As we kick off a new year, it’s a good time to assess President Donald Trump’s performance on the economy. He came into office a year ago with his “America First” philosophy. He promised to bring down the cost of living, create jobs, reduce illegal immigration at the border, enact big corporate and income tax cuts, and more. So, how is ...Read more

Former vice presidential contender and current aw-shucks Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced this week that he won't run for a third term, dogged by a scandal over child care funds that may or may not be going to fraudsters.

It's a politically driven mess that not coincidentally focuses on a Black immigrant community, tying the real problem of ...Read more

The muscular foreign policy of President Donald Trump is not about glory for glory’s sake. It is a clear expression of America First.

Trump’s understanding of our national interests is simple and clear: Critical assets and strategic geography are core; both must be secured for the defense and prosperity of American citizens.

It doesn’t ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign for the Nobel Peace Prize no doubt fueled his decision to launch an unprovoked invasion of Venezuela. Instead, the military strike is more likely to yoke him to a bipartisan history of presidential adventurism abroad, from Democrat Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam fiasco to Republican George W. Bush’s Iraq debacle...Read more

As the new year gets underway, Donald Trump wants to take the food out of millions of children’s mouths while depriving them and their parents of other social services, by supposedly freezing $10 billion in disbursements to Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois and Colorado going mostly to the TANF food assistance program. His excuse is ...Read more

The Biden administration spent years trying to buy votes with unconstitutional student loan bailouts, but now the Trump Department of Education is on a mission to get that taxpayer money repaid. That includes garnishing the wages of millions of borrowers who haven’t made any payments on their loans in almost six years. It’s about time.

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Given the administration’s actions for the past month, from shooting small boats near the shores of Venezuela, to seizing oil tankers, to acknowledging that there was a U.S. covert action underway there, the military intervention to remove Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro should come as no surprise.

But while some in Washington are ...Read more

"You are going to be the proud owner of 25 million people," the late Gen. Colin Powell told Pres. George W. Bush before the president authorized the Iraq War, according to journalist Bob Woodward. "You will own all their hopes, aspirations and problems. You'll own it all."

There are 6 million more people in Venezuela than there were in Iraq in ...Read more

In Russia’s public museums today, antiquarian statuary depicting naked Roman or Greek figures is condemned by the Kremlin as violating the country’s “deep moral traditions.” Sharing unauthorized information about Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine war is punishable by up to 15 years’ imprisonment. All things Western are canceled.

Russia is a ...Read more

The facts, familiar though they may be, deserve repeating: On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and removed from the country following a large-scale U.S. military operation involving elite forces and months of planning.

They appeared Monday in a New York court, facing charges including ...Read more

Jan. 6, 2021, should be a date that lives in infamy, like Dec. 7, 1941, and Sept. 11, 2001.

But five years after an angry mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump’s insurrection marches on.

Instead of accountability, Trump parlayed the grotesque events that unfolded on Jan. 6 into an incomprehensible return to power and profiteering.

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Listening to President Donald Trump speak on the U.S. military’s decapitation of the leadership in Venezuela, it is clear that the act was more about oil than anything else. Our brazen pursuit of the world’s largest remaining oil reserves should serve as a wake-up call to California and its waning commitment to an independent, renewable ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s approval continues to decline, expect the attitudes towards the Democratic Party to drop as well.

You read that right: Not the Republican Party, but the Democratic Party, as many Americans blame Democrats for this second Trump administration. Voters understand that the Dems were unable to put the country ahead of ...Read more

According to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Santa Claus will continue delivering bundles of joy in the new year to U.S. taxpayers, who will receive whopping tax refunds during 2026’s first half. Some $100 billion will flow from a retroactive tax cut contained in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” passed in July. And there are some special...Read more

At age 32, I began my fight with breast cancer and won after a mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation, multiple corrective surgeries and years of tamoxifen. Now, as I celebrate my 50th year of living, I can articulate the parallels between my battle with cancer and our collective fight against racism. It is shocking, painful and transformative.

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This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of its famous Doomsday Clock will move closer to midnight. It feels like a safe bet that Armageddon is drawing nearer today than it has in a long, long time.

The Doomsday Clock started almost 80 years ago, when physicists ...Read more

The third-quarter GDP report delivered a surprise that deserves applause. At a time when recession fears have lingered and economic confidence has faltered, the U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 4.3% late last year. It is the strongest growth in two years and far better than almost anyone predicted.

As Diccon Hyatt reported for ...Read more

Of all the items on the worry list of how artificial intelligence will disrupt American society, perhaps the most troublesome is its impact on old men.

Google and YouTube have already cut deeply into our usefulness as advisors to younger generations. I fear AI will finish us off.

All of the how-to knowledge we've gleaned from decades of ...Read more