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

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz started the new year Monday by ending his bid for a historic third four-year term, a wise and selfless decision that reshapes the 2026 governor’s race and improves DFL chances at holding the office.

His departure wasn’t a shock, but it was still surprising because it’s not easy for anyone to reconsider and retreat,...Read more

More than 30 people died while being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2025, marking it as the deadliest year for those held in custody by the agency in two decades. At least five of the detainees who died were Asian nationals: Chaofeng Ge, Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, Tien Xuan Phan, Kaiyin Wong and Huabing Xie. So far their deaths have ...Read more

A little over a year after running on the Democratic Party’s national ticket, Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday he is dropping his bid for reelection as governor of Minnesota, saying the scope of the state’s brazen fraud problems involving its administration of benefit programs demands his full attention as governor.

That was the right ...Read more

Right now, our attention is riveted on what happens next in Venezuela, but there’s a broader development that the U.S. — and Miami in particular — should be watching carefully: President Trump is using the attack as an opportunity to advance a “might makes right” new world order, and Colombia and Cuba are potentially in the crosshairs....Read more

Every year around the holidays, I’m reminded of the late, great Wall Street strategist Byron Wien’s annual “Ten Surprises” list, his contrarian takes on issues of the day published every new year. Always thoughtful and entertaining, Wien would lay out 10 scenarios he believed the average investor would consider improbable, but that he ...Read more

It may come to your attention that we are inundated with technological hype. Self-driving cars, human-like robots and AI chatbots all have been the subject of sometimes outlandishly exaggerated predictions and promises.

So we should be thankful for Rodney Brooks, an Australian-born technologist who has made it one of his missions in life to ...Read more

Today is the first day for New York City public schools back from winter break, with a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, and a new schools chancellor, Kamar Samuels.

And what is also new is that Mamdani turned heel on his prior wrongheaded opposition to mayoral control of schools, announcing his support for this crucial power in tandem with his ...Read more

As the regular application deadlines approach this month, getting into college is top of mind for many high school seniors. But students assume that if a college admits them, it means the school has accurately assessed that they can handle the work. That is hardly the case anymore.

Even though COVID-19 lockdowns no longer prevent students from ...Read more

An official with the Department of Homeland Security recently suggested that following or recording federal law enforcement officers “sure sounds like obstruction of justice.” The statement was given to Reason magazine in response to a direct question, was confirmed in writing and followed by a warning that DHS will prosecute such conduct �...Read more

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s removal from power following his capture in a U.S. military operation rests on a mix of long-standing criminal cases against him, nonrecognition of his presidency by many democratic countries and the U.S. president’s broad, and often controversial, war powers.

Maduro had been under U.S. indictment ...Read more

America’s incursion into Venezuela for the extraction of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to the U.S. for trial was illegal under both international and U.S. law. Announcing that the U.S. intends to “run” Venezuela so as to benefit from its oil and mineral resources is also nakedly unlawful. The most basic building block of all ...Read more

Last week, Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro was on stage in front of his supporters, waving his hands and dancing, seemingly oblivious to the danger that awaited him. Monday, that same man was a criminal defendant incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York’s Brooklyn borough, having just been arraigned on drug trafficking...Read more