For 14 seasons right up to his first run for president, Donald Trump was the star of his own reality shows, "The Apprentice" and then "The Celebrity Apprentice." The shows stopped, but Trump as president is still creating his own reality.

When so many Americans say they've tuned him out — like a bad TV episode — the metaphor is an apt one. ...Read more

There's a comic trope beloved by playwrights, novelists and screenwriters about the fighters all suited up for battle, only to discover that their adversary refuses to play.

A real-life example of this stratagem unfolded Wednesday on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., convened a committee hearing aimed at trapping Dr. Anthony Fauci into...Read more

It’s terrible what’s going on with Haitians and Syrians who have been living under a special designation known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

They’ve literally been in panic mode since last month’s U.S. Supreme Court 6-3 ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip away their ability to legally work and be ...Read more

The Trump administration on Monday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution and allow the implementation of an executive order that would severely restrict voting by mail nationwide. Even high school civics students know elections are the dominion of the states, but President Donald Trump naturally believes that power should ...Read more

The Republican desire to turn the clock back to some (largely mythical) halcyon period of yore is well-known. President Donald Trump often has expressed his admiration for the 1890s in America, an era of high tariffs. The conservative assault on women's reproductive rights harks back to the time before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in ...Read more

The Trump administration recently said it wants to “clean up” the No Surprises Act, the law that ended surprise billing for medical emergencies but opened up the healthcare system to exploitation. Now, a law that does a lot of good for individual patients could wind up raising costs for everyone.

To understand what went so wrong, ...Read more

Nearly half of all American workers today are college-educated adults, with many holding jobs for which their degrees are no longer enough to help them to remain effective or sometimes even employable. Now, artificial intelligence is accelerating the issues, technological shifts and investor pressures that white-collar work has faced for decades...Read more

“The reason Congress needs to act,” Sen. Ted Cruz told us Monday, “is that Congress screwed this up in the first place.”

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was talking about college sports. More specifically, he was railing against the infusion of massive amounts of money into one sector of...Read more

The U.S. Census Bureau said July 9 that it received 531,423 business applications in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, capping what was for the first half of the year the highest sustained rate of such applications in the 22-year history of the series. The surge is being interpreted as the first real evidence of an AI-driven entrepreneurial ...Read more

The calendar for the 2028 primaries that Democrats tentatively approved last week flips the racial dynamics of their old presidential nominating process — and maps a path to an epic confrontation between progressives and centrists.

From 1972 through 2020, Democrats empowered Iowa and New Hampshire — two small, preponderantly White and ...Read more

Should the price of your groceries depend on what a retailer knows about your shopping habits or your neighborhood? How would you feel if the person behind you was charged less for the same tank of gas?

That’s the reality dynamic pricing threatens to create. Dynamic pricing, often called surveillance or algorithmic pricing, allows ...Read more

Summer is the season of beaches, lakes, bays and family vacations. We head to the shore to swim, kayak, paddleboard and enjoy the beauty of the water. But while we’re busy making memories, it’s worth remembering one simple fact: When we’re in the water, we’re visitors in someone else’s home.

Beneath the surface lives an astonishing ...Read more

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice withdrew subpoenas that would have required reporters from the New York Times to turn over phone records and testify in court about their sources on security concerns related to President Donald Trump’s new Air Force One. The move came during a hearing in which a federal judge sharply criticized the ...Read more

OPEC looks like it might be coming undone. Major members have threatened to leave, and one already has. This could eventually mean more global oil supplies, which will mean lower gasoline prices here at home.

OPEC started in the 1960s explicitly to keep oil prices high by cartelizing production. Its members intentionally pump less oil to create...Read more

Price changes naturally occur in a competitive, free-market economy, as in the United States. Prices are the mechanism for allocating scarce resources, and they change constantly to reflect shifts in supply and demand.

The term “dynamic pricing,” as used in today’s sophisticated world, refers to the automatic, continuous adjustment of ...Read more

Temporary Protected Status has expired for more than 300,000 Haitians and Syrians, leaving thousands in New York and around the country vulnerable and unmoored after sometimes decades here, all to please Stephen Miller and Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant zealotry.

We know what isn’t going to happen: these people are not going to just up and ...Read more

For more than a dozen years, Minnesota has put public money into a promise: that if we ask farmers politely and offer them a modest financial incentive, they’ll strengthen conservation efforts to better protect Minnesota’s lakes and rivers from agricultural pollution.

So far, the state has spent $32 million on that promise through the ...Read more

Those of us of a certain age remember the grainy security videos on Sept. 11, 2001, when bored and inattentive private screeners let murderers and hijackers through checkpoints. That led Congress to create the federal Transportation Security Administration with widespread support from Americans who never wanted to see that happen again.

But ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Every election produces a campaign strategist whose victory bestows upon them, for at least a little while, the unofficial title of reigning political genius.

James Carville, Karl Rove, David Axelrod and Stephen K. Bannon have all worn the crown.

For many years, and many election cycles, California's reigning political ...Read more

It seemed like Julie Felss Masino had saved her job as chief executive officer of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.

After a logo change ensnared the restaurant chain in the culture wars, Masino had the company back on track. The stock has more than doubled year-to-date, making Cracker Barrel the S&P Composite 1500 Restaurants Index’s ...Read more