Gov. Gavin Newsom has the right political instincts as he seeks to insulate California from the potential economic catastrophe of a tax war on global trade, seeking to spare the state from retaliatory tariffs. Unfortunately, it just won’t work.

Sadly for California, this is a moment when Newsom would actually have to be the president to ...Read more

It's high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn't fit. President Donald Trump's brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene.

What we're seeing today with Trump ...Read more

Heading into Tax Day, if you listen to progressive policymakers for a few minutes, you’ll likely hear that few problems on Earth can’t be solved by “taxing the rich.” Want to nationalize health care? Tax the rich. Want to close the deficit? Tax the rich. Need a ball gown for the Met Gala? Tax the rich. Unfortunately, legislators not ...Read more

The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers has more than doubled in the last half-century. This massive upward redistribution of income was primarily a result of the ability of the rich to structure the economy in ways that benefited them: trade agreements, longer and stronger patent monopolies, and a hugely bloated ...Read more

With the death of a second child from measles and cases in the U.S. surging past 600, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, finally stated the obvious: Vaccination is the best way to prevent the spread of the disease.

It’s a message that should have come sooner from the country’s top public health ...Read more

We are very relieved that the Supreme Court has made the decision to keep in place an existing appeals court ruling that upheld New York’s so-called “sensitive locations” concealed firearm ban, which prohibited carrying hidden guns in parks, hospitals, stadiums and other such locations, as well as a requirement for permit holders to show �...Read more

President Donald Trump is taking a big risk that his tariff trade war will ultimately pay off – but in the meantime ordinary taxpayers who propelled him into the Oval Office are taking a huge hit with their life savings.

The man who preceded him in the White House – Joe Biden – never saw the level of economic angst that Trump is now ...Read more

“I can save someone’s life during an overdose.”

This is a statement we believe all students should be able to make by the time they graduate from high school. That’s why we — an undergraduate student and emergency physician — co-founded the Naloxone Education Initiative, with the mission of expanding opioid and naloxone education ...Read more

The recent release of the last reported bunch of classified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy yielded information on various mysterious CIA plans worldwide — but no agency involvement in Kennedy’s murder.

There was never any actual contact between the CIA and the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald; no second shooter;...Read more

Increasingly it is clear that the only checks on the unconstitutional acts of the Trump administration will come from the courts. But will the conservative Roberts court, with three justices appointed by Donald Trump, be willing to stop the president’s illegal acts?

The answer is unclear, although a ruling on Friday afternoon is disturbing ...Read more

Commentators keep pointing to the Trump administration’s Supreme Court “wins” over the past several days in cases involving the whirlwind of his executive orders, but in legal terms there’s a lot less to the victories than meets the eye.

Friday’s decision allowing the Department of Education to end $65 million in grants was really ...Read more

On Tuesday, the new Mega Millions lottery was launched. The lottery is promoting several enhancements, including a “built-in multiplier,” “bigger jackpots and secondary prizes,” and “better odds to win jackpot.” But are such enhancements in the best interest of those who buy lottery tickets or the lottery itself?

With these changes ...Read more

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Venezuelan immigrants accused of belonging to a gang and slated for deportation by the Trump administration have the right to a judicial hearing before they can be sent out of the country.

The court split 5-4 on where the hearings should be held and under what legal principle. The conservatives, minus ...Read more

Since the Trump administration has refused to guarantee that people being picked and deported using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act have the right to appear before a judge, the U.S. Supreme Court must.

In a short decision issued Monday, the high court vacated the order of D.C. Federal Judge James Boasberg that had prevented Homeland Security from ...Read more

At what point in a negotiation do you conclude that the other side is deliberately stalling? In business, the answer to this question is the definition of whether a sale goes through or dies on the vine. In war, it’s a matter of life and death.

Nearly one month since President Donald Trump’s administration opened indirect peace talks ...Read more

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele may have found the best description for Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s new approach to dictatorial regimes: a laughing emoji.

After a federal district judge ordered the administration to stop a U.S. flight deporting Venezuelans to his country, Bukele wrote on X, after the flight departed: “Oopsie…Too ...Read more

Lonnie G. Bunch III has never been afraid to address white supremacy. The leader of the Smithsonian Institution’s 21 museums and the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Bunch may be one of the few leaders in Washington fearless enough to navigate the Trump administration’s machine gun ...Read more

Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of technical knowledge developed for combat, he asked, spur the peacetime economy and improve public health? The resulting treatise, presented to Congress in 1945, established the nation’s commitment to ...Read more

People who start their regime by vacating a capital city probably have some disturbing plans.

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge forcibly evacuated all residents (including bedridden hospital patients) of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and all other sizable population centers.

Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work...Read more

Once, the United States was an uncontested superpower capable of fielding a military more powerful and more advanced than any other. No longer. Instead, a rival has emerged that poses a serious and credible threat to America and its allies.

Today, China boasts revisionist intentions evident through its buildup of the world’s largest navy and ...Read more