Even though their farms account for only 12% of the world’s farmland, they grow a third of the world’s food, and nearly 70% of Africa’s. They are smallholder farmers, many of them women, and they are facing the most severe impacts of climate change, yet they produce enough to literally feed billions. At COP30, the realities of smallholder ...Read more

At a hearing before the Supreme Court last week, a majority of the justices thankfully expressed real skepticism over Donald Trump’s bizarre and clearly illegal effort to utilize an emergency economic powers provision that doesn’t even mention tariffs to institute random tariff rates on pretty much every country in the world, shaking the ...Read more

Even a federal shutdown can’t keep the national debt from continuing to spiral out of control.

The nation’s debt now tops $38 trillion. It’s an unfathomable amount of money, so consider this: Every citizen’s share of that debt is more than $110,000. If you look only at taxpayers, the amount is more than $328,000.

Another way to view ...Read more

Could Tuesday’s elections and Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on the legality of Donald Trump’s tariffs spell the beginning of the end for White House “truthiness”?

Late-night comic Stephen Colbert coined that term in 2005 to mean, in his words, “the belief in what you feel to be true rather than what’s supported by facts.�...Read more

This spring, I couldn’t find my passport. Not quite sure what to do, I reported it as lost on the State Department website.

When you lose a passport, you apply as if you’ve never had one. Here’s the thing: I came to the United States with my family in the mid-1990s, and without a passport, the only proof that I’m a citizen is my ...Read more

A week before California's special election, Gavin Newsom made news by doing something practically unheard of. He told donors to stop sending money to pass Proposition 50.

It was a man-bites-piranha moment — a politician turning away campaign cash?!? — and amounted to a victory lap by California's governor even as the balloting was still ...Read more

Proposition 50 has passed, and with it goes the warm spotlight of never-ending press coverage that aspiring presidential contender Gavin Newsom has enjoyed. What's an ambitious governor to do?

My vote? Take inspiration from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who not only pulled America through the Depression, but rebuilt trust in democracy ...Read more

There’s significant evidence that the Biden administration engaged in a scandal on par with Watergate. Democrats hope you don’t notice.

At the end of last month, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released almost 200 subpoenas from the FBI investigation “Arctic Frost.” Former special counsel Jack Smith and his team ...Read more

President Donald Trump is testing the limits of law. Federal judges issue orders restraining him — on deportations, the use of military force or retaliatory lawsuits against political enemies such as James Comey and the press such as The New York Times— and he simply defies them. Lower courts continue to push back, but the pattern of ...Read more

One thing you can say about the president is that he likes to change things.

He wanted the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America, signing an executive order making it the official name for the federal government. He also signed an executive order changing the highest peak in the nation back to Mount McKinley from Denali. He renamed the ...Read more

When our family visits my mother’s glass-walled room overlooking the backyard and woods, we watch our unofficially “adopted” family of deer hang out in the grass and under the trees. My grandfather, who grew up in the city, was mesmerized by them. My father, coffee in hand, spent countless hours deer-watching before he died at 78. Now, ...Read more

I have spent my career caring for patients with chronic pain, dementia and other conditions that drain not only quality of life but also the healthcare system’s resources. Too often, I’ve prescribed medications that are costly and dangerous and carry high risks of dependency and death.

There is another option many of my patients already use...Read more

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield. While many schoolchildren used to memorize Lincoln’s speech, few of us today can get beyond “Four score and seven years ago …”

Indeed, in 2024, the ...Read more

A headline about a new education policy flashes across a news-aggregation app. Within minutes, the comment section fills: one reader suggests the proposal has merit; a dozen others pounce. Words like idiot, sheep, and propaganda fly faster than the article loads. No one asks what the commenter meant. The thread scrolls on—another small fire in...Read more

Should health insurance cover marijuana? Should it cover vodka? Lucky Strikes? Bacon cheeseburgers?

Like all those substances, marijuana contains pleasure-giving, mind-altering chemicals that the brain desperately wants more and more and more of (especially at today’s ultra-high potencies).

It’s not medicine and never has been. Health ...Read more

There’s an old climate joke that goes, “You may not believe in climate change, but your insurance company does.” If you’re in the market for new environmental humor — and really, who isn’t? — you can now update this to say, “You may not believe in climate change, but the stock market does.”

For much of this year, the S&P ...Read more

Have you and your relatives fought over ancestral homes and inheritance? I am raising an uncomfortable question, I know.

China’s billionaire families have certainly had their share of very public and very ugly spats — including “Wahaha princess” Kelly Zong’s recent battle with her half-siblings for control over $2 billion of cash held...Read more

Have you taken the Bloomberg AI-dentity Quiz? I did, and it pegged me as a “cautious optimist.” That seemed about right — but my sense of optimism was tested recently.

No, I wasn’t reading “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.” Nor was I trying to determine whether a chatbot would lie, or get something wrong, or reveal its unethical ...Read more

On Tuesday, I voted for the first time. Not for a president, not in a midterm, but in the California special election to counter Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering efforts. What makes this dynamic particularly fascinating is that both parties are betting on the same demographic — Latino voters.

For years, pundits assumed Latinos were a lock ...Read more

The uproar over Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes has sparked yet another round of MAGA civil war talk.

Full disclosure: I previously worked for Carlson at the Daily Caller, so I’ve had a front-row seat for this ongoing battle for a long time now.

In case you missed the latest: Carlson ...Read more