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The United States’ steadfast allegiance to Ukraine during that country’s three-year war against Russia appears to be quickly disintegrating under the Trump administration. President Donald Trump on Feb. 19, 2025, ...Read more

Make Canada angry. Make Mexico angry. Make the members of NATO angry.

During the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete ...Read more

In his 1951 farewell address to Congress and the American public (known as the “old soldiers never die, they just fade away” ...Read more

Dry January may already be a distant memory, but the problems for big booze are far from receding.

The U.S. surgeon general’s advisory on the link between alcohol and cancer, the rise of weight-loss drugs that can ...Read more

The opening month of the second Trump administration has been marked by incredible speed and progress, especially toward their goal of scaling back the bloat of the federal government. The pace has left an out-of-power ...Read more

Here’s the most important yet overlooked fact about the Justice Department prosecutors who resigned rather than drop charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams: The Trump administration could have avoided the whole ...Read more

The analysis and parsing of learned lessons from the 2024 elections will continue for a long time. What did the campaigns do right and wrong? What policies will emerge from the new arrangements of power? What do the ...Read more

“Rule of Law.” I remember my first in-depth conversation about the phrase while working in Latin America—which says a lot since I took that job immediately AFTER law school.

The concept is, of course, integral to ...Read more

Before President Donald Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that the body of water should be referred to as the...Read more

Even as Hamas releases hostages and temporarily lays down its weapons, leaders of the terror group continue to make clear their intentions: No matter what happens in the Middle East, they will continue to attack Israel and...Read more

The Palisades and Eaton fires represent thousands of personal tragedies, but they also constitute a collective disaster, adding new housing shortages to California’s already massive shortfall — a catastrophe that stems...Read more

Jan. 21 marks the 15th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, a decision that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending in elections. Since that ruling, super PACs and outside spending ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In all of California, there may be no better political launching pad than the office of attorney general.

As the state's top cop as well as its chief consumer advocate, the attorney general resides in ...Read more

It wasn’t until after Martin Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor, ended up in a Nazi concentration camp that he realized he should have done more to help Hitler’s victims. He saw what was happening but he never thought they�...Read more

With Medicaid now consuming 10% of the federal budget and covering more than one-quarter of Americans, taming its spending growth is a top priority for fiscal conservatives. But efforts to right-size the program need to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick says he's on board with President Donald Trump's and Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul the federal government — moves the administration says target waste and abuse of taxpayers' ...Read more

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland firefighters and support personnel, fire professionals warn, leaving communities to face deadly ...Read more

"You should have never started it," President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, accusing Ukrainian leaders of having started the war with Russia. "You could have made a deal." He followed up the next day on social media, ...Read more