Just two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm, carving a trail of destruction and causing at least 227 deaths throughout six states, Hurricane Milton pummeled Sarasota, Florida, where I live, with Category 3 winds of more than 100 mph.

Like many other people in the state, I lost power and cell phone ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It's easy to argue why Americans should vote against Donald Trump.

The former president neither understands nor respects the Constitution. He would use the powers of the federal government as an instrument of his whims, prosecuting political opponents and rewarding donors instead of serving the public interest. Armed with a ...Read more

Donald Trump was already in the classroom when Brown v. Board of Education desegregated schools in 1954. He was about 30 before women were able to obtain their own credit cards, in his 40s before a Black man led a Fortune 500 company, and in his 60s before the election of President Barack Obama.

Trump is among the eldest of the baby boomers, ...Read more

Women of America, how do you feel about a man who says he'll be your protector "like it or not"? Another question: Do you even believe you need a protector?

The fact that Donald Trump thinks you do, and believes that he's the one to safeguard us damsels like it or not, is why he might well fail to win back the White House (please!).

Most women...Read more

Gallup recently published a list of what Americans consider the most pressing issues as they choose the next president. Unsurprisingly, there is no overlap between Republicans and Democrats on the top five.

Republicans say they are concerned about the economy, immigration, terrorism and national security, crime and taxes.

Democrats are ...Read more

One of Donald Trump’s enduring assertions is that Vladimir Putin would never have dared to invade Ukraine if Trump had been reelected in 2020. It’s an interesting hypothetical that relies on the premise that Putin, intimidated by Trump, was afraid to invade during Trump’s four years in office, waiting to act—according to this theory—...Read more

Election day is almost here, and the end of this tumultuous campaign season cannot come soon enough. But it may not come Tuesday night.

Given that the race for president is expected to be close, it’s quite possible that Americans will have to wait days to learn whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be the ...Read more

Immigration, especially that of undocumented migrants, is a key issue — perhaps the key issue — in the presidential race.

Despite the Biden administration's efforts to strengthen border security, the Trump campaign has taken a more extreme stance. Former President Donald Trump has spent months on the campaign trail pushing for mass ...Read more

Let’s call him the Bad Samaritan.

After Daniel Penny, a white subway passenger, subdued and choked a menacing Black homeless man, Jordan Neely, to death last year on a Manhattan train, two weeks passed before Penny was arrested.

If the roles had been reversed, Neely would have been in handcuffs before the next train rolled into the station. ...Read more

For believers, the question is literally sacrilegious: When should a church charge an admission fee? After all, a church is where many people go to be with God. It is a place of refuge. And it should be open to all, regardless of wealth. If Satan tempts, a church is a sanctuary.

And yet the most famous cathedral in the world, Notre Dame in ...Read more

India may now be the world’s most populous country, with a citizenry closing in on 1.45 billion people. “Overpopulation” has long been a concern: When he was re-elected for the second time in 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that dealing with a “population explosion” would be a major priority. His government tasked a special...Read more

Another election cycle, another round of hysteria. Let me guess: This is the “most important election of our lives.”

Brush this article off and reread it in a few years, and that will be the new “most important election of our lives,” when half the nation pretends to know precisely what’s best for the nation.

When was the last time ...Read more

People are hungry for information about their bodies. Nearly one-third of Americans don smartwatches and other wearable technology to measure things such as step counts, calories burned and heart rate, according to research published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open.

But simple measures like these don’t tell us much on their own. And ...Read more

Even the world’s fourth most-populous country, which has more active cell phones than people, seems to be no match for Apple Inc.

Indonesia’s ban on the sale of iPhone 16s after the company failed to meet local investment requirements didn’t faze investors. Shares of the world’s most-valuable company were largely unchanged by the news, ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin is suffering grievous manpower losses as a result of his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine. He has lost around 200,000 killed, double that number wounded, and at least 500,000 young men fleeing the Russian Federation to avoid the draft: a butcher’s bill of over a million.

As a result, he is turning to ...Read more

As the U.N.’s leading independent expert on the right to food, I have watched with growing horror over the past 12 months as Israel has weaponized hunger against approximately 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Now, alarming reports have emerged indicating that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is implementing a plan ...Read more

Late Halloween night, without any advance notice, Donald Trump suddenly sent an urgent message to George W. Bush, Mitt Romney and every patriotic, stalwart Republican Party loyalist. Including, perhaps you.

He made the most compelling argument yet that they must come back – just once more – to lead Republicans to take the only option left ...Read more

After the tsunami of racist, crude, and violent MAGA speeches at Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, it's no surprise that the label "fascist" is being applied to this wannabe despot.

His behavior during his first term — particularly his thwarted efforts to use the military against his "domestic enemies" — has driven ...Read more

It’s the worst-case presidential election scenario — a 269–269 tie in the Electoral College. In our hyper-competitive political era, such a scenario, though still unlikely, is becoming increasingly plausible, and we need to grapple with its implications.

Recent swing-state polling suggests a slight advantage for Kamala Harris in the Rust ...Read more

On Thursday morning we called for the resignation of the Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as president of the Chicago Board of Education.

By Thursday afternoon, Brandon Johnson told us in person at a board meeting he had asked for, and received, about Mitchell Johnson’s resignation.

Good. The mayor did the right thing, although Mitchell Johnson ...Read more