Every time we stream a movie, upload photos, send emails or ask artificial intelligence to answer a question, the action feels effortless. The internet appears weightless — floating somewhere in an invisible “cloud.”

But the cloud is not weightless at all.

Behind every digital activity lies a vast physical infrastructure of data centers,...Read more

As it turns out, we aren’t quite so divided as a nation.

Again and again, surveys show that Americans agree that billionaires and corporations don’t need more tax breaks. We agree that we want quality, affordable health care, housing, child care and education. We agree that our children should not go hungry. We agree on equal rights for all...Read more

I am a proud Democrat, and I have always proudly supported Israel. And because I support Israel, I support the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, though my journey there has not been a straight line.

I was an AIPAC supporter from the late 1980s through 2017, when I stepped away over the organization’s opposition to President Barack ...Read more

From the moment Donald Trump began the first legacy-shaping lap of his 2.0 presidency, things started looking and feeling nothing like he wanted them to be.

Every day began feeling like a desperate uphill effort. Yet his polls kept tumbling downhill. So he began doing more of his usual things – bragging and making up whatever facts he needed ...Read more

In April 2022, my mother-in-law, Karla, went for a routine physical therapy visit for carpal tunnel pain. The clinic was full and nearly turned her away. Only after she insisted that something felt wrong did a therapist send her to the emergency room.

A CT scan revealed a mass in her brain.

Karla was 50 years old. She was a first-generation ...Read more

Femininity, we were told in 2025, is just as “toxic” as masculinity. Women — or perhaps, liberal feminism or maybe feminine vices — “ruined” the workplace. Then again, women were also recalcitrantly “leaning out” of the workplaces they had “culturally neutered.”

Last year was the SnackWell’s year of opining about gender in...Read more

As we learn more about what led to the tragic shooting death of Loyola University freshman Sheridan Gorman, political agendas are threatening to subsume the grief we feel on her family’s behalf and what we can learn from all that preceded that fateful night to do a better job keeping Chicago safe.

News that a Venezuelan migrant, 25-year-old ...Read more

No more fitting tribute exists of Sunshine Week, the annual tribute to open government, than a judge’s refusal to let Pete Hegseth manipulate the Pentagon press.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said the policy he struck down favored journalists “willing to publish only stories that are favorable or spoon-fed” by Department of Defense ...Read more

On Saturday, President Donald Trump tossed a big, loud threat Iran’s way: If Iran doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz in 48 hours, the United States will start bombing its nuclear power plants. But on Monday morning, as the deadline neared, Trump reversed course. The U.S. strikes, he wrote, are now off for a five-day period because U.S. and ...Read more

President Donald J. Trump gathered Republican lawmakers in his Florida golf course on March 9, encouraging them to push the controversial SAVE Act through Congress. The proposed law requires “documentary proof of United States citizenship” to vote in federal elections, among other things.

“If you don’t get it, big trouble, my opinion,�...Read more

You should have to spend your own money to buy soda. Some people disagree.

This month, the National Center for Law and Economic Justice sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That agency runs the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which is often called food stamps. The goal of SNAP is to help low-income Americans purchase food.

But ...Read more

America cannot function with travelers stuck in security lines for three and four hours, as was reportedly the case Monday at several major U.S. airports, compounding the weekend problems and snarling the travel of business travelers and spring breakers alike.

Transportation Security Administration employees cannot be expected to go weeks or ...Read more

What’s going on in the $3 trillion private credit sector? To understand, let’s start with a sampling of the recent news that’s put investors on edge:

•In February, Blue Owl Capital Inc. gated withdrawals from a retail credit vehicle, meaning investors who wanted their money back were told to wait. Then, it was forced to defend a sale of...Read more

The White House has scheduled a party for Friday and you, taxpayer, will be picking up the check – in more ways than one.

The Celebration of Agriculture event at the South Lawn is intended to “shine a spotlight on the men and women growing our food, fiber and fuel.” Unfortunately, the spotlight also will illuminate trouble in the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump claims Gov. Gavin Newsom is unfit to be president because he has a “learning disability.” It’s a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The centuries-old pot-kettle idiom points out hypocrisy — as when one person accuses another of a flaw that afflicts himself.

California’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Surely you haven’t forgotten those mad COVID weeks of scrambling for the most elementary necessities: the masks, the baby formula, the toilet paper?

Maybe we should start to think of that as … practice.

Twice in the last 50 years, crises in the Mideast, one of them centered in Iran, have turned Americans into frantic hunter-...Read more

The U.S. government’s trade lawyers are working overtime. So what if the work in question requires more imagination than it does expertise?

Over the past fortnight, investigations into 16 countries for supposed manufacturing “excess capacity” have been launched under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act. The office of U.S. Trade ...Read more

It’s tax season, and millions of American households are settling last year’s bill — but a much larger one is coming. For all the conversations taking place about trillions of dollars in accumulating government debt, we rarely talk about how the costs show up in everyday life.

Sometimes, this new tax bill shows up through future tax hikes...Read more

Late February brought two stories that most Americans filed under separate categories. In Kansas, the state government invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents, erasing legal identities with the stroke of a pen.

In New York, a Columbia University neuroscience student named Ellie Aghayeva was taken from ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants — like carrots and onions — produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots.

The prolonged tally has become as much a part of electioneering in the Golden State...Read more