If President Donald Trump thinks piling pressure on the Federal Reserve will further his goal of lowering interest rates and stimulating economic growth, he should think again. On the contrary, it’s likely to have the opposite effect.

It’s hard to see the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, purportedly ...Read more

I have watched far too many videos of the killing that took place Wednesday in Minneapolis, when an ICE agent shot an unarmed woman in the head as she tried to drive away from him. Nothing I have seen comports with what Trump administration officials said in the aftermath. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem trashed the dead woman as a ...Read more

Ever since Donald J. Trump descended from a gold escalator at his eponymous Manhattan tower in 2015, he has sworn that a scorched-earth campaign against "illegal immigrants" would make life safer for Americans and that citizens had nothing to worry about.

Well.

In 2025, Trump's campaign vow to target "the worst of the worst" was set aside in ...Read more

California helped make them among the richest people in the world. Now they’re fleeing because California wants a little something back.

The proposed California Billionaire Tax Act has plutocrats saying they are considering deserting the Golden State for fear they’ll have to pay a one-time, 5% tax, on top of the other taxes they barely pay ...Read more

HOUMA, La. — For nearly 50 years, James Blanchard has made his living in the Gulf of Mexico, pulling shrimp from the sea.

It's all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana. Blanchard loved the adventure ...Read more

Back in the 1980s when the Rev. Jesse Jackson shook up the political establishment with two inspiring campaigns for president, the mantra that lifted him and his supporters was “Run, Jesse, Run.”

It’s time to renew that rallying cry, although some political observers have a different Jesse in mind.

Jesse Ventura.

That’s right. The ...Read more

Even government programs can get strangled by red tape.

Think back to 2021. That’s when President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It directed more than $1 trillion toward transportation and infrastructure projects. That included more than $42 billion to expand broadband internet.

“Access to high-speed internet ...Read more

Across the U.S. and globally, employers—including corporations, health care systems, universities, and nonprofits—are increasing investment in worker well-being. The global corporate wellness market reached $53.5 billion in sales in 2024, with North America leading adoption. Corporate wellness programs now use AI to monitor stress, track ...Read more

People who want to keep secrets for one reason or another often detest leaks to the media. Naturally, we’re hardwired to oppose that petulant and shortsighted approach to American life, but within such realms as law or business, there can be valid arguments for enforcing secrecy through confidentiality agreements and investigations.

Sometimes...Read more

While Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence turned the smoldering embers of rebellion into the glorious fireworks of independence and revolution, it was a short pamphlet published six months earlier, in January 1776, that ignited the colonies’ revolutionary zeal and crowded out any notion of rapprochement with Britain.

Thomas Paine...Read more

I have an identical twin sister. Although our faces can unlock each other’s iPhones, even the two of us are not exactly the same. If identical twins can differ, wouldn’t most people be different too? Why is diversity considered a bad word?

Like me, my twin sister is in computing, yet we are unique in many ways. She works in industry, while ...Read more

Uncle Sam wants you. And now he wants your voting data, too.

The law — and long-standing policy — say he shouldn’t get it.

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed lawsuits in 23 states and the District of Columbia seeking access to detailed voter information for the purpose of building a national database. The department’s demand sets...Read more

Even before using a U.S. Navy armada to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump had big ideas to remake the service in his image. At a glitzy Mar-a-Lago rollout last month, he announced a new “Trump class” of battleships, ostensibly to lead a 21st-century “Golden Fleet.” Is this bold — and very expensive — ...Read more

The American attack on Venezuela to snatch-and-grab its dictator was many things: militarily masterful, legally cynical, strategically and morally warped, and entirely uncertain in its ultimate outcome for Venezuela, the Western Hemisphere and the world. It also was and is devastatingly revealing about the foreign-policy apparatus of this White ...Read more

Those battling chronic illness know what a long, difficult battle it is to get well again, understanding all too well that old sentiment, You don’t realize how important your health is until you lose it.

Today, too many Americans live sick. They’re fighting rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, diabetes. Many are battling cancer...Read more

That escalated quickly. We’re barely into 2026, and events are already unfolding that could meaningfully reshape the political landscape.

The death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother and U.S. citizen who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, has the potential to shake the ...Read more

The GOP’s best chance of defending its narrow, five-seat majority in the House of Representatives in 2026 — and beyond — could come from an upcoming Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act.

From any angle, Republicans face difficult odds in November. No party has successfully maintained unified control of the White House, the ...Read more

In a single stroke, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. achieved a long-standing goal of his anti-vaccine supporters — and put millions of American children needlessly at risk.

On Jan. 5, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is narrowing the childhood vaccine schedule — considered the baseline of care for all children �...Read more

The White House announced last January that waging war on the “foreign aid industry and bureaucracy” would be among its first orders of business. Unfortunately, many other rich-country governments are following its lead. If current and planned cuts to foreign aid stand, the cost could be millions — repeat, millions — of lives lost.

No ...Read more

The anger among conservatives about President Donald Trump’s comments on the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funds from being used for abortion, is not insider Beltway baseball. It’s not a splinter in the MAGA coalition, generously salted by mainstream media outlets. It’s a historic departure on one of the clearest moral issues in ...Read more