When Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in November 2024, corporate America took it as yet another sign that it had misjudged the political landscape. Many companies scrambled to roll back whatever remained of their DEI efforts and watered down sustainability goals. Executives apologized for past corporate activism, saying ...Read more

Iran has experienced many communications blackouts in the immediate aftermath of uprisings but never anything like the current one.

In one recent call, with family members all outside of Iran, we swapped stories of how we’ve gotten through previous blackouts. “The 2019 blackout occurred the same weekend I emigrated from Iran,” one family ...Read more

South Dakota is a state rich in natural beauty and resources. From the granite peaks of the Black Hills to windswept prairies that stretch for miles, there is nowhere quite like home for me.

Every fall, hunters arrive to pursue the Chinese Ring-Necked Pheasant, our state bird. In days past, a different kind of hunter also frequented our state: ...Read more

California has a problem. It's not homelessness, a lack of housing or the state's increasing unaffordability, all of which have been documented at length.

It's truth decay.

If you believe that information is the taproot of knowledge and expanding personal vistas is key to learning, there's a case to be made that the great Golden State — ...Read more

For months now, the Trump administration has pushed a reckless policy agenda on housing and homelessness, with particular focus on the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Instead of improving efficiency and effectiveness, these decisions by the administration and HUD have overwhelmed and confused frontline workers who rely on federal ...Read more

Thousands of dogs from around the globe will travel to New York for the 150th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show—a spectacle that rewards deformities and fuels an overpopulation crisis that costs millions of dogs the chance to ever know a family.

For a century and a half, Westminster has glorified exaggerated features that leave dogs struggling...Read more

Stop asking me if Republicans in Congress have finally reached their limit and are on the verge of breaking with President Donald Trump. They haven’t and they’re not.

Granted, it’s a fair question.

Trump is testing just how far he can push congressional Republicans without triggering a backlash. There are his threats to take Greenland ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Union and activist group leaders stirred a kerfuffle this week by pressing Twin Cities business owners to go along with an “economic blackout” on Friday to protest the ongoing crackdown by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents around the state.

Trying to do right in the face of wrong, these organizations are creating ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s phone, laptops and a smart watch last week represents an unacceptable and unconstitutional intrusion on the rights of journalists. The First Amendment affords members of the media specific protections against laws infringing on their work, and court cases ...Read more

Forget all of the monarchical gold doodads and childish plaques dissing Democratic presidents that now defile the White House, thanks to President Donald Trump. Ignore his egomaniacal addition of his name on the Kennedy Center. Such travesties are easily undone once he's gone.

Alas, the same can't be said for the incalculable damage that Trump ...Read more

What's the absolute best way to give Gov. Gavin Newsom free publicity and a worldwide audience?

Freeze him out at Davos, where the rich and powerful are meeting in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. The Trump administration is learning the hard way, in real time, that petty comes with a price — in this case, being laughed at by, well, ...Read more

Better late than never: One year into the second presidency of Donald Trump, the world has reached an inflection point, as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, made explicit in his speech at an economic summit in Davos. Having tried and failed to appease Trump’s imperialist bullying, middle powers such as his own country must and will ...Read more

The apologies have begun. Great. But that’s just the starting point for what’s really needed: a community conversation in South Florida about hate speech.

In case you haven’t heard, a video began circulating last week that appears to show a group of controversial influencers partying in a Miami Beach nightclub as the club plays Kanye West...Read more

We’ve reached the point in America’s polarization story where not even churches are sacred spaces.

Protesters angry about the fatal shooting of Renee Good and the increased presence of federal agents in the Minneapolis area crossed a line when they entered Cities Church in St. Paul and disrupted Sunday worship.

Videos posted online show ...Read more

A record 45% of American adults now identify as political independents, according to new Gallup polling — up from 33% in 1990. That’s a big change.

As the ranks of the politically homeless grow, the share of Americans who call themselves Democrat or Republican continues to shrink. That’s hardly surprising.

Both parties increasingly ...Read more

The current trajectory for college sports is unsustainable. Big-revenue sports such as football and basketball have undergone massive transformations over the past decade, facilitated by a number of policy changes. Yet the changes they’ve undergone provide a clue as to how to salvage them.

The transfer portal was created in 2018 to facilitate...Read more

Now that I know how fond chatbots are of the em dash — the thing I just used to convey a thought that intruded on but is connected to the main sentence — I have a confession to make.

It’s in part my fault, apparently. Watch out for the semicolon, too; I sprinkle them like salt.

I’m one of those authors whose books AI ate for lunch a ...Read more

There’s only one way to describe President Donald Trump’s fixation with seizing Greenland: madness.

It’s a preoccupation that’s untethered from reality and lacks any rational justification. Indeed, none of the shifting rationales offered by the Trump administration makes any sense — particularly the supposed national security grounds ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s renewed interest in Greenland has triggered the predictable chorus of elite disbelief. Pundits scoff. European officials bristle. Commentators frame the idea as fanciful or provocative. Strip away the noise, however, and the case is simple: U.S. leadership in Greenland is strategically sound, increasingly urgent, and ...Read more

In the move to obliterate diversity, equity and inclusion, one word — merit — has stood out as an effective cudgel. The president’s executive orders claim to restore “meritocracy” and “merit-based opportunity” from the scourge of DEI.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth condemns the “toxic ideological garbage” of inclusive ...Read more