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For Olha Burdeina's fellow Ukrainians, beginning their fifth year under Russian assault, "the silence is loud." Burdeina, a Ukrainian student at Brown University, writes that "(i)t is the moment between the siren and the explosion that makes you listen closely. I've learned to live in this silence without anybody asking whether I want to know ...Read more

Oil, oil, oil. The war with Iran has oil prices soaring. And no thanks, President Trump, for your other war, the one against green energy.

As Americans freak over gas prices, they are taking another look at electric vehicles. But guess what? Most domestic automakers dropped ambitious investments toward that end, leaving car lots bereft of ...Read more

Just days after being assaulted in her home, L.B., a client at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, was given 14 days to leave her home. Another client, N.S., was denied housing under a blanket "no-evictions" policy that disproportionately excludes Black women. When fair housing protections fail, women -- especially low-income women, women of ...Read more

Why are we there? Is it because Israel was going to go there first/anyway, or because we wanted Israel to go? What are we doing there? Did we really bomb a girls' school? How could we have made such a mistake? How can we not take responsibility if we did?

You hear it all from this administration -- conflicting explanations, denials that have ...Read more

Hello, Occupied France, from your Favorite Country, America! Happy 1944 or, as the late, great Hannibal Lecter put it, Steak au Poivre! It's me, YOUR FAVORITE PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP!

Good news, Frog People. No one ever thought anything like this could ever be thought of, much less done except by me, your favorite President, so I'm doing it: ...Read more

Pete Hegseth won't have to wait much longer before notching his first officially recognized war atrocity as secretary of defense.

Investigators for the Pentagon's Central Command, in charge of all Mideast operations, have determined that U.S. forces were likely culpable in the lethal air strike on a girls' school in Minab, Iran, that killed ...Read more

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America's Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America's largest land mammal is, the pipsqueak of the prairie piqued my interest and stole my heart, and I'm not the only one. Andy Boyce arrived on the American Prairie in ...Read more

I counted 26 varieties of frozen pizza for sale in my local grocery store last Tuesday.

Can you tell I'm semiretired?

But first, let's explain my methodology.

I wasn't in the biggest grocery store in this area. I was in a midsize grocery store.

I didn't count pizza rolls, pizza bagels or anything similar. To be counted, a pizza didn't have...Read more

It is a Washington Post exclusive. They must have been tipped off. They clearly had a reporter there at 4 a.m. Saturday morning, when two employees of the Architect of the Capitol finally did the deed. First, they wheeled the plaque, which was stored in plywood, across the stone basement floor and then raised it with a jack table to fix it in ...Read more

Readers, does it seem we're going through one constitutional crisis after another?

Six Democratic senators told a scrum of journalists that President Donald Trump's newly launched war on Iran, with Israel, pushed them past a breaking point. They vowed to force public hearings and debate on the war, which is costing about a billion dollars a ...Read more

Bribery of a lawmaker used to be a straightforward retail transaction between the special interest briber and a specific bribee. But the Silicon Valley billionaires now invading rural America with hundreds of their exploitative AI data centers are out to buy state lawmakers in bulk.

Instead of slipping cash-filled envelopes to individual ...Read more

In the end, it wasn't the disturbingly Gestapo-like tactics of her U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, smashing cars, pulling innocents off the streets and executing two American citizens, that did Kristi Noem in. It wasn't the sneering contempt of court orders or the incessant lying that ended President Donald Trump's support for...Read more

In the early morning of Feb. 28, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. and Israel had started bombing Iran. He said that "the lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war." What he failed to mention was that he doesn't actually have the power to declare war; only Congress does. ...Read more

I'm the last person to defend her. For starters, I'm a dog lover and shooting a puppy you "hate" because you couldn't train her to hunt pheasant is no way to win my respect. The fact that she told the story on herself in her autobiography, presumably to polish her image as a tough leader, told me everything I needed to know. It should have ...Read more

It's common sense, Republicans say. You have to show ID to buy a beer, board a plane, or land a job as a snow shoveler. Why not require proof of identity from those who seek to exercise our most sacred civic right, casting a vote?

According to the polls, the GOP has won the argument. Most Americans favor a voter ID law.

What Republicans are ...Read more