Donald Trump’s first term as president was characterized by an unprecedented volume of false and misleading statements — exceeding 30,000, according to multiple news organizations.

As he advances through the first 100 days of his second term, his administration appears to be intensifying this pattern, amplifying a misinformation apparatus ...Read more

I’m not Jewish, but my wife is, and, thus, a recent Monday evening found us in the audience for a screening of “Blind Spot” at Southwestern University, our local, 1,500-student liberal arts institution in Georgetown, Texas.

Georgetown is home to more Jews than one might expect, and many showed up for the movie. “Blind Spot” documents ...Read more

The Trump administration’s tariff policies — and the market fallout — have overshadowed one of the president’s most prominent successes: The chaos at the border created by his doddering successor has ceased.

Homeland Security officials report that illegal crossings at the southern border have fallen to their lowest level in decades. The...Read more

Trapped in a living nightmare, a cat named Lilly suffered for months with an untreated, excruciatingly painful perforated cornea, until she finally died. She was just one of many. Hundreds of others perished or “lived” in urine-soaked outbuildings or outdoors amid vomit, trash, excrement, roaches and maggots. The most shocking part? This ...Read more

About a year ago I moved my family of four in with my aging parents, and joined my mom in taking care of my dad, who has advanced frontal lobe dementia.

I also joined 26 million other Americans who are sandwich generation caregivers — constantly juggling the needs of an 8-year-old, an 11-year-old, a career and my 76-year-old dad, who can ...Read more

Elon Musk knows “why the Democratic propaganda machine is so fired up to destroy me,” he said in an interview earlier this year with Joe Rogan that was pinned to the top of his X feed for several weeks.

“The main reason is that entitlements fraud — that includes, like, Social Security, disability, Medicaid — entitlements fraud for ...Read more

The Trump administration recently announced that undocumented immigrants aged 14 and older must register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution. The requirement relies on the long-dormant Alien Registration Act of 1940, which provided the framework for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

President Donald ...Read more

One small step for the AP was a giant leap for the free press.

Last week, a federal court ruled in favor of the Associated Press, ordering the Trump administration to restore the organization’s access to the White House press pool. But the decision was an even more significant victory for American media.

In February, the Trump administration...Read more

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT”

That personalized message went out from President Donald J. Trump’s Truth Social account at 9:37 a.m. on Wednesday morning.

For those of us who saw it on X or elsewhere, the missive did not at first seem anything out of the ordinary.

Presidents named other than Trump have talked up U.S. markets. ...Read more

Intelligence chiefs testified recently on Capitol Hill about the U.S. intelligence community’s newly published annual threat assessment. In a stark departure from previous reports, this year’s assessment began with an overview of the threats posed by criminal organizations, including drug cartels and transnational gangs, before moving on to ...Read more

Social Security is at the center of the fiscal emergency that threatens the U.S. Yet Washington is always reluctant to grapple with it honestly, partly because the issue is misunderstood.

Although the system’s looming “insolvency,” now penciled in for 2035, has long been agonized over, this threat disguises the real problem. It suggests ...Read more

For 178 years, the Smithsonian Institution and its 21 museums, 21 libraries, 14 education and resource centers, National Zoo, and other affiliates have been responsible for chronicling and displaying our nation’s existence to enlighten past, present and future generations.

The federally and privately funded organization has a responsibility ...Read more

Amid the turmoil at the country’s federal agencies, a disturbing pattern has emerged: research addressing differences in the health and well-being of LGBTQ Americans is being acutely targeted.

The Trump administration’s aim appears twofold: to deny the existence of disparities affecting nearly one in 10 Americans and to ensure there’s no ...Read more

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from the hive altogether, leaving the queen and her offspring abandoned, Mary Celeste-style.

The coming months are shaping up to be an epic year for such ...Read more

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- California currently has 592 people in our prisons who have been sentenced to death.

It's the largest population of prisoners awaiting execution of any state. An astounding 175 of those inmates were sentenced from Los Angeles County courts, giving L.A. the dubious distinction of holding more men (and three women) on death row ...Read more

Donald Trump wasted no time when he returned to the White House. Within hours, he signed over 200 executive orders, rapidly dismantling years of policy and consolidating control with the stroke of a pen.

But the frenzy of reversals was only the surface. Beneath it lies a deeper, more troubling transformation: presidential elections have become...Read more

Donald Trump’s ever-evolving trade policy veered in another direction on Wednesday when the president announced he was pausing certain tariffs on many countries — but not China — for 90 days. Financial markets, which have cratered since Trump imposed his duties on U.S. trading partners last week, bolted upward. The Dow jumped nearly 3,000 ...Read more

As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured and educated democracy of my great grandparents could succumb so tragically. I never got it; I had an American's complacency that made Germans' complicity incomprehensible. Decades later, I do understand. Because it is ...Read more

That is, if you appreciate the second in command standing up for his oath to the Constitution instead of a man, and if you long for the days when America respected our European allies and was a proud member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

You can certainly disagree with Pence’s ideology, but all Americans should be able to ...Read more