The stretch of Interstate 5 that runs through the heart of California’s sunbaked Central Valley would be forgettable if not for the stench of manure. Cattle ranches, some tightly packed with livestock, sprawl to the horizon.

As demand for meat continues to soar, it’s hard to blame these hardworking ranchers for earning a living. Yet the ...Read more

There are many intriguing mansions in the great house of MAGA but perhaps the most intriguing of all has its own name: MAHA or Make America Healthy Again. America undeniably suffers from a serious health crisis: Almost half of Americans have high blood pressure, three-quarters are obese or overweight, and 15% have type 2 diabetes. Previous ...Read more

Fort Knox, home to much of the nation’s gold reserves, doesn’t get many visitors. That may soon change: President Donald Trump and his sidekick, Elon Musk, claim there’s a chance someone has stolen the shiny stuff. They want to visit and see it with their own eyes.

It’s tempting to dismiss this demand as paranoid raving, but history ...Read more

“Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country!”

So began a recent post by President Donald Trump on social media. He seeks to end the practice that allows a judge in a single district to issue an order that blocks his policies from taking effect nationwide. His proposal is ...Read more

The White House claims American companies are losing business abroad because U.S. law prohibits them from paying bribes. That’s just one of the fictions underpinning its ill-advised decision to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a move that threatens to unravel decades of progress in global anti-corruption efforts.

The ...Read more

On March 15, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive details about an imminent attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen — including timing and targets — on Signal, an unclassified commercial app. On Monday, a journalist revealed he had been accidentally added to this Signal group. In the days since, the story has snowballed into the familiar...Read more

One factor contributing to the complacency that Americans have long held about the strength of our democracy has been the conviction that, should it come under threat, institutions such as our universities would fight to safeguard our political norms.

Columbia University, through a thoroughly pusillanimous capitulation to a multi-million-dollar...Read more

Ultra-processed foods, or UPFs for short, are suddenly the hot health concept — the new antihero in global diets. The topic is exploding both in scientific literature and on social media. There’s even an AI system to help consumers select less-processed foods while shopping.

But once you get past the important and obvious idea that junk ...Read more

Europe finally appears serious about rearming. German legislators have agreed to exempt defense from constitutional limits on debt spending. The European Commission is urging members to raise military budgets to 3% of gross domestic product and issue joint debt to fund weapons purchases — moves that could unlock more than €800 billion ($867 ...Read more

Democrats continue to exhibit that they’ve learned little from their November election drubbing. The latest example comes from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who this month went on “The View” to criticize productive Americans.

Schumer told the hosts, “The Republican Party is a different kettle of fish than it used to be, and that...Read more

It was the “belly tap heard around the world.”

When former President George W. Bush gave his successor Barack Obama the playful tap at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral in January, the interaction went viral.

Why should a simple act of civility among people of different political backgrounds be so noteworthy?

Unfortunately, we have become ...Read more

President Donald Trump has not yet completed 100 days in office, but for Democratic governors, the shadow primary for 2028 is underway as they test messages and search for ways to flip the script from the defeatism of their party in Congress.

Into this fray has stepped Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a progressive billionaire pitching his potent ...Read more

The arrest and recent imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu sent shockwaves through Turkey, marking a decisive shift toward full autocracy. On March 19, police officers — acting on instructions from the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP — detained İmamoğlu. By Sunday, the popular opposition figure was imprisoned — ...Read more

“I’m a veteran and you don’t give a f— about me! … You don’t get to take away our rights. You don’t get to do this to us!” These were the words of disabled veteran Jay Carey before sheriffs hauled him out of a Republican town hall in Asheville, North Carolina.

At a town hall in Kootenai County, Idaho, Teresa Borrenpohl spoke up ...Read more

Jeff Pearlman is one of the most successful sportswriters of his generation. His must-read articles appeared in Sports Illustrated and ESPN in the 2000s before he switched over to penning best-selling books on everything from Bo Jackson to the 1986 New York Mets to the Showtime-era Lakers, the latter which was turned into the recent HBO series "...Read more

On March 5, the mayors of Boston, Denver, Chicago and New York were summoned to Congress to justify their cities’ sanctuary status. The mayors’ explanations were interrupted by questions rooted in inaccurate, racist stereotypes about undocumented immigrants, but they stood their ground.

“I am here to make sure that the city of Boston is ...Read more

In a sweeping “Dear Colleague” letter in February, the U.S. Department of Education claimed that in the last four years, our educational institutions “have discriminated against students on the basis of race, including white and Asian students.” To combat this discrimination, the letter asserts that educational institutions must halt ...Read more

In trying to distract from their alarming incompetence of having Jeff Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic, in their Signal group chat about bombing Yemen, top Trump administration officials lied that there were no military secrets divulged to Goldberg.

That collapsed this week when Goldberg published the details of the strikes, ...Read more

I feel like I spend all of my time lately beating up on the Trump administration. But as they say in the military, it’s a target-rich environment.

The Trump team’s latest offense is also its most dangerous — a group chat on the encrypted, but unclassified, text messaging app Signal, finalizing the details of an attack on Houthi rebels in ...Read more

The Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, led by an unelected billionaire and supported by the Donald Trump administration, continues its bulldozer approach to our federal government.

As we careen forward, an essential food for thought is an awareness of the global and historical perspectives that underscore how our current leaders' ...Read more