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Kilmar Abrego Garcia seen for first time since release, pledges to ‘continue to fight’ Trump admin

Salvadorean migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia vowed Friday to "continue to fight" the Trump administration following his release from federal immigration custody.

Why the US could snatch a Venezuelan tanker — and not under ‘wartime’ authority used in cartel strikes

Trump administration uses sanctions law, not military authority, to seize Venezuelan oil tanker tied to Iran network supporting terrorist groups.

DHS takes victory lap after arresting over 10K illegal aliens in deep blue city despite violent riots

Over 10,000 illegal immigrants, including murderers, kidnappers and sexual predators, have been arrested in Los Angeles since June despite pushback from sanctuary leaders and rioters.

Trump asks when he’ll be credited with creating ‘perhaps the Greatest Economy’ ever in US history

In a Truth Social post President Donald Trump asked when he will be credited for creating "perhaps the Greatest Economy in the History of our Country."

What if sex trafficking was the least of Diddy’s crimes?

Despite the prosecution’s eventual loss in its felony sex trafficking and racketeering case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, there was not an honest broker in America who walked away from Diddy’s acquittal on the more serious charges with the belief that the man was innocent. The world watched the former rap mogul kick, beat, and bruise […]

Dress for success: An unexpected call for civility

Ours is an era in which elected officials, like public figures more generally, have by and large abdicated their responsibility to model good behavior. Once, politicians felt compelled by the sweeping visibility of their office to demonstrate an outward sense of virtue, decorum, and etiquette. It would have been inconceivable for President John F. Kennedy […]

Trump grapples with immigration crisis far beyond the border

On a crisp autumn afternoon on Nov. 26, two blocks from the White House, the crack of gunfire shattered the routine of National Guard troops Sarah Beckstrom and Andrew Wolfe. Beckstrom, a 20-year-old enlistee from West Virginia deployed to bolster federal law enforcement, succumbed to her wounds hours later. Wolfe, shot in the leg and […]

Senatorial courtesy: Bad practices in political power can be challenged and changed

The Netflix series Death by Lightning offers a compelling, dramatic look at James Garfield‘s rise to the presidency. It also explores the journey of Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated Garfield when the newly elected president refused to give him a job in the administration under the “spoils system” that took shape over the previous […]

‘Garbage time’ for China’s ‘last generation’

China’s people, as is sometimes said, are “trying to breathe,” hoping to find some freedom from central control. Four female college students in the central city of Zhengzhou tried to breathe in June 2024 as they decided to take an overnight 50-kilometer bike ride to Kaifeng, where they could enjoy a meal of soup dumplings. […]

Lies, damned lies, and polarization

As a lifelong resident of rural America, I have grown accustomed to the media periodically sending journalists out to low-population areas to discover what is wrong with us, particularly after elections that Republicans win. In Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy, political scientists Suzanne Mettler and Trevor E. Brown continue the tradition, […]

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