Donald Trump wants to punish ABC News for his bad debate night.

“I think ABC took a big hit last night,” Trump told Fox & Friends during a phone debrief early Wednesday morning. “To be honest, they are a news organization — they have to be licensed to do it — they ought to take away their license for the way they did that.”

His ...Read more

Russian disinformation continues to poison U.S. politics via our social media platforms. As the tactics grow more sophisticated, our best defense may be building resilience rather than hoping to eliminate it.

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced two law enforcement actions relating to a covert Russian disinformation campaign....Read more

Politicians seldom pay a political price when they talk out of both sides of their mouths, tell everyone what they want to hear, and don’t do what they promised.

However, on the issue of reparations, it may be different.

In September 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3121, creating the “Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation...Read more

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or states to engineer a pathogen that would spread faster, resist vaccines better and kill more people than COVID-19 did. Governments, technology ...Read more

Each election, millions of Americans miss out on the opportunity to cast their votes because they are not registered. Some may have moved; others may not realize they need to update their voter registration, while others missed the deadline. In polling, thousands of non-voters consistently cite registration issues as their reason for not ...Read more

The arrest in France of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has brought into sharp focus one of the major conflicts of our age. On one hand, we want privacy in our digital lives, which is why we like the kind of end-to-end encryption Telegram promises. On the other, we want the government to be able to stamp out repugnant online activities — ...Read more

Since the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs drew up a plan to build 1,200 units of housing for homeless veterans on its West Los Angeles campus to settle a lawsuit, progress has been appallingly slow. Eight years later, just 233 are open and an additional 535 are under construction.

But a new ruling in another lawsuit against the VA will ...Read more

Political consultants and pundits debate whether presidential campaigns should devote more resources to activating the base or persuading the undecided. For congressional candidates who are challenging the majority party, however, prioritizing persuasion is a must.

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I sat down with two House ...Read more

If it's strength they need, there's strength in numbers.

I'm referring to former officials who worked for Donald Trump, especially the national security stewards, who have declined to come forward publicly and directly to warn voters that he's unfit to be president — even though, as insiders know well, that's how they feel.

Imagine the pre-...Read more

National security adviser Jake Sullivan’s recent trip to Beijing is a good sign that President Joe Biden’s administration is taking U.S.-China relations seriously. While the visit did not result in any bilateral agreements, the two leaders agreed on having a near-term phone call.

As the fifth meeting between Sullivan and Chinese Foreign ...Read more

Fall is peak wedding season, and if all those declarations of “I do” have you thinking about popping the question, why not choose a compassionate, planet-friendly way to do so? A proposal is the first line in a story of shared dreams and an opportunity to lay a foundation for a relationship built on kindness. There are endless ways to ...Read more

Earlier this month, four people were shot to death on a train in Chicago. Two days later, four people were shot to death at a school in Georgia. No one is safe. It can happen when people are at their most vulnerable: The victims in Chicago were shot as they slept. They can be shot where they are supposed to be safe: The victims in Georgia were ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — I know, I was a weird kid. Born during the time when parents bought sets of World Book or Britannica encyclopedias, I was the girl who would sit down and read the dictionaries that came with the set.

Hey, I was a latchkey kid and had a couple of hours to kill waiting for my working parents to get home.

Today, students aren...Read more

While the world’s attention largely remains fixated on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, U.S. officials across the national security apparatus also have another part of the globe on their minds: the South China Sea. This vast expanse of islands, reefs, rocks and atolls is the site of contested claims among multiple Asian countries, and its ...Read more

We’re collectively capable of amazing feats, so long as two conditions are met: first, that we’re generous with our time and energy and, second, that we’re willing to trust one another. That’s my takeaway from a 20-hour, 40-minute experience I had with the Fat Cat Track Club last month.

About 200 miles separate Mt. Hood from the Oregon ...Read more

Like any demagogue, Donald Trump employs different lies for different needs. But dishonesty is the core of his existence. The Republican Party has had a more tumultuous conversion experience to Trumpism. Republican Senator Ted Cruz, for example, has had to revise his condemnation of Trump as a “pathological liar” to suit the demands of a ...Read more

This week began the federal antitrust trial against Google for alleged monopolistic practices when it comes to the online advertising space, with the Justice Department contending that the company has outsize dominion over what is a lifeline for industries including online publishing. Google, of course, doesn’t see it that way.

Google seems ...Read more

When it comes to policy matters, polling shows that Vice President Kamala Harris has lots of vulnerabilities. But where she stands on abortion isn’t one of them.

So, it was no surprise that the moderators of Tuesday’s presidential debate raised the topic early, before a lot of Americans tuned out.

Whether her exchange with rival Donald ...Read more

The reason both leading presidential candidates have favorability ratings under 50% was on full display during Tuesday’s presidential debate.

Start with former President Donald Trump. Coming into the debate, his job was simple. Inform voters of Vice President Kamala Harris’ radical record and remind them that things were better when he was ...Read more

It was Hillary Clinton who observed of her 2016 presidential campaign rival: “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.”

All indications from Tuesday evening’s presidential debate are that Donald Trump today is easier to bait than ever. Moreover, his lifelong habit of publicly describing (and ...Read more