I confess that I had no intention of reading "Careless People," the tell-all memoir from former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams. I figured I knew all I needed to know about the company's history and its leader, Mark Zuckerberg, from following it for the better part of a decade.

But then Zuckerberg, whose company changed its name to Meta ...Read more

We’ve all witnessed it. The Thanksgiving table and other family gatherings turned terribly wrong. “Don’t talk about politics.” Maybe our parents told us that.

Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost the ability to have discourse over political issues with our neighbors, and even our family. We’ve all felt the divide. It’s not just a ...Read more

Welcome to Florida. Where Sunshine needs lobbyists and lawyers, and the state motto could just as well be “nothing to see here.” Where elected officials shamelessly reject attempts to let the people who voted for them know what they are up to. Where government bureaucrats seem increasingly inclined to simply ignore the law, particularly in ...Read more

Mayor Michelle Wu launched her long-delayed re-election campaign kickoff in a State of the City speech that opponent Josh Kraft could not compete against, taking a strong swipe at President Donald Trump and Republican “bullies” for criticizing Boston’s sanctuary city status.

“This is our city. No one tells Boston how to take care of our...Read more

Truth matters. You wouldn’t know that from watching the president address Congress earlier this month. The assault on truth since January has been breathtaking.

The removal of data from government websites, the elevation of science deniers to positions in charge of scientific policy, and the advancement of health policy that flies in the ...Read more

“We were at our richest from 1870 to 1913. That's when we were a tariff country,” said President Donald Trump recently, and he’s not wrong. But tariffs aren’t the whole story. The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition.

That economy boomed. From 1870 to 1913, America’s GDP grew at nearly 5 percent per ...Read more

With Trump’s return to the White House, we once again bear daily witness to a spectacle that could be described as entertaining, were it only a TV series. But Trump’s unprecedented assault on our democratic norms and institutions is not only very real but represents the gravest peril our democratic republic has confronted in the last 80 ...Read more

The California Legislature — particularly its Democrats — will face a political litmus test next week that will reveal how serious they are about respecting the will of voters who overwhelmingly passed Proposition 36 last November, the initiative that strengthened penalties for some theft and drug crimes.

There was no funding mechanism for ...Read more

The Department of Government Efficiency’s path of destruction through the federal government leaves little doubt that Elon Musk and his hand-selected staff have no idea what the federal agencies are intended to do for the citizens of the United States.

A leaked audio recording from the acting commissioner of Social Security Leland Dudek ...Read more

To grasp the aberration of U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, consider an abbreviated history of America’s shifting attitudes toward just one country, Canada. And start with Ronald Reagan, who stood for the original and genuine version of “peace through strength.”

When signing a free-trade agreement with Canada in 1988, ...Read more

U.S. health agency leadership and policymakers seem intent on undermining trust in mRNA, the technology that saved millions of lives during the COVID pandemic and has shown promise in addressing a range of infectious diseases and even cancer.

One troubling sign of the trend came when, according to KFF reporting, National Institutes of Health ...Read more

Women’s History Month began as a way to honor women’s contributions throughout time. It was meant to commemorate their “firsts” and perhaps more importantly, to inspire future generations of ladies to achieve greatness.

Unfortunately, that second objective is in danger. If politicians and businesses continue to abandon diversity, equity...Read more

Congress is cowed; that's one supposedly coequal branch of government down. But federal courts are proving more resistant to Donald Trump's trampling of laws and the Constitution. Now, just two months in office, the president has all but crossed the red line — defying a judge's order — that for more than two centuries has separated the rule ...Read more

In feudal times, it was expected that vassals would kiss the ring of the lord of the manor to show loyalty and subservience to his power, to make it clear that they understood they belonged to him. I had thought those times were long gone, but apparently, they are with us again.

Across America, politicians, businesspeople and media tycoons are ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s silencing of the Voice of America serves him two ways: Attacking the press and doing a favor for dictators around the world he so admires.

Since World War II, people worldwide have relied on the Voice of America for not only information about the United States but the world, as a news organization that has taken great...Read more

When we moved to a small town several years ago, I was delighted to find that families of ducks and geese lived on the local pond and that a mom-and-pop shop across the street sold little paper bags full of food for them. It felt like something out of a storybook, until the store closed.

People started tossing the birds bread instead, but ...Read more

FRANKLIN MOUNTAINS, Texas — Two big rams bolted from the steel trailer, took a few hesitant steps and glanced around nervously at their new home: dramatic mountains in west Texas more than 200 miles from where they grew up. Within seconds of looking in all directions, they scrambled into the crevices of peaks that reach 7,000 feet above sea ...Read more

Almost 30 years ago, toward the end of President Bill Clinton’s first term in office, Republicans in Congress forced a government shutdown that led some 800,000 nonessential federal workers to be furloughed. At the time, I was the director of the Voice of America, and VOA was broadcasting in more than 45 languages reaching more than 200 ...Read more

The fight in Federal Judge James Boasberg’s D.C. courtroom over whether President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to summarily fly Venezuelan immigrants to a Salvadoran mega-prison without trial or charge is a fight over the strength of our constitutional system. The phrase constitutional crisis has been getting a lot of air...Read more

Public-sector unions have long supported American workers, championing fair wages, reasonable hours and safe working conditions.

While recent challenges — like Utah’s repeal of collective bargaining rights for government employees — may seem daunting, they also present an opportunity for us to unite, educate the public and strengthen our...Read more