Pols and pundits were mostly amused when President Donald Trump mused aloud back in his first term about making Greenland part of America. But now Trump has remade America into ICEland.

And it is no laughing matter. Team Trump has done what the boss ordered – which meant doing it rashly, inhumanely and certainly injudiciously.

Google’s ...Read more

California’s leaders will readily acknowledge their state needs more housing. But they haven’t succeeded in cutting down the thicket of regulations that limit construction.

In 2017, then-gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom promised to “lead the effort to develop the 3.5 million new housing units we need by 2025, because our solutions ...Read more

At about the time President Donald Trump issued his Aug. 25 Executive Order entitled “Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag,” I happened to be reading “A Gentleman in Moscow,” Amor Towles’ droll novel about life under the Bolsheviks in the 1920s through the 1950s.

A secondary character, Mishka, is a passionate, idealistic writer ...Read more

I have no problem with renaming the Department of Defense into the Department of War, as Donald Trump is trying to do. (It’s technically not up to the president but to Congress, but the Republicans there will oblige him.) After all, that martial label was good enough from George Washington to Harry Truman. And “war” is more honest and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sneha Revanur has been called the “Greta Thunberg of AI,” which depending on your politics, is an insult or, as the youngs would say, means she’s eating.

That’s good.

Either way, Revanur, a 20-year-old Stanford University senior who grew up in Silicon Valley, isn’t worried about personal attacks, though she’...Read more

In 1972, I taught at a Boston prep school where one of my students, Chantal, had been sent from Haiti by her privileged family to complete her secondary education. She was poised, serious, and ambitious. But what I remember most was her fear — and her warning.

"You Americans don't know how lucky you are," she would say, speaking in hushed ...Read more

If the means justify the ends, we’d still be operating under the Articles of Confederation. The Founders understood that the means—the governmental structure itself—must always serve the ends of liberty and prosperity. When the means no longer served those ends, they experimented with yet another design for their government—they did ...Read more

It’s now been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. Tied, along with Hurricane Harvey in 2017, as the costliest storm in U.S. history, Katrina significantly altered the way Americans think about natural disasters, federal assistance, and community resilience. We’ve spent years studying what happened next. To better plan ...Read more

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and in case you aren’t familiar with this terrible condition, sepsis is an extreme and often fatal reaction to infection that kills nearly 11 million people worldwide each year and affects more than 48 million. It’s responsible for 20% of all global deaths, meaning one in five people will die from sepsis....Read more

In a ruling likely to go down in history as a shameful expression of anti-immigrant prejudice, the Supreme Court has allowed ICE agents to re-start “roving stops” of people suspected of being undocumented immigrants because of what they look like, how they speak, and where they are gathered to work or seek employment.

The 6-3 ruling in the ...Read more

While Democrats struggle to forge a winning political formula and Republicans hurry to fall in line with a hyper-aggressive White House, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge there are still some in D.C. who are willing to stand on their own, regardless of which direction the political winds blow.

With the 2026 midterms just 14 months away,...Read more

McDonald’s wants to supersize its competitors’ wages.

In many states, restaurants are allowed to pay tipped employees a rate below the minimum wage. For instance, in Utah, a waitress can receive as little as $2.13 an hour from her employer. But the tips she earns can boost her pay well past the minimum wage. Nevada doesn’t allow this; all...Read more

More than 800 new laws took effect in Texas last week, the result of a busy legislative session in the Republican-controlled state. While much of the new legislation was aimed at addressing the traditional nuts and bolts of government and the quid pro quo of transactional politics, some of the most sweeping bills followed a pattern: Texas ...Read more

The Trump administration believes — correctly — that the existing prescription drug supply chain endangers our national security, especially when global demand surges as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

China, a military adversary under a communist regime, plays a key role in 90% of generic antibiotics and 8% of all active ...Read more

Donald Trump is waging war on California the way Rome did on Carthage.

He ordered the National Guard and the Marines to occupy parts of Los Angeles, over the objections of Gov. Gavin "Newscum" and Mayor Karen Bass. He's demanding that my alma mater, UCLA, pay a $1 billion fine over allegations of antisemitism. His Justice Department has sued ...Read more

My kids are still reeling from the cosmic injustice that Chick-fil-A closes on Sundays, and so it’s no surprise that, after a few Trump-free days, dopamine-deprived Americans were twitching for their next ALL CAPS fix from the attention economy’s reigning purveyor of entertaining outrage.

In case you missed it, President Trump recently ...Read more

As fans of the Golden Arches, we recall the days when any rational person craving a Quarter Pounder did a little math in their heads (we’re talking pre-phones, folks), figured out the drink would be almost free if they got the fries and went with the combo instead of the “sandwich only” option on what was then a pretty simple menu board.

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It's been more than 60 years since Utah backed a Democrat for president. The state's last Democratic U.S. senator left office nearly half a century ago and the last Utah Democrat to serve in the House lost his seat in 2020.

But, improbably enough, Utah has suddenly emerged as a rare Democratic bright spot in the red-vs.-blue redistricting wars....Read more

When Republicans believed former President Bill Clinton was immersed in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking scandal, they were all about demanding the Biden administration Justice Department to investigate him.

Now that Democrats are convinced the files implicate Trump, they are willing to risk throwing Clinton under the bus and have replaced ...Read more

Washington state leaders made the right decision joining Oregon, California and now Hawaii to form a West Coast Health Alliance. Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., federal health agencies are abandoning science. States must protect residents from dangerous misinformation masquerading as policy as best they can.

The...Read more