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It was the Fox News poll of voters that a reporter asked the president about, the one that showed 59% saying that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had gone too far. Hard to dismiss as fake news, but the president wasn't biting. He ignored the question, just sat resolutely at his resolute desk and stared ahead.

But he's not ignoring ...Read more

Getting rid of Gregory Bovino, who had been the face (intentionally so) of President Donald Trump's war on immigrants, is a first step, but it is hardly enough. "You know, Bovino is very good, but he's a pretty out-there kind of a guy," Trump said in a Fox News interview Tuesday. "And in some cases, that's good. Maybe it wasn't good here."

In...Read more

Jack Smith finally got his chance to defend his investigation publicly in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.

Smith is a dinosaur by this administration's standards. He is the polar opposite of Pam Bondi, which should be a frightening thought. He is a career prosecutor who doesn't play politics, and never has.

In his ...Read more

But Minneapolis is still on the table.

The news out of Davos on Wednesday morning was that President Donald Trump told world leaders that he does not plan to use force to take Greenland.

It's actually a relief to hear him say that, even in bellicose tones, which is a measure of the depth to which we've sunk. After all, for the last two weeks...Read more

President Donald Trump made the threat, where else, on Truth Social:

"If the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT, which...Read more

The headline shook me to the core. "Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim's Widow."

This is what the end of the rule of law looks like. The people who refuse to do the wrong thing leave, or are pushed out, and replaced by sycophants.

Joseph Thompson was number two in the Office and the former Acting U.S. Attorney ...Read more

When he entered the camps for the first time, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, confronting the horror, insisted that photographers create a full record of the atrocities, lest future generations deny that it had happened. Which hasn't fully stopped the deniers.

On Jan. 6, 2021, we all saw an insurrection directed at our democracy. It was on live...Read more

I thought I was reading something wrong. The same story had two "headlines" on the screen.

One announced that the flu season surged in the United States over the holidays and already rivals last winter's harsh epidemic.

The other -- the caption for the picture of a flu shot that ran with the story -- announced that the Trump administration ...Read more

On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced the death of the late President's 35-year-old granddaughter. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts." Just weeks before, she had published an article in The New Yorker about her battle with leukemia that followed the birth ...Read more

Every year, for as long as I can remember, I would resolve to lose weight. 125 pounds it said on my driver's license, even though it wasn't accurate at the time I wrote it down. It was my goal, every year, to get there by my birthday, which is in mid-December. And every year, I would fail, berate myself and then vow to lose the weight in the ...Read more

One of my most distinct memories of childhood is sitting in the back seat of my mother's car with my sister on Christmas Eve as my mother explained that there would be no Christmas at our house because we were Jewish. It's not your holiday, she told us. And it's not. It belongs to those who worship Jesus, which we do not.

It took me many ...Read more

According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, have reported a range from 1.2% to 2.7%.

Who should decide how to best raise these children -- what medical care will help ...Read more

At first, when I saw it on Facebook, I thought someone had fallen for some AI slop, was reposting "fake news." Even President Donald Trump could not be that tasteless.

He could be. He is. This is the full post:

"A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and...Read more

They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika -- and lest there be any doubt, accompanied the photo with a quote from Adolf Hitler calling for the killing of all Jews.

Happy Hanukkah. It starts on ...Read more

He did it again. Consider the pattern. On Dec. 8, President Donald Trump went after Rachel Scott, who happens to be a woman of color, for asking him whether the administration would release the controversial video of the strike on the Venezuelan boat.

Scott: "Are you committed to releasing the full video?"

Trump: (reportedly growing ...Read more

The news on Friday morning that a CDC panel is now recommending that newborns not be vaccinated for Hepatitis B is frightening. As The New York Times put it, "the divisiveness and dysfunction surrounding the decision raised questions about the reliability of that process -- and the future of the C.D.C." Not to mention questions about the ...Read more

The "fog of war" is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's latest explanation for what was going on with the second strike on the boat in the Caribbean. He told a Cabinet meeting, "I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. It exploded, there's fire, there's smoke. This is called the fog of war."

Not exactly, according to military ...Read more

It cuts to the core, through the hot air and the blue smoke and mirrors of our politics, to what really matters. Tatianna Schlossberg's essay in The New Yorker is the one thing you must read this holiday season to touch base with what is real -- including grief,but it also love and rage.

A thirty-four-year-old woman gives birth to her second ...Read more

This week, President Donald Trump called for the execution of six veterans who are members of Congress for posting a video telling members of the military that "they can refuse illegal orders."

On Truth Social, he posted: "It's called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT...Read more

It took three weeks for President Donald Trump to speak up. In the meantime, Tucker Carlson's chummy interview with white nationalist and outspoken anti-Semite Nick Fuentes was tearing Trump's MAGA crowd apart. And when he finally did speak up, it was to defend Tucker Carlson -- and Nick Fuentes.

"We've had some great interviews with Tucker ...Read more