Modern demagogues do not operate by inventing complete fantasies: They operate by weaponizing core, evident truths. Their most potent narratives begin with real wounds -- neglect, inequality, corruption, contempt, cultural anxiety -- and then twist those wounds into myths that serve only to concentrate power and disable collective action. These ...Read more

The academic money pit that has become New College of Florida received kid-glove treatment in The New York Times, but it’s because nobody checked the math. There’s a cost to swapping out curriculum that produced Fulbright scholars for beach volleyball scholarships, and The Times missed it.

It’s important to set the record straight on New ...Read more

Before Beyoncé married Jay-Z and began growing her family, she sang about dating a trifling, good-for-nothing type of brother who didn't know what being a man was about. He couldn't pay her bills. Not her telephone bill. Not even her automo'bill. This was back in 1999, while she was a member of Destiny's Child. Maybe the lyrics to the hit "...Read more

So much for Donald the Dove.

President Donald Trump mounted an illegal invasion of Venezuela, kidnapping president Nicolás Maduro and his wife and spiriting them out of the country.

The breathtaking use of military force against a sovereign state has no legal justification. It opens the door for anarchy in Venezuela and threatens to make the ...Read more

Pics or it didn’t happen, as they say, meaning if you don’t capture a moment in photos or video and then share it online, what’s the point?

We’ve written extensively on the growing societal obsession with phones and social media, specifically in regard to young people, pointing to both the short- and long-term harms this problem causes....Read more

President Donald Trump wasn’t joking when he welcomed guests to the live “Trump-Kennedy Center Honors” on Dec. 7, a comment that was cut in the televised version Dec. 23. Shortly after the original event, the president’s hand-picked board voted to rename the center. Guess who got top billing?

Signage was erected on the facade the day ...Read more

President Donald Trump had planned for months to invade Venezuela and seize its real prize, the nation’s vast oil reserves. Capturing President Nicolás Maduro was more pretext than purpose.

This was an act of naked and indefensible aggression. There’s no other way to describe it. It was, as U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said,“a...Read more

What happens now? Will democracy really prevail in Venezuela?

In Doral on Saturday, decades of pent-up fear and frustration spilled onto the streets. The news that the United States had “captured” — the word used by President Donald Trump — Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife during the night after a months-long pressure ...Read more

California has tried all manner of design in choosing its governor.

Democrat Gray Davis, to name a recent example, had an extensive background in government and politics and a bland demeanor that suggested his first name was also a fitting adjective.

Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, by contrast, was a novice candidate who ran for governor on ...Read more

In September, when the U.S. military began blowing up boats the administration said was carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea with no investigation or convictions, public discomfort was immediate, and criticism sharp. Many military and political leaders alleged a war crime after an especially disturbing, deadly attack on survivors of a first ...Read more

No sooner had the new year dawned than President Donald Trump introduced a new level of stress to the world, grabbing the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval, hauling Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, off to a New York jail cell and installing Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the de facto viceroy of Venezuela....Read more

We say goodbye to what was a tough year for most of us — tariffs, property taxes, high costs for basic goods, loss of loved ones and an unpredictable business environment. Some small businesses did not make it. We welcome the new year with anticipation and hope knowing that this year will be better than the last. As a sharecropper from ...Read more

As we head into 2026 and Democrats try to figure out how to regain power, their New Year’s resolution should be simple: Manage egos better.

In recent years, they seem to have forgotten the time-tested necessity of placating people. In other words, doing the same basic drudgery the rest of us rely on to get through this chaotic world.

This ...Read more

On Dec. 22 at Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump — flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Navy Secretary John Phelan — announced a plan to build battleships that would be "the largest we've ever built."

He said that starting with his first term, he had been asking, "Why aren't we doing battleships ...Read more

As space rapidly becomes an essential battlefield, Europe risks being left behind. Its current approach to the new space race — regulate first, compete later — is unlikely to help.

Ukraine’s dependence on SpaceX’s Starlink for military communications has exposed a strategic vulnerability that the European Union is now struggling to ...Read more

“The West” is a club on life support, skewered on the lance of Donald Trump’s Hobbesian view of the world as a series of protection rackets carved up by countries strong enough to command a seat at the table. With America’s traditional allies now part of the buffet, this seismic development begs a question: Is the West worth saving, and ...Read more