Six weeks into his second term, Donald Trump took an early victory lap Tuesday in his 100-minute address to Congress, promising Americans he will “usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.”

Trump has never lacked confidence, of course, and the address was typical of his unique oratory style and hyperbolic ...Read more

Elon Musk has his hands full these days. From rampaging through federal departments with the energy of a feudal lord to flirting with right-wingers in Germany’s last election, it’s hard to imagine that a state supreme court race would rank high on his list.

Yet he has turned his sights to Wisconsin, shoveling enough money into a state ...Read more

When we think of wildfire fighters, we picture helicopters dropping water, firefighters battling flames and evacuations in the nick of time. But there’s another group on the frontlines — farmers and ranchers. For hundreds of years, the people growing our food have been quietly saving our landscapes as well.

As wildfire resilience educators ...Read more

In 1982, a year after shepherding President Ronald Reagan’s tax cut — the biggest ever — through the U.S. Senate, Republican Bob Dole decided something had to be done about the resulting increase in the federal deficit. That something was the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, which closed income-tax loopholes and increased ...Read more

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order to address the transgender athletes participating in high school sports. Trump’s order threatened the loss of federal funding if public schools permit transgender students to participate in sports — the latest attack against trans people that attempts to harm trans children.

School ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he is opposed to war, but he has started an unwinnable trade war that will make losers of the American people, American companies and the American economy.

Trump has now instituted 25% across-the-board tariffs against Mexico and Canada, our biggest trading partners, which also happen to be our neighbors with ...Read more

In his first address to Congress since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump emphasized his campaign to restrict transgender athletes, and culture war favorites such as renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali, for nearly 20 minutes before turning to pocketbook issues that are frustrating so many Americans.

For Trump, this ...Read more

To paraphrase Shakespeare, a tax by any other name costs as much. Despite President Donald Trump’s self-professed love affair with tariffs, they are a tax just like any other tax. They raise prices and reduce purchasing power.

Taxes aren’t always bad, but the question is what we hope to accomplish with tariffs. President Joe Biden imposed ...Read more

Tariff advocates have three main arguments. One, they raise revenue. Two, they revive domestic industries. And three, they are a diplomatic negotiating tool. Not only do these arguments not stand on their own, they contradict one another.

It’s true the government consumes lots of money. Currently, its primary source of revenue other than ...Read more

In Donald Trump’s speech, personalities loomed large. Whether it was George Washington’s second best presidency or Elon Musk’s brilliant work at the Department of Government Efficiency or Joe Biden’s disastrous egg statesmanship, Trump’s perspective was just a bit cracked. But on one subject, the whole dozen fell out of the cart and ...Read more

America has long been celebrated as the land of the free — a place where agency, independence and self-determination are enshrined in our national mythos. Whether idealizing the rugged frontiersman or the daring entrepreneur, Americans take pride in the idea of forging their own paths. Yet despite these stated ideals, we often surrender our ...Read more

America holds its warfighters to the highest standard, expecting them to defend our nation at a moment’s notice. In exchange, we pledge to support them after their term of service ends.

Unfortunately, that support has long fallen short of the mark. Despite its abundant funds, the Department of Veterans Affairs has consistently failed to ...Read more

Perhaps the most frequently cited quote from Donald Trump relevant to his purported efforts to root out government waste has been “we’re not touching Social Security,” or variations thereof.

I expressed skepticism about this pledge shortly after the election by listing all the oblique ways the Trump administration could hack away at the ...Read more

NACO, Ariz. — John Ladd sleeps better knowing Donald Trump is in the White House.

Not just in some figurative sense. When Ladd lays his head down at his ranch house a mile and a quarter from the U.S.-Mexico border, he no longer worries about hundreds of trespassers a day trampling his pastures, tearing up fencing or setting his cattle loose....Read more

President Donald Trump spent much of his first month in office attacking the rights of transgender Americans, including stripping away teens’ access to health care.

Although two separate federal judges have temporarily blocked the president’s executive order banning gender-affirming care for minors, parents’ relief is tempered by ...Read more

In the wake of his confrontational meeting at the White House, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struck a far more conciliatory tone on Tuesday and said he is ready negotiate a road to peace. The Trump administration should take him at his word.

“Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed ...Read more

Early in my career as a pediatrician, it would not be unusual to get a phone call in the middle of the night from the worried parent of a child with a high fever. I got out of bed, met the family in the emergency room and sat with them while their child was evaluated. It could be a terrifying night, with painful tests to rule out serious ...Read more

Former Miami Republican U.S. Rep. Lincoln Díaz-Balart, who died Monday at 70 after a battle with cancer, was a political towering figure in Miami’s Cuban exile community — a fierce opponent of Fidel Castro and a devoted advocate for a free Cuba.

Sadly, Díaz-Balart is yet another Cuban exile outlived by the communist Castro regime, which ...Read more

For most of this century, large numbers of unaccompanied children have been landing in the U.S. in need of services. They are a varied group. Some are fleeing violent gangs in their home countries and are desperately in need of sanctuary. Others are seeking economic opportunity or reunification with family members in the U.S., neither of which ...Read more