The funeral Thursday of former President Jimmy Carter brings back powerful memories of what I believe was his greatest achievement: the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

I was based in Jerusalem at the time as a Middle East correspondent covering the Arab world. From the Israeli capital and Cairo, I watched the run-up and aftermath...Read more

When Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter arrived in Washington in 1977, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight on the Washington side of the relationship. The peanut farmers from Plains were outsiders, in both style and substance, and seemed to have little interest in adapting to the ways of the nation’s capital. President Carter, in particular, ...Read more

As President Joe Biden’s White House tenure winds down, he continues to put progressive policies before people.

His administration’s latest move is to ban certain natural gas water heaters from the market as an anti-climate change strategy. Critics have blasted the move, saying it will spike energy costs for low-income and senior households...Read more

Here are some rough calculations of when some of America's richest individuals fulfilled their Social Security tax obligations for 2025: For Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook, it was at about 2 p.m. on New Year's Day. For McDonald's CEO Christopher Kempczinski, sometime on the morning of Jan. 3. For Elon Musk, it was sometime around 12:31 a.m. New ...Read more

Elon Musk is in a free-speech fight over his decision to demonetize the content of some far-right MAGA critics who disagreed with his immigration views on his social media platform X. What is most remarkable about the argument is that both sides fail to acknowledge the simple truth of how speech, free or otherwise, works on social media. It’s ...Read more

Ben Wikler, the chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party and a leading contender to run the country’s, has won some acclaim from liberals for making an obvious point: Candidates need to go where the voters are. In terms of media, that means nontraditional and less politicized sources such as podcasts, YouTube and TikTok.

The 2024 presidential ...Read more

Republicans are set to take total control of Congress and the White House and there’s excitement around getting to achieve long-desired goals. Immigration reform is near the top of the GOP priority list.

So it’s not surprising there’s talk in Washington, D.C., of enshrining some of those policies into law without Democratic support. But ...Read more

Donald Trump’s election with Republican House and Senate majorities has put the Internal Revenue Service back in the spotlight. The agency lost $20 billion in funding under the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, and further cuts to its enforcement budget are likely in the next Congress.

Democrats denounce such moves as harmful to ...Read more

Has any (unelected) figure come to huge power with such rapidity as Elon Musk? Aside from becoming Donald Trump’s consigliere and the founder of United Airlines’ new main Wi-Fi provider, Musk has started using his massive platform on X, where he has 211 million followers and owner’s privileges, to inflict all kinds of pain on mostly left-...Read more

Donald Trump, formally and peacefully certified this week as the next president, wants to launch his second term by ramming through a “big, beautiful bill” that will encompass everything from immigration to energy to taxes. Glopping all that into a single package is a terrible idea and the Congress should not go along.

Perhaps the president...Read more

We can’t have it both ways. We can’t.

When the Democratic nominee for president hails from a Historically Black College or University, we want to puff out our chests and swell with pride.

“Kamala Harris is a Bison,” we bragged. “She’s reppin’ Howard U.”

Some of us had never even stepped on a Black campus, but we were as proud ...Read more

The horrendous ramming of pedestrians on a densely packed New Orleans street hours into New Year’s Day celebrations was a revolting display of senseless violence. The attack using a truck, which killed 14 people and injured dozens of others, was quickly categorized as an act of terrorism inspired by the Islamic State terrorist group, whose ...Read more

It took me 10 years after leaving the military to call myself a veteran.

It was an act of reclamation. My enlistment was defined by sexual harassment. More than a decade later, the thinking that caged me then still circulates: Women service members are worth less.

As a Marine, I hemorrhaged my own power. I stayed silent at rape jokes and ...Read more

The state of Texas filed a major lawsuit on Dec. 12 against a New York doctor who mailed abortion pills to a Collin County, Texas, woman, arguing that the doctor was practicing medicine without a Texas license and violating the state’s abortion ban. The suit raises messy legal questions about whether one state can haul a doctor abiding by the ...Read more

I was 21 when Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. Over the four years of his presidency, I started my newspaper career, got married, had two daughters, bought a house and sold it and then bought another, and lost my father.

It was the most eventful stretch of my life. What should have been a period of hope for the possibilities ahead was too ...Read more

If he thought he was selling something that anyone wanted to buy, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sure got a wake-up call. In his initial 2025 budget proposal this past fall, Johnson requested a shocking $300 million property tax increase, saying he was “asking families to lean in and do a little bit more.”

Failing to convince said families,...Read more

Just days remain before Joe Biden is officially sent into retirement. How much more damage can he do? If the past month is any indication, the answer is plenty.

In keeping with Biden’s pattern in recent weeks of using the powers of his office for personal and political purposes, the president last week nixed a proposed $14 billion merger ...Read more

Whether it’s the virtual assistants in our phones, the chatbots providing customer service for banks and clothing stores, or tools like ChatGPT and Claude making workloads a little lighter, artificial intelligence has quickly become part of our daily lives.

We tend to assume that our robots are nothing but machinery — that they have no ...Read more