The Trump administration’s removal of the multicolor gay pride flag from the federal Stonewall National Monument in Greenwich Village insults history and must be reversed. That flag has to fly again at Stonewall, the birthplace of the movement for LGBTQ rights.

The reason for hauling down the banner is ostensibly a directive issued last month...Read more

President Donald Trump always provokes outrage on the regular occasions when he descends into overt public racism, as he did last week by reposting a video that portrayed Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

But Trump’s bigger threat to race relations in America is coming through actions that attract much less attention — such as the federal ...Read more

The hardest part about being locked up in his own home, says Fermin, is seeing his young daughters cry.

Ever since federal agents swarmed Minnesota two months ago, Fermin and his wife and their two girls have hardly left their tiny Shakopee house. The family’s fear of being deported has cramped their ability to work and live, and their ...Read more

“Do you think you’re going to hell, Mr. Lyons?”

That question was put to Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who, along with Rodney Scott, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, testified before the House Committee on ...Read more

Is Mike Johnson stupid?

The five-term Louisiana congressman earned a law degree and maneuvered his way to become speaker of the House. That requires a certain mental aptitude.

However, wanting that job, which entails bowing and scraping to President Donald Trump while herding an unruly GOP conference with an eyelash-thin majority, does tend to...Read more

In 1995, a retired insurance executive named Walter Kaye recommended a friend’s daughter for an unpaid internship at the White House. You will remember her name: Monica Lewinsky.

But you probably don’t remember Kaye, who had contributed about $350,000 to the Democratic National Committee. He had advised Bill Clinton on how to use his ...Read more

“USA! USA! USA!”

Some may have just read that chant with less enthusiasm and pride than in previous Olympics.

It can be difficult for many American sports fans to shout or think it when the country is being led by an administration that authorizes violent immigration raids and encourages a toxic political culture. But there is good reason ...Read more

The administration is right to argue that enforcing immigration laws gets criminal aliens out of communities. It is exceedingly unwise for jurisdictions to release undocumented immigrants from their jails as a matter of policy, even after Immigration and Customs Enforcement asks them to hold them.

The reasons for enforcing the law go well ...Read more

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sells his “$30 by 2030” minimum wage plan as a lifeline for the working class, but it’s really a career-ender for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who hold entry-level jobs.

While reducing poverty is a bipartisan objective, socialist wage floors are a utopian vision that may create�...Read more

Immigration has become one of America’s sharpest flashpoints, increasingly framed not only as a border issue but as a public safety threat. In recent weeks, that framing has turned into real-world confrontation.

In Minneapolis, federal immigration agents fatally shot U.S. citizen and Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti during an enforcement ...Read more

America’s economic strength rests on its ability to attract talent, reward hard work, and out-innovate global competitors. Today, as the country faces labor shortages and an increasingly competitive world economy, carefully controlled immigration is not just an economic policy choice — it is a strategic necessity.

If the United States wants...Read more

When the Russian army unleashed its large-scale air and ground invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, there was widespread expectation that the war would wrap up in Moscow’s favor relatively quickly.

During the war’s first week, the U.S. intelligence community delivered an assessment to the administration of President Joe Biden that Russian...Read more

Imagine you run a business. Sales of your primary line are foundering because you’re not producing quality products. You’ve spent handsomely to improve it, but troubles persist. Many customers are deeply unsatisfied.

But a small division within your company has come up with a superior product. Customers begin to flock to that creation at ...Read more

Florida voters adopted the current state Constitution in 1968 to create a modern democracy. Nothing lasts forever.

It brought self-governing home rule to cities and counties, which were mere puppets of a backward, rural-dominated Legislature that met every other year. It required population-based redistricting every 10 years, which the so-...Read more

President Donald Trump says he knows nothing of the racist post that went out on his social media account. We're skeptical, considering the president's juvenile impulses and predilection for crudity. A meme depicting former President Barack and Michelle Obama as apes is not outside his range.

If he's telling the truth, and a staffer is ...Read more

For 15 years, Politico had annually named its “Lie of the Year.”

But by December of last year the deceit was so unceasing that the publication named 2025 “The Year of Lies.”

PolitiFact’s Editor-in-Chief Katie Sanders explained the shift by writing, “The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025.” Online forums, she wrote,...Read more

A Kamala Harris-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential ticket is gaining some traction among desperate Democrats but it could be the best case scenario for Republicans in 2028.

Harris – trounced by Donald Trump in 2024 – is not ruling out another run and teasing a comeback, aided by the fact that few other viable contenders are emerging from...Read more