In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

California is about to ease into the 2026 race for governor, and if you can pick any of the current candidates from a police lineup, either you work in Sacramento, have an unhealthy obsession with state politics, or both.

That's not to impute criminality on the part of any of those running to succeed the term-limited Gavin Newsom. (Not that a ...Read more

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump inauguration comes as no surprise. Trump and major social media platforms have been warring for years over perceived anti-conservative bias, including ...Read more

Chicago traffic rivals New York City for worst in the nation. A report from Inrix consultants released on Jan. 5 shows Chicago commuters spend a whopping 102 hours a year in traffic. For comparison’s sake, commuters in Los Angeles rack up 88 hours, with Bostonians losing 79 hours per year to traffic congestion. Globally, only Istanbul has ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is correct in stalling the decision to ban TikTok from appearing before the Supreme Court. This delay reinforces the position of diplomacy or peace through strategy. Previously scheduled to appear before the Supreme Court on January 19, the day before the presidential inauguration, Trump is trying to push a pause.

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If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a parent’s heart. Babies can wind up hospitalized or even die from the bacterial infection.

That’s why the recent surge in cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, should serve as a warning that we need ...Read more

Since his election, President-elect Donald Trump has outlined targeted tariff proposals aimed at addressing pressing international issues. The most successful relates to Canada and Mexico’s responsibility for illegal immigration. Increasingly, targeted tariffs are being used as sanctions in areas well beyond trade policy.

Trump is already ...Read more

As Democrats continue their election post-mortems, they ought to do an autopsy on one of their favorite words of 2024: weird.

When Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called Republicans “weird” as he auditioned to be Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, the word became a viral hit and a staple of the campaign. Voters, however, never seemed to ...Read more

On Dec. 16, in Madison, Wisconsin, 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow shot and killed two other people before taking her own life. Authorities quickly discovered that she had allegedly plotted the attack with Alexander Paffendorf, a 20-year-old California man who admitted to having his own plan to arm himself with a gun and explosives and target a ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is no stranger to making bold statements. Many see his asking the Supreme Court to pause the looming TikTok ban to allow his administration to pursue a political resolution as another example of his fearlessness.

As someone who has long championed free speech and individual liberties, I applaud Trump’s recognition...Read more

In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

Left foundering after Vice President Kamala Harris’ stunning defeat, the Democratic Party is engaged in the age-old political ritual: Each faction is pointing fingers and laying blame at the other’s feet for the loss.

The election of a new national party chair in February will be an early signal about what course the party figures to chart ...Read more

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