Kamala Harris does not want to be governor of California, which has a whole lot of contenders (and some voters) doing a happy dance this week.

But with her announcement Wednesday that she is bowing out of a race she never officially entered, Harris has ignited a flurry of speculation that she's warming up for another run at the White House in ...Read more

Skeletal babies. Starving families shot down while waiting in line for food. Images and video of the famine in Gaza are now everywhere, and they’ve done in a few weeks what 21 months of war could not: squeeze empathy for Palestinians out of MAGA.

This week, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia became the first House Republican to publicly use ...Read more

Scott Turner was a Texas House Representative, now serving in the Trump Administration as the Secretary of U.S. Housing & Urban Development (HUD). In the Texas House, he talked about “being the best we can,” and espoused high standards for himself and his colleagues; however, in his current position, he has voiced no complaints or objections...Read more

Trivia quiz: What do Japan’s Fermentation Research Institute, Secretary of Agriculture Earl “Rusty” Butz and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan have in common?

Answer: Each, in their way, helped foster America’s widespread adoption of high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has vowed to ban. ...Read more

Thirty years ago, a pig named "Babe" trotted into my life—and my heart. He helped me see pigs not as ingredients, but as individuals. They love. They grieve. They dream. Their hearts beat with the same quiet tenderness we feel in a dog’s gaze or a cat’s purr. They are someone, not something.

"Babe" inspired me to go vegan, which felt like...Read more

Each of us follows a unique destiny, even as we know we will each wind up dead one day. Some people afflicted with a life-ending disease keep it to themselves. They would rather soldier on as though everything were normal. Maybe they tell a trusted friend or two, but they don’t broadcast it. They prefer not to have to deal with the sometimes ...Read more

For generations, owning a home has been one of the most effective ways for American families to build wealth, stability and long-term opportunity. But for far too many families, especially those who are Black and Latine, this opportunity remains out of reach.

Sustainable homeownership means giving people the tools and support they need to make ...Read more

On a recent trip to Taiwan, I turned to ChatGPT to ask for recommendations for the best beef noodles in my area — with the very specific request that the shop had to accept credit cards, as I was running low on my stash of local currency.

The chatbot immediately recommended a place that was a short walk and featured some of the most delicious...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Everyone reaches a point in life when it's OK to sink into the easy chair, prop up their feet and take a deep breath.

Apparently, no one has told this to Billie Jean King.

Since the time she was a child in Long Beach, raised by a firefighter and homemaker, King has been filling history books.

She won more singles and doubles ...Read more

When President Donald Trump demanded that the Washington Commanders change their name back to the Redskins — a slur that the team dropped as a moniker in 2020 — it should have surprised no one.

Not only because he’s shown that he can’t resist a culture war skirmish, but because for decades, the nation’s most popular sport has been ...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell is no one’s victim. But that’s the disturbing narrative being peddled in advance of a possible fast track to a presidential pardon.

Convicted of sex trafficking, Maxwell was not a bystander in Jeffrey Epstein’s global web of child sex abuse. The British socialite was its architect. She used money and power to lure girls....Read more

Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist right-wing government can't win the "total victory" over Hamas that the Israeli prime minister repeatedly demands; even Israeli defense officials have said so. But he — or, more to the point, Israel — can lose.

With the starvation of Gaza, Netanyahu is hastening a break in the bipartisan U.S. support for...Read more

By closing one door, Kamala Harris has left another ajar.

Running for California governor in 2026, which she ruled out Wednesday, would almost certainly have precluded another run for the White House in 2028 — something Harris explicitly did not rule out.

There were significant hurdles to attempting both.

To have any chance of being ...Read more

The White House is trumpeting its new trade deal with the European Union, following a similar agreement with Japan, as a great victory. Both pacts impose tariffs of 15% on most exports to the U.S., along with other concessions — on the face of it, lifting the threat of open-ended trade war and reaffirming U.S. dominance. Financial markets ...Read more

In his first six months in office, President Donald Trump has launched a relentless campaign of fear and intimidation aimed at dismantling the network that provides health care to transgender adolescents.

It’s working. Hospitals — worried that their federal funding for Medicaid and Medicare may be jeopardized — are rapidly withdrawing ...Read more

When Republicans were looking for ways to reduce the cost of their One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), one of the first offsets they incorporated was a federal work requirement for Medicaid.

Proponents claimed this “common-sense” policy would grow the economy by increasing employment and cut wasteful spending on “lazy,” able-bodied people ...Read more

This time, the gun death came to New York.

The same ridiculous fiction is being sold to a gullible public that was trotted out after Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Parkland, Buffalo and all the others: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. What’s more pathetic than those who keep selling that myth is the ease with which so many Americans buy ...Read more

While volunteering this spring at a middle school in Washington, D.C., I watched a science teacher chat with her newest student, who had recently arrived from Paris. The teacher began explaining the guidelines of an upcoming assignment, employing hand gestures and a few well-intentioned Spanish words. The student, appreciative though a bit ...Read more

Intentionally misstating New York City’s sanctuary immigration policy as thwarting the prosecution of violent criminals, the Trump administration continued its war on local government by filing suit in federal court last week, one of a number of similar lawsuits across the country that conflate civil noncooperation with active criminal ...Read more