The Department of Justice under the Trump administration is going after a tiny Idaho town you’ve probably never heard of.

The Justice Department filed a religious liberty lawsuit against the town of Troy in Latah County, just outside Moscow, saying that the denial of a permit for Christ Church’s proposed move was unlawful, according to ...Read more

When Chevron’s oil license in Venezuela expired Tuesday, Miami Republicans in Congress and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, another Miamian, notched a big foreign policy win — and offered a bit of much-needed good news for Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan immigrant community.

The victory comes in spite of a push by Richard Grenell, President Donald...Read more

Seattle’s reputation for being clean and green took a little bit of a hit in the latest American Lung Association “State of the Air” report, looking at three years of data.

The city was ranked ninth on the list of 25 worst cities for levels of short-term particle pollution, meaning that we breathed in, for short periods, air that was ...Read more

American universities have long feared that the Chinese government will restrict its country’s students from attending institutions that cross Beijing’s sensitive political lines.

Universities still fear that consequence today, but the most immediate threat is no longer posed by the Chinese government. Now, as the latest punishment meted ...Read more

Tallahassee’s dealership-driven car sales legislation made Tesla a winner in 2023 by allowing it to bypass dealerships and sell cars directly to Floridians, even while banning the practice for others.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier intends to make another automotive startup, Scout Motors, a loser for just thinking about it.

That’s...Read more

President Donald Trump has been forthright and transparent in his desire to enrich himself with his cryptocurrency memecoin profiting off of his high public office. Trump is beyond shame, but this corrupt debasement of the Oval Office is accepted by so many who should know better, including his fellow Republicans.

Unlike the hundreds of other ...Read more

“If all else fails, push the start button, look for smoke, and repair what is burning.” During my 15 years working with industry, this was common advice when dealing with troublesome complex electric controls that just would not respond to a more scientific analysis. And it worked. Should we expect a president hellbent on changing the world ...Read more

“Will it pass?” a Republican donor and occasional source from New York asked me, referring to the sweeping $2.5 trillion reconciliation package of tax cuts and fresh spending priorities working its way through Congress.

I’ve been getting that question a lot lately. Mostly, I hear from interested political observers who work in business or...Read more

From Istanbul to the Vatican to the Oval Office, everyone seems to want peace in Ukraine — except Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin says it prefers to end the brutal war it launched in 2022 through “political and diplomatic means,” but that’s like a pickpocket claiming to prefer charity: The bluff only works if others fall for it. Ukraine’s ...Read more

These are nervous times in the food industry. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy is centralizing control of health-related agencies under his authority. He’s advancing his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign by, paradoxically, slashing more than 80,000 from the federal health workforce. That sets the stage for what ...Read more

For many college students these days, life is a breeze. Assignments that once demanded days of diligent research can be accomplished in minutes. Polished essays are available, on demand, for any topic under the sun. No need to trudge through Dickens or Demosthenes; all the relevant material can be instantly summarized after a single chatbot ...Read more

Imagine President Donald Trump waking up to the news that California faces a $12 billion deficit, and instead of letting the state reckon with its budget bloat, announcing a plan to make taxpayers in West Virginia, Ohio and the Dakotas help bail out the likes of Gov. Gavin Newsom. Unfortunately, a small band of Republicans in the House has been ...Read more

When Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy visited Philly Shipyard, they did more than highlight Philadelphia’s leading role in the Trump administration’s effort to revitalize the American shipbuilding industry. They emphasized the positive economic effect this effort will have at Philly Shipyard: “We�...Read more

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred recently removed Pete Rose’s permanent ban from baseball, which will make him eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame. Manfred reinstated 17 other banned players as well, including members of the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox who threw the World Series, including the team’s star “Shoeless” Joe Jackson....Read more

Door after door, the response was the same: “Why would I vote? It’s not going to change anything.” Even in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the key swing counties of the 2024 election, people felt despondent—powerless. But three months later, those neighbors had organized with hundreds of others in the city to win $20 million for their ...Read more

As Republicans work to advance their mega bill, the debate over the $10,000 cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) is again heating up. GOP lawmakers from high-tax blue states, facing pressure from constituents burdened by aggressive state and local tax regimes, have been lobbying President Donald Trump and Republican ...Read more

The AI race that warrants the lion’s share of our attention and resources is not the one with China. Both superpowers should stop hurriedly pursuing AI advances for the sake of “beating” the other. We’ve seen such a race before. Both participants lose.

The real race is against an unacceptable status quo: declining lifespans, increasing...Read more

The president of the United States spent his Tuesday morning publicly harassing a 16-year-old high school junior. Her only crime? The talented student athlete won two California Interscholastic Federation titles in the girls’ long jump and triple jump at the Southern Section finals held Saturday and is now entitled to compete in the state ...Read more