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Departing Alaska after a mega-hyped meeting with Vladimir Putin that gave the Russian dictator plenty to smile about, President Donald Trump trotted out the customary hogwash. It was, he proclaimed, "a great and very successful day in Alaska." For some lucky salmon fishermen, perhaps, but not for Ukrainians, who have been victims of Russia's ...Read more

Why do the world's poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrants, the largest influx coming from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and India. How can these overwhelmingly poor new arrivals stay if no one can afford to live there?

Answer: They crowd into ...Read more

Deep in the Florida Everglades, a new immigration detention facility has appeared almost overnight. It's the latest example of the Trump administration's extreme approach to immigration enforcement, and it's drawing significant, well-deserved outrage.

In just eight days, a former airstrip was converted into a large-scale immigration detention...Read more

Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Commandos on land vehicles and paragliders killed 1,195 Israelis, injured about 5,400 and seized about 250 hostages. A few hours later, Israel launched its genocide of the Gazan people. The Israel Defense Forces have since killed at least 60,000 Palestinians -- with some estimates as high as 200,000 -- ...Read more

When I was a kid, my family often drove from northern Kentucky to Clearwater, Florida, where my grandmother had retired. We loaded down our van with camping gear and snorkels. Along the way, we camped in the Smokey Mountains, canoed with alligators in the Okefenokee Swamp and snorkeled with the manatee in Crystal River. Nature was my family's ...Read more

Scientists say blue whales are singing less.

It's not really singing. It's more like squeaking, but they used to do it all the time, and now they only do it sometimes. The singing helps them find mates, and it's how they talk to each other.

The same scientists say the whales might be singing less because climate change is making it harder ...Read more

It's with some discomfort that I consider the possibility that Trump's radical immigration agenda will lead to better immigration policies. The discomfort comes from the cruelty involved: the roughing up of good people who've been quietly working, the celebrations of brutal incarceration, the racially tinged rhetoric.

Hope comes in the form ...Read more

The latest from the streets of LA -- ICE Seeks Supreme Court Approval for Racial Profiling. That's what they're doing. As I wrote in my last column, in June, the federal district court found, discriminatory "roving patrols" of ICE agents terrorized Los Angeles and its residents, targeting not those who had committed crimes (remember those ...Read more

"If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice."

Those were the words circulated on X and voiced on-air by Al Jazeera, of Anas al-Sharif, a 28-year-old journalist in Gaza, after he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Aug. 10. Anticipating his death, he wrote his statement last April.

"I have ...Read more

They have declared war on us.

Washington, D.C., is now a police state. Sending in the National Guard, President Donald Trump seized control of nation's capital, even the police force. Crime is way down, giving away the lie of his "emergency." Washington's capable mayor, Muriel Bowser, is a Black woman, totally trampled on with brazen ...Read more

Frenetic crowds are storming the White House like a Black Friday mob at Walmart!

Only these are not shoppers scrambling for family needs -- these are CEOs, lobbyists and billionaires out to "get theirs" in the huge Trump-a-Thon sell-off of Presidential favors. Common folks need not apply, since MAGA, Inc. (Trump's political fundraising sack) ...Read more

On CNN last week, analyst Scott Jennings asked Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, like many a critic of Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to fully occupy the Gaza Strip, if Rogin had an alternative to militarily removing Hamas from power in Gaza. Rogin's recommendation: "You can steer (Hamas) toward better governance, but that will require working ...Read more

In 2008, Madeline "Kara" Neumann, age 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no longer talk while suffering terrible stomach pains. Yet her adults still wouldn't take her to a doctor. A Wisconsin jury convicted the mother of ...Read more

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to end the constitutionally guaranteed right to birthright citizenship. The American Civil Liberties Union and our partners swiftly sued to block that cruel and lawless action, as did other groups of plaintiffs around the country.

The Trump administration ...Read more

In June, the court found, discriminatory "roving patrols" of ICE agents terrorized Los Angeles and its residents, targeting not those who had committed crimes (remember those promises), but anyone who looked Hispanic or spoke Spanish or was hanging out in Hispanic neighborhoods where men find jobs, at car washes and at Home Depot parking lots....Read more

Political opinions are like posteriors; with a few exceptions, everyone has one. And those opinions, like what comes out of rear ends, frequently look and smell terrible, the more so after the passage of time.

Political opinions are the most dangerous kind of opinions, more so than almost any other kind of subjective thought. Political opinions...Read more