Many voters elected President Donald Trump to end border chaos. Illegal immigration remains low, but voters’ opinions of his immigration policies as a whole have soured. The reason is that they view Trump’s actions away from the border as just more chaos. Americans aren’t against enforcement. But not like this.

So what’s the root ...Read more

From generation to generation, it seems, Los Angeles burns.

During World War II, white Angelenos attacked Mexican and Filipino Americans who wore zoot suits as identifiers of racial pride and protest. In 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called in to help bring a peaceful end to the Watts Riots. While condemning the violence, King called ...Read more

Like all sponsors of science programs, NASA has had its ups and downs. What makes it unique is that its achievements and failures almost always happen in public.

Triumphs like the moon landings and the deep-space images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes were great popular successes; the string of exploding rockets in its early days and ...Read more

Finally obeying the Supreme Court’s ruling 9-0 to return to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland man with legal protections who was illegally sent to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, the Trump administration has followed the law and brought him back. That is good.

But this being the Trump administration, Abrego García is now ...Read more

On April 24, President Donald Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the latter would be a violation of international law.

Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea— the...Read more

American history has the receipts. As we approach the 250th anniversary of this nation’s birth, it ought to be common knowledge that putting the National Guard into the center of turmoil is not to be taken at all lightly.

Federalizing the California Guard to quell a supposed insurrection on the streets of greater Los Angeles is a bold move ...Read more

It should have made headlines when recently, 12,000 lives were placed on the line because a shipment of day-old chicks, turkeys, geese and quail was abandoned in a stifling U.S. Postal Service (USPS) truck. Trapped for days with no food or water, thousands of these vulnerable chicks perished before being discovered. The post office had deemed ...Read more

The popcorn emoji is out in force as the world’s richest person feuds with its most powerful leader. Even Thierry Breton, the European regulator who was a frequent target of Elon Musk’s ire, is at it. Still, as entertaining as the billionaire’s spat with President Donald Trump may be, it also carries costly lessons for a $630 billion space...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is on pace to set a record that no one should admire and that any Floridian of conscience should regret.

He will finish his second term having carried out 48 executions, the most in Florida since records have been kept, if he continues at his current accelerated rate.

Five executions have occurred since February, with...Read more

The roiling confrontation in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement has laid bare President Donald Trump’s hunger for confrontation with those sections of the country that oppose him and his agenda. In words and actions alike, Trump has shown he views blue states and cities not as legitimate partners in governing, but as hostile territory to...Read more

After President Donald Trump illegally federalized and deployed 2,000 California National Guard troops to ostensibly a nonexistent rebellion in Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom has sued the White House and Pentagon.

Good; in this country, these are battles that should be fought in the courts, not the streets, and an independent federal judge ...Read more

Twice in a recent two-week period, two men were arrested for terrorist attacks while invoking “Free Palestine.” For them, the phrase served as a rallying cry sanctioning violence.

Their targets were, in the deadly Washington, D.C., attack outside the Jewish Museum, a young couple, and in Boulder, Colorado, people attending a vigil for the ...Read more

The use of the military to quell protests is something associated with dictators in foreign countries, and as of Saturday night, with a president of the United States.

When President Donald Trump federalized 2,000 members of the California National Guard, deploying them because of protests against federal immigration authorities, he sent a ...Read more

Ukraine’s audacious drone attack on Russian air force bases was a remarkable display of courage and resourcefulness. While the full extent of the damage is still unknown, the destruction of several strategic bombers is another reminder that Kyiv remains determined in its struggle against Moscow’s invasion.

President Donald Trump should find...Read more

Five years is a blink in American history—a nation built on contradiction, striving, and unfinished business. It was five years ago that a Minneapolis police officer extinguished the life of George Floyd, and the world has felt the tremors.

I watched, powerless, as the video looped and looped on screens large and small. Still, I recall the ...Read more

There's a line in Eric Coomer's defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, that strikes me as the perfect description of what happens when influential partisans belch lies about innocent people in these insanely charged political times:

"The real world consequences for the subjects of those lies," says the lawsuit, "have been ...Read more

President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles, over the objection of California Governor Gavin Newsom, represents a structural threat to democracy. The law on which Trump relied permits domestic deployment only in cases of invasion by a foreign nation, rebellion, or danger of a rebellion.

Newsom said he intends to sue...Read more

America is more divided than ever, not just along party lines but by an economic fault line.

On one side, tech hubs like Silicon Valley — home to Apple, Google, Nvidia and Tesla — are amassing vast amounts of wealth.

On the other side, manufacturing towns like Warren, Ohio, and Johnstown, Pa., are suffering from decades of disinvestment ...Read more

Sometimes it takes a self-indulgent public-relations stunt to remind us of what’s important. Monday’s inevitably intercepted aid flotilla to Gaza was one of those occasions.

As the organizers of the convoy intended, the detention of the Madleen — a yacht carrying irrelevant quantities of humanitarian aid — grabbed international ...Read more

Americans unhappy with President Donald Trump’s second term have taken to wishing for something they shouldn’t.

If only the U.S. Treasury bond market were to crash, the thinking goes, then Trump would be forced to change his policies. Bond traders could simply knock down the whole economic house of cards and then, presto! Goodbye to tariffs...Read more