The climate emergency has produced several on-the-nose metaphorical moments lately, such as an art museum founded by oil baron J. Paul Getty being threatened by the Palisades fire in Los Angeles in January or a superyacht’s fireworks sparking a wildfire in Greece last year. But nothing tops how more than $1 trillion in U.S. wages has gone up ...Read more

When Kamala Harris left the White House, she was trailed by three big questions.

She's now answered two of them.

First off, the former vice president will not be running for California governor in 2026. After months of will-or-won't-she speculation, the Democrat took a pass on a race that was Harris' to lose because, plainly, her heart just ...Read more

Writing in 1788, Alexander Hamilton famously described the judiciary as “the least dangerous branch” of the federal government. He thought that it would never be in a position to do serious damage to American life because it had neither “the sword nor the purse…but merely judgment.”

President Donald Trump and his allies seem to ...Read more

The all-purpose adage offering optimism — and sometimes pessimism — to those confronting a crisis head-on is: "This too shall pass."

One gets the impression that this is a crutch favored by some major institutions that have capitulated to Donald Trump's demands — such as universities that have committed to fines and payouts stretching out...Read more

I can't say I was surprised, but it didn't take long for readers to jump at the bait last week when I wrote that for the first time, I had tested positive for COVID-19 despite having been regularly vaccinated throughout the pandemic.

"Vaccines are poison," wrote one reader, who said I'd fallen for a hoax. "Wake up!"

Actually, as I said last ...Read more

The killing of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday on a college campus in Utah is undoubtedly an act of political violence that should have no place in America.

The irony is that if the person who assassinated Kirk did so because of opposition to Kirk’s political ideology, the shooting only serves to make Kirk a martyr, to amplify his message and to ...Read more

Over the next few days, we are going to hear politicians, commentators and others remind us that political violence is never OK, and never the answer.

That is true.

There is no room in a healthy democracy, or a moral society, for killings based on vengeance or beliefs — political, religious, whatever.

But the sad reality is that our ...Read more

“Reindustrialize.” It’s the latest rallying cry gaining traction, with both the left and right calling for policy reforms to modernize American industry and finally bring back manufacturing jobs to the American heartland. But President Trump has been sounding this alarm for years, long before it became politically fashionable.

In line ...Read more

For decades, the United States has been the world leader in innovation. Generations of business, political and educational leaders evolved a balanced system of public-private partnerships, deep science funding and support for small and emerging businesses. All Americans had a hand in creating a culture that celebrates a unique level of risk-...Read more

Everyone can agree that Jeffrey Epstein was a vile individual. Beyond that is the domain of speculation, conspiracy and bare-knuckle political brawling.

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported on details of a 2003 birthday book that Epstein’s then-friends gave him. It contains a letter with a signature that resembles President Donald ...Read more

My cat, Thorwald, was my constant companion for 11 years. We bonded instantly at the shelter where I adopted him, and from that moment on, he was always there: greeting me at the door, curling up in my lap, sending me into fits of laughter with his hilariously expressive meows and sleeping beside me each night. He was a steady presence through ...Read more

When Kamala Harris was contemplating a run for California governor, one of her supposed considerations was the security detail that attends the state's chief executive.

The services of a life-preserving, ego-boosting retinue of intimidating protectors — picture dark glasses, earpiece, stern visage — were cited by more than one Harris ...Read more

A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was brutally killed last month on a city train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Her name was Iryna Zarutska, and she came to the U.S. to escape the war in her home country, hoping to start a new life — and a better one. Instead, her family buried her.

Video of the attack was made public last Friday and went ...Read more

Vladimir Putin has been on a roll the past few weeks. First President Donald Trump invited him to Anchorage. Then he got a three-way hug with China’s President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a summit in China. And an invitation to a grand military parade in Beijing.

Since the 2014 annexation of Crimea, Putin had been ...Read more

It’s hard to pin down exactly where President Donald Trump falls on the subject of vaccinations. He launched Operation Warp Speed to develop the coronavirus vaccines early in the pandemic and confirmed he received the shots, but he’s also nominated — and continues to stand by — an avowed anti-vaxxer to lead the nation’s public-health ...Read more

On Sept. 2, in a comment from the White House aimed at justifying sending federal troops into Baltimore, President Donald Trump said this about his targets:

"These are hard-core criminals... They're not going to be good. In 10 years, in 20 years, in two years, they're going to be criminals. They were born to be criminals. Frankly, they were ...Read more

Liberals are different from you and me. They have more gobbledygook.

Their pretentious vocabulary is what's keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared by a left-leaning think tank and aimed at helping Democrats regain their common touch.

Titled, "Was it Something I Said?" the memo comes from ...Read more