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Right now, as you read this, Iranian protesters are facing live ammunition in Tehran’s streets. Women risk execution for removing their hijabs. Some 12,000 to 20,000 people are feared dead from the protest crackdown. The...Read more

If you follow what presents itself as “reporting” these days you have likely heard about a 5-year-old boy in Minneapolis who was used as “bait” to get his father, who had abandoned him, to return so he could be ...Read more

This month, as Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act plans opened their first bills of 2026 and experienced sticker shock, President Donald Trump began pitching them on an alternative: his “Great Healthcare Plan,” ...Read more

Nearly two years ago, this page endorsed bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by Illinois congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, to force the Chinese owners of TikTok to divest the wildly popular app’s platform in the U.S. or ...Read more

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a ...Read more

We hate them for not liking our LinkedIn posts.

Of course, not really. But who hasn’t refreshed their browser repeatedly to see how many likes their latest post has — or hasn’t — garnered, and from whom?

While it...Read more

Health care in 2025 was consumed by chaos, conflict and relentless drama. Yet despite unprecedented political turmoil, cultural division and major technological breakthroughs, there was little meaningful improvement in how...Read more

For those who think about politics in terms of ideology and rigid categories, the extraordinary events in Venezuela pose an uncomfortable question: what is the morally correct position to take in a drama this complex?

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to stop quantifying the health benefits of regulating soot and ozone is a victory for polluters and a loss for the public. Masking the benefits will make it easier for the ...Read more

How better could the deep mystical truth we need today be represented than by Dictionary.com’s choice of “6-7” as 2025’s word of the year?

This was insightful not because of the brain rot that produced this ...Read more

A federal judge heard arguments on Jan. 26, 2026, as the state of Minnesota sought a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operation in the state. The administration ...Read more

The three major Democratic candidates vying to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin clashed Monday night over who would be the strongest opponent to President Donald Trump and his aggressive deportation enforcement ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A compromise spending package would solidify the Trump administration’s drastic cuts to oversight components at the Department of Homeland Security at a time when clashes with the public have raised ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A proposed 5% raise in Coast Guard discretionary funding in fiscal 2026 hangs in the balance amid a congressional fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Last week, the House passed the ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Facing opposition from key Republican senators, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait instead has taken a job with AmeriCorps in Washington.

Former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to hike tariffs on goods from South Korea to 25%, citing what he said was the failure of the country’s legislature to codify the trade deal the two nations reached last year.

Trump in a...Read more

WASHINGTON — The killing of a second U.S. citizen by federal agents in Minneapolis is deeply complicating efforts to avert another government shutdown in Washington as Democrats — and some Republicans — view the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The fatal shooting in Minnesota over the weekend has stirred up two extreme I-words in Congress: impeachment and insurrection.

In response to an immigration enforcement agent shooting and killing a citizen,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate inched closer to triggering a partial government shutdown Monday as GOP leaders pushed forward with a $1.33 trillion funding package that includes a Homeland Security bill Democrats vowed to ...Read more