more

The immigrants held at Delaney Hall in Newark, N.J., are sadly emblematic of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts.

Most of the men and women inside the 1,000-bed facility will have no criminal record — let alone be the “worst of the worst” — and were detained while going to work, dropping their kids off at school, or out ...Read more

A few years ago, I was driving along a busy road in my small town when I spotted a giant snapping turtle crossing the road. I turned my hazard lights on, pulled over to the shoulder and stood behind him, gently urging him forward. I didn’t know how to handle him, and he kept turning his head around, snapping at me. Thankfully, a passerby saw ...Read more

Lately, it seems like each time I reach out to an old acquaintance through social media, I’m met with a page that reads, “This account doesn’t exist anymore.”

Many Gen-Z’ers are quietly quitting the platforms we grew up on.

This is understandable. While designed to be a public space spurring connection, many of these platforms now do...Read more

During a recent conversation, my 16-year-old son told me I did not understand him.

Parents know these moments well. What begins as a disagreement about something practical can quickly become something larger. A conversation about rules, expectations, timing, priorities, or responsibility suddenly transforms into a referendum on whether your ...Read more

For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why.

For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, summer break is associated with a significant drop in earnings and work hours. This tightens already tight family budgets and adds to the gender pay gap, as fathers don’t tend to reduce work hours in the ...Read more

Funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies was at the epicenter of the recently resolved budget impasse. This roadblock, resulting in a record-long 75-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, was focused on how ICE was staffed and directed by the Trump administration.

During ...Read more

Leading AI models are doubling their capabilities every four months, and the implications for accelerating scientific research, improving education, and transforming much of the economy provoke both enthusiasm and angst.

While some CEOs of major AI companies speculate that AI will destroy millions of jobs in the U.S., just in the next five ...Read more

Lawmakers in both parties are increasingly embracing the idea of price controls on medicines — and in doing so, they’re making a losing bet.

Price controls involve a fundamental tradeoff: lower prices today in exchange for less innovation tomorrow. Consider the “most favored nation,” or MFN, drug pricing proposal currently before ...Read more

Political tides rise and fall. They always have.

Laws change. Priorities shift. Administrations come and go. Across generations, societies debate, correct course and eventually find new balance. Some long-standing norms endure because they serve the common good. Others, like the once-accepted evil of slavery, are rightly rejected as societies ...Read more

The Chicago Teachers Union has suffered another very public blow, this time at the hands of its own members.

CTU officials looking for extra money for politics had asked union members to approve a plan that was projected to yield about $8.5 million in new dues money for the CTU. Union leadership wrote that “with about 80 percent of schools ...Read more

Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government’s attention to a perennially popular fiscal scam: Ease the pressure on household budgets with a gas tax holiday. In reality, such a plan to curry favor with voters would make them, all things considered, worse off. ...Read more