The high desert is not typically a place you look for a wave. But in the vast expanse between the Sierra Nevada and Utah border, a not-exactly-wide-open race for Congress is testing whether a blue wave, should one come November, is ankle-high or something more akin to a political tsunami.

Nevada's 2nd District has been represented by just four ...Read more

Some of the most powerful investigations into the legacy of slavery have been published in the past decade or so — Nikole Hannah-Jones' "The 1619 Project" in 2020, and Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Case for Reparations" in the Atlantic in 2014.

Both pieces, you could argue, are examples of "wokeness," that is, the awareness of the ways in which systemic...Read more

The political movie of the year tells the story of an odyssey: A grizzled war veteran in exile, desperate to return home to his family and country, leading a rump of an army through impossible odds as massacres, vengeance and mutiny rage.

No, not Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but La Bataille de Gaulle: A two-part World War II drama about ...Read more

A sliver of good news out of the Iran conflict: The United States has had increasing success getting oil tankers out of the Strait of Hormuz.

The New York Times reported this week that, since May, the U.S. military “has played a crucial role in getting millions of barrels of oil through the strait, helping to keep oil prices from rising ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice keeps breaking the law in appointing U.S. attorneys, seeking to install unqualified, but loyal stooges without Senate confirmation or the consent of the local federal judges. This is because Trump wrongly sees the DOJ as his personal law firm, not an independent arm of the government. And new ...Read more

Good night, Sara.

Of all the sentences, passages and lyrics I heard, read or sang on my family's 2,000-mile trek across much of America — from the Midwest to the Southwest — those three words stayed with me most.

Good night, Sara.

The waitress at the Church Street Cafe in Old Town Albuquerque told me to say them before I left, otherwise ...Read more

Trickle-down policies facilitated the transition from the mid-20th century "Great Compression “characterized by low-wage inequality and strong labor unions—to the " Great Divide" by shifting the economic focus from mass purchasing power to capital accumulation through massive tax cuts and deregulation.

The Great Compression

Following World...Read more

Peptides, the short chains of amino acids that help regulate biological functions, have become the latest obsession in health, fitness, and longevity.

Online clinics and wellness influencers promote them as ways to heal injuries, reduce inflammation, improve metabolism, sharpen thinking, and slow aging.

Today, these substances are part of a ...Read more

Scientists are on the cusp of fulfilling a decades-long quest: to use vaccines to teach the immune system to spot and destroy cancer cells.

News that an mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Merck & Co. and Moderna Inc. kept melanoma from returning in a large, late-stage trial marks a critical next chapter for a technology beleaguered by post-...Read more

Democrats are trying to kill food-stamp reforms passed as part of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Republicans should stand firm.

This month, the Farm Bill failed to move out of a Senate committee thanks to two GOP absences that allowed Democrats to hold up the legislation. At issue are changes to the Supplemental ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday held a meeting at the White House to celebrate the heroic action of 16-year-old lifeguard Ryder Williams, who saved the life of 10-year-old Nathaniel Rai when the boy was swept off his feet along the Santa Cruz coast. A video of the rescue went viral.

“He’s a real hero. I don’t know if I’d do it. I ...Read more

President Donald Trump has authored a whole anthology of aphorisms demonstrating his deep disdain for the military he commands.

He derided those killed in action as “suckers and losers,” said in reference to former prisoner of war John McCain that he prefers troops who weren’t captured, and said his “own personal Vietnam” was ...Read more

Galina Bobreneva was passing through Hollywood Burbank Airport last month with her husband when she was pulled aside by two federal agents. After 15 minutes of questioning, she was taken away in handcuffs to an unmarked vehicle. Bobreneva was arrested, accused of overstaying her visa and sent to a detention facility in the Mojave Desert for two ...Read more

Last month, the tech world was shaken by an event that sounded like a science fiction plot: Artificial intelligence agents escaped from their closed testing environment, accessed the open internet and hacked into another company’s system without human knowledge. These AI agents from OpenAI, a leading U.S. tech company, had been tasked to solve...Read more

The freedom of the press is one of America’s greatest protections against unchecked power. But freedom carries responsibility, and journalism cannot demand the public’s trust simply because the Constitution protects our right to publish.

We must earn it.

That responsibility has become more urgent as confidence in journalism has collapsed. ...Read more

In St. Louis, as nationally, the debate over data centers is raging. We don’t presume to settle that debate here. But one axiom applies: Secrecy and behind-the-scenes political pressure around data center public policy decisions is a surefire way to lose whatever public support the growing industry has.

For months, city officials have ...Read more

Todd Blanche, a onetime personal lawyer for the president, squeaked through Senate confirmation recently by a single vote. Asked Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether the Justice Department he now leads will always act independently of the White House, Blanche declared flatly, “No, I’m not going to pledge that.”

His demonstrated...Read more

I liked what I knew about the DSA. I liked what Democratic DSA candidates were saying (with some exceptions). Because I believe strongly that our government must be more about the people in order to be true to our founding principles, and industry should have less power. And so I was in agreement with Democrats who are socialists (with a small "...Read more

He’s become world famous for embracing America’s enemies and backstabbing our allies. Yet, President Donald Trump outdid himself Sunday — on the eve of joint military exercises with South Korea — when he announced the U.S. was scaling back participation to avoid offending his great friend, the nuclear-armed North Korean dictator Kim Jong...Read more

Florida demonstrated on Tuesday that the Democratic Party’s identity crisis is alive and well. It’s the latest signal that while the midterm election will be a referendum on the president’s performance, it’s also a major test of the Democratic Party’s ability to bridge its growing divide.

David Jolly, the moderate former Republican ...Read more