Most tomatoes from Mexico will face a 21% tariff effective July 14, the U.S. Department of Commerce said recently. Ironically, the “love apple” may be the perfect illustration of how trade contributes to economic prosperity — and of the folly of President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies.

First and foremost, the tomato trade gives ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to preserve a key component of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) that requires insurers to fully cover preventive care such as colon and lung cancer screenings. That’s a huge relief.

The case, Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, has enormous consequences for the health of millions of Americans.

But the ...Read more

Listen closely to the arguments of the House Republicans pushing the so-called “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act” and you realize they aren’t interested in solving the problem the bill purports to address: non-citizens voting in federal elections.

If you take the proponents of the bill at their word — that the measure is ...Read more

The electrification of everything is the biggest shake up the global energy system has seen in decades. Unfortunately, the route to the future is hung up by the culture wars of the energy transition and the fight against climate change. That’s putting pressure on the advocates of electric vehicles, heat pumps and wind turbines to address the ...Read more

In his 10 years as a presidential contender Donald Trump has always benefited politically by attacking immigrants, winning support for his promises of a hardline border crackdown. Yet now that’s he’s actually doing it — and in such a cruel fashion — the president is, for the first time, getting poor marks from voters, with a YouGov poll ...Read more

President Donald Trump promised a “secret weapon” in his new executive order on university accreditation. Sure enough, it’s there, hiding in plain sight. The order includes an as-yet-unnoticed directive to the Department of Education to pressure the accreditors to push universities “to prioritize intellectual diversity amongst faculty.�...Read more

“The court finds that the defendant is irretrievably depraved, permanently incorrigible, irreparably corrupt and beyond any rehabilitation.”

Anything unclear about that?

The statement made Thursday by Lake County Judge Victoria Rossetti about Robert Crimo III, the man convicted of killing seven people and wounding 48 others when he opened ...Read more

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order intended to ensure that only eligible citizens can vote in U.S. elections. While we laud the purpose of the order, a better approach would be to look at how states are using data that they already possess to determine a voter’s citizenship, and identify ways that the federal government ...Read more

There is something particularly American about the way we're dismantling our democracy these days – we are doing it with paperwork. While the world watches our grand political theater, immigration agents are quietly canceling visas, filling out deportation orders, and reshaping the boundaries of acceptable speech without firing a single shot. ...Read more

I had a nightmare that my mom was being deported. I dreamed of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents coming to our home and taking her away. The current climate has unlocked a childhood fear. My mom did not become a citizen until 1997, and in my early years, I was afraid that I would go to school and never see her again. I was afraid ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s disregard for the rule of law is as clear as it could be. Consider that the three justices he appointed to the Supreme Court all joined a middle-of-the-night emergency decision blocking the unlawful deportation of more Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador — after the court had already ruled 9-0 that no one should be ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s ICE Age has created a glacial array of unintended immigration and customs enforcement consequences. And there may be far more beneath the surface that we haven’t yet discovered.

For example, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, his wife and three children with special needs weren’t the only individuals who suffered when the ...Read more

I had been falling a lot. It was almost as if my small feet were suddenly too big. Then my symptoms took a darker turn.

“I can’t see!” I gasped one frigid January morning in 1997. Beside me, my boyfriend asked, “What do you mean you can’t see?”

I couldn’t catch enough breath to speak normally. My left eye hurt, and I could only ...Read more

In between handling “emergency” appeals regarding President Donald Trump’s frenetic agenda, the U.S. Supreme Court must address its regular docket. The panel’s latest case deserves attention for a number of reasons.

On Tuesday, the justices heard arguments in a dispute between parents and a Maryland school district that uses LGBTQ-...Read more

President Donald Trump proposed eliminating the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the entire staff was laid off on March 31. This is not the first time he suggested this as a cost-saving measure. His proposal was rejected in 2019, and it must be rejected again. The IMLS only accounts for 0.0046% of the federal budget, yet its ...Read more

Student loan borrowers are learning a harsh lesson familiar to most adults: when you take out a loan and agree to pay it back, there are consequences if you don’t.

Cue the outrage.

The Department of Education announced that it will restart collecting federal student loans in default on May 5, ending a years-long pandemic-era pause, according...Read more

After President Donald Trump brought global economics to the brink of meltdown with his erratic unilateral tariff decrees, Tyler Page and Maggie Haberman reported in the New York Times that Trump told Republicans “I know what the hell I’m doing!” and, after reversing himself, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said he was acting “...Read more