As Donald Trump rolled out his Cabinet choices last week, the strategy that consigliere Steve Bannon described during the president-elect's first term naturally popped to mind: "Flood the zone with s—." Overwhelm the media, the public and political opponents, including fellow Republicans, so fully that they can't process it all, and some crap ...Read more

Throughout the presidential campaign, voters consistently told pollsters that they were sick and tired of America’s broken immigration system and its porous border. And to the surprise of many Democrats, that number included many Latino voters and naturalized citizens in cities like Chicago that historically built their populations by ...Read more

At first glance, President-elect Donald Trump's most controversial Cabinet nominees — Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — are an odd list of ideologues and eccentrics chosen for political loyalty more than any substantive qualifications.

But there's a more important and potentially more dangerous factor that ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The state Legislature will convene a new two-year session on Dec. 2, and hopefully lawmakers have been reading the messages California voters sent them on election day.

The messages were straightforward and concise, although many elected officials who inhabit Sacramento's political cocoon tend to be tone-deaf to voices ...Read more

In a fitting and just outcome, Infowars, the hateful tool of the odious Alex Jones, who profited from horrid lies about the murdered of children of the Sandy Hook school massacre, is now the property of The Onion, with the backing of the families of the slain boys and girls.

So now the world’s leading “fake news” site, a place where ...Read more

Count me among the many who have carefully observed Donald Trump’s first days as president-elect for hints about what his presidency will be like.

It’s odd that this question is still on the table after Trump’s near-decade close to the center of American political life and his four years in the White House. And during the campaign, Trump ...Read more

It is hardly BREAKING NEWS to report that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of Health and Human Services, has for years been a fountain of conspiracy theories ranging from dangerous and evil to just plain wacky.

But today, while we are about to report what was one of his all-time worst, we are also going to spread ...Read more

It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

That slow burn of infections through our nation’s livestock, a new vessel for the virus, has never been good for public health. It creates more chances for the H5N1 virus to change in ways that put ...Read more

In choosing South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their party’s interest to be led by a Donald Trump supporter but not a sycophant. The fate of Trump’s second term hinges in no small part on whether Thune proves to have at least as much fortitude as the man he�...Read more

After spending $118 million of his personal wealth on the campaign to reelect Donald Trump as president, billionaire Elon Musk has been tapped to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency in the new administration with Vivek Ramaswamy, the chief executive officer of a pharmaceutical company and (very) brief Republican presidential candidate...Read more

I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job.

Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a record high since the pandemic hit, with 10% of ...Read more

In the final month of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, she appeared on several so-called “nontraditional” media shows. Most notably, Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, centered around women’s issues. She also made rounds on other radio and podcast shows, including with Howard Stern, Charlamagne tha God...Read more

As Western Pennsylvania's population continues to age, and the region's workforce continues to contract, the region will need increasing numbers of caretakers, more than the region can supply.

In recent years, immigrants have emerged as a reliable way to bolster this workforce, but an ongoing National Labor Relations Board case reveals exactly...Read more

In the wake of Democratic voters in cities and suburbs around the country staying home or trending right, resulting in big swings to Donald Trump almost uniformly, analysts and commentators have cast about for answers. We can posit at least one relatively straightforward one: lack of housing.

The motif of voters ignoring everything else that ...Read more

These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage.

A growing question as these disasters worsen in a warming world is how to pay for recoveries, particularly in poorer ...Read more

Please stay.

That’s my message to the 115,000 career employees at the U.S. Department of Justice. As a former DOJ employee, my heart breaks for them with the news of President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz to be our nation’s next attorney general.

The ranks of the Justice Department include prosecutors and civil attorneys, ...Read more

The newly announced Department of Governmental Efficiency, to be known by the acronym DOGE (get it?) and headed by billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is evidence that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will at least attempt to deregulate the U.S. economy. All memes aside, this could turn out to be a worthwhile ...Read more

It is easy to conclude that the woke revolution met its Waterloo on Nov. 5. The Republicans ran the most unwoke man in America for the presidency and were amply rewarded for it.

A post-election analysis by the polling company Blueprint discovered that the top reason why swing voters eventually supported former President Donald Trump over Vice ...Read more