Just when you thought it was safe to go back on TikTok, viral Gavin Newsom memes are taking over social media.

There’s Newsom Photoshopped into a classic black-and-white Calvin Klein ad (faux ripped abs and all). Newsom on the cover of a pretend romance novel (Fabio “bodice ripper” vibes abound). Newsom in a T-shirt declaring, “This is ...Read more

The California Supreme Court just gave state officials a golden opportunity to revitalize the rooftop solar industry, helping millions of homes and businesses lower their electric bills and fight the climate crisis.

Unfortunately, there’s little chance Gov. Gavin Newsom will do it.

When the California Public Utilities Commission voted in ...Read more

On Aug. 7, the Israeli war cabinet made a controversial decision to continue Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ground attacks against Hamas in Gaza, despite intermittent ceasefire efforts and the ongoing danger to the remaining hostages.

The decision has been condemned by many nations, including some — like France, the UK, Canada and Australia �...Read more

The emerging political battle over data centers has a feature unfamiliar to present-day policymaking: The opponents are not divided along partisan lines. Instead, the conflict is between local communities and Big Tech developers, with elected officials caught in the middle.

Politicians — from both parties — who have greenlit these projects ...Read more

The “Sell America’” trade seems to have run its course four months after the start of an alarming and correlated selloff in U.S. stocks, bonds and the dollar. Equities have climbed back to all-time highs, and the bond and currency markets have stabilized. The signal from foreign investors is that they can’t exactly escape the world’s ...Read more

So much has happened in recent days, it’s easy to overlook how little has happened. To wit: Nothing material. Not when it comes to matters of war and peace in Ukraine, where Russian leader Vladimir Putin continues to bomb civilians, to detain children (for which he is wanted by the International Criminal Court) and more generally to terrorize ...Read more

Air travel is remarkably safe, based on several years of performance data. Yet near-misses, including the recent close call between a Delta airplane and an Aero Mexico regional jet in Mexico City, give people pause to question whether current air travel risks are higher than historical trends suggest.

In light of such concerns, and given the ...Read more

Rodney King’s famous line “Can we all get along?” feels more relevant than ever today, underscoring our highly regrettable departure from civility toward a more belligerent and uneasy political reality.

But every now and then, we see small but significant signs that there’s movement toward reviving civil discourse. One of those moments...Read more

Like most Americans, including White House reporters apparently, I've tuned out Donald Trump's incessant Big Lie that he won the 2020 presidential election — "by a lot." That means his nonsense about rigged voting and Democrats' cheating goes mostly unchallenged, and he continues to undermine faith in U.S. elections. After all, it's not like ...Read more

In simple terms, pediatricians save children, while Bobby Kennedy kills children. And so the dangerous quack Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is now attacking the American Academy of Pediatrics, which dared to issue guidance recommending that children under age 2 be given the COVID-19 vaccine, in contrast to the fatally ...Read more

When companies started to push employees back to the office, many of us warned that mothers would be pushed out of the job market.

That prediction is becoming reality: The percentage of women in the workforce aged 25 to 44 with children under five plummeted nearly three percentage points between January and June before slightly rebounding in ...Read more

Some six months after the Trump administration announced its first tariffs on goods from China, Canada and Mexico, it’s starting to feel that policy may be starting to stabilize now that higher rates for most of the rest of America’s trading partners went into effect Aug. 7.

Although it’s still too early to confidently predict what the ...Read more

There was a time when same-sex couples walking in downtown Orlando, Delray Beach, Mount Dora or even Key West would be afraid to hold hands. There was a time when many members of the LGBTQ+ community were careful to evade the spotlight, even among the people who knew them best. There was a time when loving someone of the wrong gender could ...Read more

Besides spurring nationwide protests over police brutality, the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis also prompted a larger reckoning that included universities and scientists who contended with the histories and modern realities of racism across their fields.

The scientific community seemed to finally be confronting something we Black ...Read more

By hosting an unprecedented short-notice summit with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders on Monday, President Donald Trump significantly raised the prospects for ending Russia’s three-and-a-half-year-long war against Ukraine.

The vibe at the opening was affable and positive. The participants genuinely looked ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to stop the Ukraine conflict remain fluid, the details murky. But the fact that the president has in the span of only a few days met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several European leaders in an attempt to end the hostilities is a credit to the White ...Read more

It’s not often that you have eight European leaders, including one whose country is at war, descend on Washington in as close to an unplanned snap visit as you can get. Let’s hope that the White House visit convinced the White House resident of the importance of the moment.

Monday afternoon, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ...Read more

Today we discuss flora, fauna and self-gratification.

You’ve been away.

Yes, I was living in a tent for two weeks, communing with the pine trees and black bears of the Sierra.

You heard about California’s likely special election?

I did.

It seems Gov. Gavin Newsom will have his way, with help from the Democratic-run Legislature, and ...Read more

The Washington President Donald Trump has created is a hall of carnival mirrors where up is down and you never know just how much reality — and what was once America’s basic morality — are being distorted.

While Trump was in the White House being repeatedly thanked by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for selling out the country’s...Read more

On an evening in late July, just blocks from the Washington, DC, rowhouse my wife and I share with our two boys, a shootout erupted between two groups of people. Injuries resulted; cars and homes were riddled with bullets and police determined more than 140 shots were fired.

With criminal activity like this still a daily fact of life in the ...Read more