The phrase “undocumented immigrant” is deeply misleading, if not outright inaccurate. It implies that there is a mass of people in the U.S. that essentially live off the grid, apart from society, existing only in informal economies and off-the-book transactions. In fact, immigrants who lack permission to be in the U.S. are enmeshed in ...Read more

After watching Donald Trump try to pin Wednesday’s awful air collision over the Potomac on the diversity of our air traffic controllers, I am going to retire the word “unbelievable” from my vocabulary.

We do not know what caused this national tragedy, and Trump said that. But he also suggested that 67 people lost their lives because Joe ...Read more

The phrase “undocumented immigrant” is deeply misleading, if not outright inaccurate. It implies that there is a mass of people in the U.S. that essentially live off the grid, apart from society, existing only in informal economies and off-the-book transactions. In fact, immigrants who lack permission to be in the U.S. are enmeshed in ...Read more

For the new Congress, deciding the fate of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will present an immediate dilemma. Allowing the law’s provisions to expire as scheduled at the end of the year would effectively raise taxes on tens of millions of Americans. Yet fully extending them would add almost $5 trillion to an already dire 10-year budget deficit....Read more

Every year, millions of Americans living abroad suffer a profound administrative indignity: complying with a U.S. income-tax regime that treats them like miscreants and complicates the lives even of those who owe nothing.

President Donald Trump has suggested he’d like to ease their burden. It’s a great idea.

The U.S. is almost unique in ...Read more

President Donald Trump has wisely muted his boasts of ending the Ukraine war in a day. His peacemaking energies might be better diverted to another intractable conflict: the U.S. standoff with Iran.

Iran, the main U.S. adversary in the Middle East, is weaker than it’s been in decades. A high inflation rate, a plummeting currency, capital ...Read more

With no evidence and with no proof, President Donald Trump recklessly and outrageously blamed Wednesday night’s horrid mid-air collision in Washington on his all-encompassing boogeyman of diversity, equity and inclusion.

How dare he. Using a time of great sorrow and mourning with the death of all 67 people on board the commercial airliner and...Read more

America’s commercial aviation industry has enjoyed a remarkable safety record over the past two decades, moving nearly 3 million passengers around the country each day virtually without incident. That’s what makes the midair collision between an American Eagle commuter jet and an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening even...Read more

Florida politics is in a state of upheaval, driven by the ambitions and maneuverings of Gov. Ron DeSantis. His recent actions have dominated headlines, but they raise a crucial question: Is he prioritizing governance or political positioning? As DeSantis juggles key appointments and legislative battles, the effectiveness of his ability to ...Read more

Last fall, a relatively unknown app called Watch Duty beat out Open AI, TikTok and Instagram to become the most downloaded iPhone app in the country. But Watch Duty wasn’t a venture-backed startup. It was an app I founded as a volunteer-funded nonprofit to track and share information about wildfires in real time after my own experience ...Read more

While we've been distracted by wildfire tragedies, and the dizzying stream of Project 2025-inspired directives flowing from the Oval Office, we cannot forget that the Republican-led war on women's reproductive rights shows no signs of waning.

In fact, it's heating up again.

Last week, a Democratic Mississippi state senator with a wry sense of ...Read more

On Tuesday, a majority of the nation’s 2.3 million federal workers received an email offering them the opportunity to resign and receive full pay and benefits until the end of September.

The move was straight out of corporate America’s playbook, including many media organizations dealing with declining revenue. It also echoed the dramatic ...Read more

On Jan. 22, a 17-year-old boy shot and killed a fellow student before killing himself at a high school in Nashville. It was the first fatal school shooting of the new year; it will almost certainly not be the last. In 2024, the United States saw 39 school shootings.

It doesn’t have to be this way. New national policies regarding secure gun ...Read more

As cyberattacks become more prevalent and sophisticated, state governments are finding it difficult to come up with the finances, skilled staff and other resources they need to combat this serious threat.

That was among the warnings in the latest biennial cybersecurity study from Deloitte and Touche, the world’s leading professional services ...Read more

During the recent election season, there was much talk of Donald Trump’s plan to lay tariffs on the importation of foreign goods. Pundits, politicians, and journalists to the left of center consistently referred to them as a tax on the American people. Many of those to the right of center, especially those of the MAGA contingent, seemed to ...Read more

In the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, newly confirmed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined ICE and other federal agencies for a Bronx raid focused on one detainee, whom Noem said was wanted for kidnapping, assault and burglary. We would think that Secretary Noem would have better uses of her time.

The Trump administration would have you ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reflects anger and frustration at the wanton greed underlying America’s health systems. Major changes are coming. But we must not let those changes leave us even worse off than we already are.

For decades, our capitalist health systems shaped by for-profit insurance, physician ...Read more

Onetime Trump "true believer" Stephanie Grisham, former press secretary to both Donald and Melania, famously told a national TV audience during last summer's Democratic National Convention that she knows firsthand that the president "has no empathy, no morals and no fidelity to the truth."

She recalled the advice Trump gave her for serving as ...Read more

During a Friday tour of communities in western North Carolina and neighborhoods in Los Angeles devastated by natural disasters, President Donald Trump told victims, state officials and assembled media that his administration would look to reform the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the nation’s foremost disaster response agency, or ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have said they want to bring back the “warrior” culture to the U.S. Armed Forces.

A key principle of that warrior ethos is to leave no one behind.

But the administration has abandoned 1,600 Afghans who had been vetted and ready to board a plane to the U.S. — part of a promise this...Read more