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Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, was a solemn anniversary for Congress, five years to the day since a mob of President Donald Trump's followers broke into the Capitol and savagely battled the police officers defending us, those trapped inside.

I should say it was solemn and healing for the Democratic members of the House and Senate, who honored the ...Read more

There's greed ... and then there's the nauseating greed of profiteering corporations that make a killing -- literally -- by knowingly contaminating people's water, air, land and families.

Such rank moral corruption is hard to fathom, but it's not hard to find. For one breathtaking example, consider Freeport-McMoRan.

This global mining ...Read more

Five years to the week since the extremism-fueled, extremist-led Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol and with plentiful documentation of the metastasizing threat from extremism from both Right and Left, Farah Pandith could be forgiven for feeling that her life's work combating hate is hopeless.

She doesn't.

The Kashmiri-born veteran ...Read more

The year opened with what could be one of the most horrifying videos of 2026. At 1:30 a.m. in a basement bar at a Swiss ski resort, flames started dancing on the ceiling. Instead of rushing upstairs to flee the room, many celebrants lifted their cellphones toward the blaze, eager to record the thrilling moment to share with friends worldwide. ...Read more

As jazz music, which began in Black communities, spread across the nation in the 1920s, more than 60 cities adopted rules limiting or outright banning it in dance halls. Clergy and civic reformers claimed its rhythms promoted sexual freedom and interracial dancing among the youth.

Jazz was just the beginning. In the 1950s, the government set ...Read more

On Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library announced the death of the late President's 35-year-old granddaughter. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts." Just weeks before, she had published an article in The New Yorker about her battle with leukemia that followed the birth ...Read more

There is, at this writing, a better-than-even chance that Democrats will recapture the House of Representatives. They also have a shot at the Senate. If either or both happens, Democrats will declare victory. That's fair.

They will claim a mandate. They will describe their win as vindication of their candidates and their ideas. Unfair. And ...Read more

I don't make New Year's resolutions, but I do set goals. I take time to reflect on the previous year to look at what I'd like to build upon, what I'd like to scrap and what could use a tweaking in the new year. My husband does something similar.

This year, instead of just setting individual goals I thought we could make family goals, too. It ...Read more

No matter how terrible a thing you do, if you do it over and over again, a pattern will emerge.

So, the serial killer picks up young prostitutes, strangles them in his car and dumps them on the side of gravel roads. He does this while thinking of his mother.

The United States of America cheers and slogans its way into continuous wars in lonely...Read more

Every year, for as long as I can remember, I would resolve to lose weight. 125 pounds it said on my driver's license, even though it wasn't accurate at the time I wrote it down. It was my goal, every year, to get there by my birthday, which is in mid-December. And every year, I would fail, berate myself and then vow to lose the weight in the ...Read more

We've been writing this weekly column for close to 20 years. This one will be our last syndicated by King Features. We have aspired to stay true to this column's original intent, to "break the sound barrier," highlighting voices excluded from the corporate media, covering the movements that drive change, and holding to account those in power, ...Read more

Scene: the Midwest in midcentury.

The Madison, Wisconsin, neighborhood lived through the 1930s and 1940s, depression, wartime and polio. President Franklin Roosevelt's radio fireside chats built morale.

My father's mother, Marie, a widowed nurse with four children, never missed Eleanor Roosevelt's column, "My Day." Her husband, Reuben, a ...Read more

As we head into a momentous election year, with state and national legislative seats up for grabs, even let-them-eat-cake Republicans are scrambling to sound sympathetic to today's hard-hit working-class families.

Of course, tongue-clucking concern doesn't mean actually doing anything to help this majority of Americans -- and most ...Read more

A midterm election year is upon us, and that can mean only one thing: we have entered the realm of quickened speculation about the 2028 presidential election. On the Republican side, if President Donald Trump decides to abide by the Constitution in at least one respect, the nomination looks to be Vice President J.D. Vance's to lose. Which leaves...Read more

For anyone aiming to cut back drinking, January's arrival times perfectly. Some may have simply overdone it through the long holiday stretch, when alcohol seemed piped into any vaguely celebratory event. Some may worry that they're beginning to forget the last drink they accepted.

Recovering alcoholics or others who don't drink at all have it...Read more

Through the '60s, when I was a single-digit child, people knew that revolution was hard. Those who committed to revolutionary change understood that the elites who control the levers of power, institutional inertia and the broken spirits of those they sought to emancipate comprised barriers that were nearly impossible to overcome. They knew that...Read more

I've always loved a real Christmas tree but struggled with the idea of cutting down trees just to decorate them inside my home for a few weeks a year. Trees are living things and to grow them just to cut them for my enjoyment is something I had trouble reconciling within myself. According to the National Christmas Tree Association, there are ...Read more