Homeland Security has now withdrawn the vast majority of immigration officers it had surged to Minnesota, leaving fewer than 1,000 ICE personnel still there.
President Trump and Congress have plenty of leverage to force Hong Kong and its Chinese Communist Party overlords to release pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai.
Where money floats around without adequate safeguards, fraud is almost inevitable — and many programs seem almost deliberately designed to facilitate scams.
California is trying to shame rich people into bailing out the state’s failing budget, and the result will be a worse California where everyday workers are forced to pay even more than they pay now. California is workshopping a “one-time” 5% wealth tax on people with a net worth over $1 billion, which is about 200 people […]
I have a secret habit: I read advice columns the way other people read sports scores. If I’m being honest, they make me feel good about having a nice, boring life with a loving family and no real personal drama. The problems are different, the stakes feel personal, and the rhythms are familiar: betrayal, resentment, […]
Together we made it to the end of another year, which, in Trump administration time, has felt more like an eternity — with a few extra hours to boot. Before we submit ourselves to three more years in the politics-obsessed reality television show that is modern-day America, let’s look back at the winners and losers of […]
When I was 13 years old, I walked into the girls locker room at my Maine school to change for gym class like I did every day, except this day was different. A male student stood there. Like most seventh graders, I did not know how to react. I was shocked. But two things were […]
Washington talks a lot about empathy. So do the states. The word gets tossed around until it starts to mean “feeling something,” or worse, performing something, without doing the hard work of changing outcomes. Americans already sense there’s a difference between coddling and dignifying. One approach expands dependency or enabling and calls it compassion. The […]
Today is the fifth day of the 12 days of Christmas. Some may recognize this day from the famous song “The Twelve Days of Christmas” as the day of “five golden rings.” Others may recognize it as the feast day of St. Thomas of Canterbury, the archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his assassination in […]
President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new Trump-class guided missile battleship makes clear that he intends to strengthen America’s military power, whatever one thinks of the name. The battleships will, however, take a great deal of money and dockyard space that could be better spent on other warships suited to countering China. The key measure […]
