California is not a consolation prize for losing the presidency, and a Kamala Harris run for governor isn’t going to inspire an electorate that is fed up with the Democratic Party’s staid-and-afraid status quo.

That being said, if Harris is going to run for governor of California — good God, get on with it already.

The former Vice ...Read more

President Donald Trump was tightly wound and unspooling with rapid rambling and redundancy, in his Oval Office event. He was working hard to convince a doubting world that he’s finally getting tough with America’s Number One enemy, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who he always told you was his friend.

On our news screens, last Monday, we saw...Read more

Homeownership has long been a hallmark of the American dream. And property taxes are part of being a homeowner. Recently, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has floated the idea of eliminating property taxes.

For Floridians who are homeowners, the end of property taxes seems like a dream come true. But the question is: At what cost?

That’s the ...Read more

The verdict against Sean “Diddy” Combs early this month sent shock waves through the feminist community. Despite harrowing testimony and video evidence of violence, jurors acquitted him of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs and his team celebrated, while many Americans mourned the death of #MeToo.

There was some consolation for those ...Read more

If only the couple caught canoodling Wednesday night on the Jumbotron at the Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts, had simply done what everyone else does in those moments at the arena or the ballpark: Thrown their hands in the air, cheered, hooped and hollered.

Then they likely would have escaped attention afterward, and Coldplay ...Read more

As we approach the 250th anniversary next year of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War that ensued, many Americans will look to the past, eager to understand how fewer than 3 million people residing in 13 colonies along the East Coast would, in two and a half centuries, become a vibrant and thriving nation ...Read more

For an entire decade now, Donald Trump has been immune to alienating his supporters — a base so loyal they’d drink bleach if he told them it would own the libs (and some probably did ).

Stormy Daniels? A spiritual growth opportunity for evangelicals to witness a modern-day King David. Inciting a Capitol riot? Boosted his Q-rating (not to ...Read more

When he signed his budget bill into law on July 4, President Donald Trump dealt a heavy blow to America’s electric vehicle industry, ending most federal support for U.S. electric vehicle manufacturing and hobbling automakers’ $100 billion effort to catch up with China, the world’s new automotive manufacturing superpower.

Now California ...Read more

He inveighs against illegal immigration in terms more appropriate for a vermin infestation. He wants all people without papers deported immediately, damn the cost. He thinks Los Angeles is a cesspool and that flying the Mexican flag in the United States is an act of insurrection. He uses the internet mostly to share crude videos and photos ...Read more

Across the country, millions of workers are being cheated out of the minimum wage or overtime pay they’ve earned. It’s an unlawful but not uncommon practice known as wage theft. The sorely insufficient funding for the U.S. Labor Department’s enforcement divisions has long hamstrung its efforts to combat high rates of employer non-...Read more

Trafficking in conspiracy theories can be dangerous for politicians. Just look at what’s happening with the Jeffrey Epstein files.

President Donald Trump spent years stoking dark narratives in which he was the only person who could destroy the “deep state,” and now his followers are refusing to accept his word and the word of Attorney ...Read more

The more you learn about PFAS — per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — the worse it gets. Though improvements in monitoring and remediation techniques are welcome, what the world needs first and foremost is a universal ban on the chemicals. In fact, we needed it yesterday.

There are more than 10,000 PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,...Read more

The message from the Trump administration to working-class Americans who want to go to college is: You’re on your own. It is part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s broad effort to scale back spending on the poor and middle class in order to finance tax breaks for the rich.

It’s also a dramatic reversal in the American compact with ...Read more

During the Great Depression, my great grandfather and other farmers in Wisconsin organized penny auctions to help prevent some of his neighbors from losing their property to foreclosure.

On the day a farm was put on the auction block, farmers in the area closed down the roads around the farm — the only people allowed to enter were the farmer ...Read more

President Donald Trump has taken to routinely maligning Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as “too late” because interest rates have been on hold at 4.25%-4.5% since he took office.

On Tuesday alone, he characteristically took to social media to demand three percentage points of rate cuts — something that is never going to happen ...Read more

As temperatures soar into the triple digits and roads buckle beneath our tires, the United States finds itself locked under a suffocating heat dome. But this isn’t just another scorching summer. It’s a consequence. So, please, let’s go vegan.

Animal agriculture is disastrously unsustainable. Methane from cows, deforestation and water-...Read more

The summer job, for decades a stepping stone toward adulthood and independence, may be going the way of the VCR for a great many teens. Progressive efforts to outlaw many entry-level jobs aren’t helping.

The New York Times reported last week that the unemployment rate for teens hit 13.4 percent in May, up a full percentage point from a year ...Read more

In an early episode of the TV series “Lost,” the plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island are running low on water. A fight breaks out, until emerging leader Jack Shephard admonishes everyone to work together.

“If we can’t live together, we’re gonna die alone,” he says.

California lawmakers contemplating our climate ...Read more

When a country like Armenia sends a film out into the world, it’s not just art. It’s a way to preserve memory, to reach a scattered diaspora. Each film offers the world stories that might otherwise be forgotten. So when President Trump proposes a 100% tariff on all films “produced in foreign lands,” the damage isn’t limited to foreign ...Read more

After believing in Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the last 10 years as trustworthy old Vlad, President Donald Trump has now correctly decided that Putin may not be the most honest of interlocutors on the world stage.

Trump made this startling discovery — decades after practically everyone else — as Putin continues pummeling Ukraine ...Read more