The parade of Trump terribles is a long one, starting in Washington and stretching clear across this beleaguered nation.

A bumbling Defense secretary who lacks the competence to organize a two-car military procession.

A screw-loose Health secretary who seems not to care if measles and other plagues descend on America.

A director of national ...Read more

The president’s decision to take over the District of Columbia police, along with expanding immigration and policing enforcement in blue cities such as Chicago, undermines a constitutional framework designed to check the executive branch.

While not technically illegal, President Donald Trump’s actions are anti-democratic and speak to the ...Read more

Trump says his deployment of federal law enforcement is about restoring order in Washington, D.C. But the real message isn’t about crime—it’s about power.

By federalizing the District’s police, activating the National Guard, and bulldozing homeless encampments with just a day’s notice, Trump is flexing a new kind of presidential ...Read more

As an older millennial, my high school and college summers were defined largely by the jobs I held. Not many of today’s teens can say the same.

Once a rite of passage, teen jobs are now endangered: just 35% of 16- to 19-year-olds worked last summer, down from 54% in 2000.

Big deal? Yeah, it is. This decline in youth employment matters more ...Read more

Unless the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress act quickly, millions of working Americans could lose access to their health insurance at the end of this year. Among the most affected will be small businesses and middle-income earners — many of whom, ironically, live in congressional districts that vote Republican.

An estimated 4....Read more

We’ve read quite a bit about President Donald Trump’s “hot mic” comment, during a meeting with European leaders about the Russian war against Ukraine, that Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal for me, as crazy as it sounds.”

Pundits debated whether this was an embarrassment for Trump; they wondered why he would say such an important...Read more

It’s difficult to look at the Middle East today and be optimistic. Every U.S. president since the turn of the century has entered office promising to strike peace agreements in this region, only to leave office without succeeding. The 2020 Abraham Accords, facilitated by President Donald Trump during his first term, was less a peace agreement ...Read more

Read enough headlines about artificial intelligence and you can be excused for thinking that we’re headed for a dystopian future ruled by AI-powered robot overlords. Mass unemployment, including people being forced to train their robot replacements to get that last paycheck, seems to be a common theme in the latest dire forecasts.

Don’t ...Read more

School is back in session and Labor Day approaches, as headlines announce what we nervous cases see as the apocalypse. Summer is too long for me, emotionally. The bright promise of early summer fades and darkens by mid-August.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, the desolate people of the Hebrew Bible cried out to the prophet Jeremiah, “The ...Read more

What will be the effect of artificial intelligence on labor in the United States? The current government’s agenda for labor will undoubtedly have an influence here.

Last year, President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk lavishly for telling his workers that he would fire them if they went on strike. “You’re the greatest,” he said. This is ...Read more

On Aug. 28, 1963, my father stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and summoned a nation to listen — not merely to a speech, but to a vision. He dreamed out loud, daring America to imagine itself better: a country where dignity wasn’t determined by skin color, where opportunity wasn’t bound by birth and where the promises of democracy ...Read more

ATLANTA — “What happens when your whole life is upended?”

This, I believe, is a rhetorical question that Jovaughn Recasner has posed to me when we talked on the phone days before the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Recasner, a New Orleans native, evacuated to Atlanta during the historic storm and has remained here ever since.

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On Aug. 13, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration corralled 26 narcotraffickers onto planes destined for the United States, where they will be prosecuted for a litany of drug and violent offenses. One was wanted in the killing of a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy nearly two decades ago. This wasn’t the first prisoner ...Read more

It's probably safe to say that almost no one following the news believes that Donald Trump has a solid, defensible reason to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook, as he purported to do Monday, notwithstanding his assertion that she is guilty of "potentially criminal conduct."

It's not only that the charge she falsified information on ...Read more

Like the White Queen in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," I am capable of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

But my credulity is strained past the breaking point by the charges of federal mortgage fraud laid against three leading adversaries of President Donald Trump—Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, New York ...Read more

And so the purge continues. Some of us used to think, or hope, that President Donald Trump’s campaign of “retribution” would prove brutal but short, leaving American statecraft bruised but functional. The news flow suggests a different direction. As Senator Mark Warner puts it, “when expertise is cast aside and intelligence is distorted ...Read more

When it comes to lawsuits against the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating government grants and contracts, Justice Amy Coney Barrett has become the deciding voice at the Supreme Court.

In an important decision concerning the National Institutes of Health’s termination of grants related to gender, DEI and COVID, Barrett held that ...Read more

In nearly every part of modern life, technology works for us. You can check in for a flight with your phone, track your heart rate in real time or get personalized grocery suggestions based on your habits.

But when it comes to managing your health? You’re often stuck printing records, repeating your medical history at every new appointment ...Read more

Remember when loyalty oaths were used to ferret out and punish people suspected of being Communists? They were a potent and terrifying tool, designed to produce conformity and compliance at the height of the late 1940s, early 1950s Red Scare.

Today, they are back, but in more subtle, if no less coercive, forms. The Trump administration is using...Read more

From MAGA Republicans to progressive Democrats to those of us in the middle, Americans want real change – and they’re tired of politics as usual.

They’re craving authenticity, real reform, and an end to the status quo. More and more, voters seem to be embracing disruption over the empty promises of establishment politicians, who too ...Read more