Jeffrey Epstein has become one of the few scandals that unites Americans in cynicism.

The case is about far more than sex crimes. It has crystallized a suspicion many Americans across party lines already carried — there is one set of rules for the powerful and another for everyone else.

With each new release of documents, flight logs and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Frank Clem, a pickleball pal of mine, recently put out the word that he was collecting whistles to deliver to the front lines of anti-ICE demonstrations in downtown Los Angeles, Highland Park, Pasadena and other locations.

I was out of the country at the time, but shortly after I returned, I thought about Clem when Minneapolis ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis likes to talk about how “Florida was DOGE before DOGE was cool.” He spends a lot of time pointing fingers at government entities across the state that he accuses of abusing taxpayer money.

But DeSantis should write the playbook on how to spend lavishly on his political priorities — the same ideology-driven spending he ...Read more

Fusion has been in the news a lot recently given its promise as an abundant and clean source of energy that could help power the AI revolution.

Late last year, the Trump administration overhauled the Department of Energy by phasing out several clean‑energy offices while shifting the focus to fusion (along with AI, quantum and critical ...Read more

The search continues for a framework to make sense of, or at least label, the baffling state of world affairs since Donald Trump took his second oath of office as president of the United States. And now we have a new contender: Neo-royalism. At first — and even second — glance, I’d say it fits.

First, a recap of some of the “isms” ...Read more

January 20 marked the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second inauguration. Like previous presidents, the Trump White House will be measured by how well the president has fulfilled his campaign promises. We’ve already seen headlines that so far the president has failed to cut our grocery bills, one of candidate Trump’s ...Read more

If you wake each morning already angry at news of some latest outrage from President Donald Trump or some unhinged, malevolent message he posted online overnight, and if you then go to bed already burdened by nightmares from the headlines of the day, there's good news: You're not alone.

Being social animals, humans find comfort in company. ...Read more

The Donald Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has engaged allies in Congress. Yet the real threat to the Fed isn’t Trump’s investigation — it’s the erosion of public support. The Fed’s only real strategy to successfully pushing back against attacks on its independence is to engage the...Read more

The reported discovery of an illegal laboratory in Las Vegas should not trigger panic, but it should trigger seriousness. It is not evidence of an active biological war underway in the United States. It is something more subtle and more troubling: a reminder of how exposed modern societies have become in an age where powerful biological tools ...Read more

As an institution that has been watching Ed Martin’s bull plow through various political china shops for two decades now, this page doesn’t mourn his remarkable fall from grace with the Trump administration, as revealed Monday.

Several national publications report that Martin — a former Missouri right-wing gadfly who left a trail of ...Read more

The economy is far too tight for many Americans—more about how to fix that in a minute—but first some good news: Household wealth is on the rise.

And not by a small amount. New data from the Federal Reserve says household wealth grew by $14 trillion from the first quarter of last year through the third quarter. Even after adjusting for ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s detractors have portrayed him as a fascist, dictatorial, freedom-hating fiend. The aggressive ICE arrests and protests in Minneapolis, including two shooting deaths of civilians, only added fuel to the narrative that America was devolving into a police state and Armageddon was on its way.

Then Trump pivoted.

Whether ...Read more

We have a question for officials at the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, though we’re not sure they will answer it:

What are they really trying to accomplish with the new English-only rule that goes into effect Friday at driver’s license offices across the state?

Because nothing about this new rule will change the ...Read more

Tulsi Gabbard's political journey has been anything but straightforward.

As a teenager, she worked for her father, a prominent anti-gay activist, and his political organization, which opposed same-sex marriage. In 2002, she was elected to Hawaii's House of Representatives, becoming — at age 21 — the youngest person to serve in the ...Read more

The next election is not an existential event for the United States. Neither is the one after that — or the one after that. But that won’t stop American politicians from claiming otherwise, nor anxiety-ridden voters from believing them.

For at least the last decade, our politics has been gripped by a malady I call “The-End-Is-Near-ism.”...Read more

It has been 10 months since President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” import tariff announcement in April. Ultimately, that announcement led to U.S. import tariffs rising to an average of 17 percent, their highest level in 100 years.

It is still too early to draw conclusions as to the overall damage those tariffs might inflict on the ...Read more

The report the Florida DOGE has recently released detailing spending in the state’s largest cities and counties reads, at times, like a reasonable exercise in fiscal oversight. But too much of it sounds like a list of ideological grievances.

The report, released last week, raises some valid questions: Why did general fund spending in many ...Read more

A fast-moving measles outbreak in South Carolina reached a grim milestone last week: It is now the biggest outbreak in the U.S. in a quarter century.

It’s the latest public health record to be broken as vaccine hesitancy and increasingly permissive state laws — both now intensified by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr...Read more

Cracks are opening in the foundation of President Donald Trump’s coalition: working-class White voters. That could be crucial in November’s midterm elections. For Democrats, improving their performance among those voters is the key to expanding their map of opportunities in both the House and Senate.

Since emerging as the GOP’s leader in ...Read more

The economy is far too tight for many Americans—more about how to fix that in a minute—but first some good news: Household wealth is on the rise.

And not by a small amount. New data from the Federal Reserve says household wealth grew by $14 trillion from the first quarter of last year through the third quarter. Even after adjusting for ...Read more