LOS ANGELES -- Like with cigarettes, la migra should come with a warning label: Proximity to ICE could be hazardous for your health.

From Los Angeles to Chicago, Portland and New York, the evidence is ample enough that wherever Trump sends in the immigration agency, people get hurt. And not just protesters and immigrants.

That includes 13 ...Read more

Pop quiz: Who said this?

“For too long, we’ve allowed individuals like Elon Musk to pretend as if concerns of efficiency and waste are that of the right-wing, when in fact they should be the bedrock of any progressive politics.”

You might logically answer former ambassador and now presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel, or maybe Illinois Gov....Read more

To say that President Donald Trump is unfazed by Saturday's nationwide "No Kings" rally, which vies for bragging rights as perhaps the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, is the sort of understatement too typical when describing his monarchical outrages.

Leave aside Trump's grotesque mockery of the protests — his post that night of an...Read more

On Monday, millions of internet users got a painful answer to a question few even knew to exist. The question was: What do Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Signal, United and Delta airlines and countless other web-based sites and services have in common?

The answer is: They were all brought down by a cascading glitch at a data center in northern ...Read more

The Trump administration and conservative politicians have launched a broad-reaching and effective campaign against higher education and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in particular. These attacks, often amplified by neo-conservative influencers, are not simply critiques of policy or spending. At their core, they reflect anxiety ...Read more

In October, many of us revisit favorite monster movies and slip into fun costumes—but some legends expose a darker side of humanity.

Elizabeth Báthory was a countess who allegedly tortured young women, then bathed in their blood to preserve her youth—a true symbol of vampirish vanity.

Centuries later, some beauty rituals are still ...Read more

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent approval of a second generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone has left people on both sides of the reproductive rights fight scrambling to interpret the decision. Could this be a sign that the Trump administration isn’t interested in taking federal action to further restrict abortion access?...Read more

President Donald Trump commuted the seven-year, federal prison sentence of acknowledged criminal George Santos because, as he explained in a Truth Social post late last week, the disgraced former New York congressman “had the Courage, Conviction and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!”

Democrats are sticking by Jay Jones despite ...Read more

What is the welfare state America wants, and what is the one it can afford? This is not a question Americans are ready to discuss — so much so that their elected officials have shut down the government to avoid it.

Since the 1960s, the U.S. welfare state has grown to cover not just the poor but, increasingly, the middle class. When there is a...Read more

In August, I traveled by bus, small plane, and canoe to the sacred headwaters of the Amazon, in Ecuador. It’s a place with very few roads, yet like many areas in the rainforest, foreign business interests have made contact with its peoples and in just the last decade have rapidly changed the landscape, scarring it with mines or clearcutting ...Read more

Even as he grudgingly surrendered his dukedom last week amid a ceaseless onslaught of allegations about his sexual and financial affairs, Prince Andrew managed to remain graceless and obnoxious.

“I’ve decided, as I always have, to put my duty to my family and country first,” said the man who’s rarely appeared to put anyone else ahead of...Read more

Don’t believe the headlines. The government shutdown is not really about Obamacare. That’s just the pretext.

The shutdown is a tactic employed by the Democratic congressional leadership to create a high-profile platform from which to oppose President Donald Trump. More dangerously, it’s a political trap for the GOP, aimed at influencing ...Read more

Creating fear and panic seemed more the goal of Tuesday’s federal raid on Canal St. than any type of legitimate enforcement action. And in that it succeeded.

For the last few months, New Yorkers have watched militarized federal immigration operations play out in cities from Los Angeles to Chicago to Portland with a mixture of trepidation and ...Read more

Last month, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing on what many consider to be an unfolding mental health crisis among teens.

Two of the witnesses were parents of children who’d committed suicide in the last year, and both believed that AI chatbots played a significant role in abetting their children�...Read more

Republicans' hostility to Social Security in general has been well-documented over the years. Less widely recognized is their antagonism for one component of the program: disability coverage.

As a target, disability had ebbed as disability rolls declined, along with unemployment, during the economic recovery of the last few years. But it's back...Read more

Katie Abraham is my daughter. I tragically lost her to a drunken driver on Jan. 19, when she was 20 years old. She loved — and was loved — by so many people. With her magnetic energy, Katie was the person people wanted to be around. She was the friend people turned to and the teammate who made every practice fun and inspiring.

Losing a ...Read more

Among the small army of prospects who've eyed the California governorship, none seemed more qualified than Toni Atkins.

After serving on the San Diego City Council, she moved on to Sacramento, where Atkins led both the Assembly and state Senate, one of just three people in history — and the first in 147 years — to head both houses of ...Read more

The pantheon of problematic presidential pardons has always cut across partisan lines.

Former President Joe Biden’s pre-emptive pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, was among the most brazen examples ever of a president putting family loyalty above presidential duty. Barack Obama’s commutation of the prison sentence of Army private and document...Read more

A ladder truck, an angle-grinder, a maxi-scooter, and seven minutes. That appears to be all it took for thieves to nab priceless jewelry from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum. The vulnerability of this cornerstone of French soft power adds to the country’s sense of malaise, and fingers are being pointed over apparent security ...Read more

American universities are at a crossroads.

Their business model, which is overwhelmingly dependent on the twin pillars of federal grants and taxpayer-backed student loans, is failing in the face of declining public trust, financial malfeasance, a looming demographic cliff, and their publicly acknowledged discrimination, contrary to civil rights...Read more