Once again, the president is questioning what purpose is served by publicly traded companies issuing quarterly earnings reports. Not only did Donald Trump raise this issue back in 2018 — so did Barack Obama in 2015.

Which just goes to show that the arguments against quarterly financial reports are neither crazy nor new. It was not until 1970 ...Read more

When people think about legacies, they often think about monuments, textbooks or days marked on a calendar. But a true legacy is measured in lives changed and conversations sparked. That’s why, when we think about Charlie Kirk, we don’t just think of a man who built organizations or packed auditoriums. We think of the way he taught ...Read more

I’ve never had cancer. But it has still shaped my entire life.

I’m a BRCA1 “previvor.” You may never have heard that term before; it was coined by an organization called FORCE over 25 years ago. I carry a gene mutation that increases my risk for breast and ovarian cancer and other kinds, and that’s why, even though I’m in my late ...Read more

In the days since Charlie Kirk’s killing, conservatives have embraced a phenomenon they previously called toxic: cancel culture.

The impulse to cancel some voices this past week is understandable: Celebrating murder is cruel. It’s gross. It’s wrong. But the irony is impossible to miss: Conservatives, who long treated cancel culture as an ...Read more

Susan Monarez, who only served 29 days as CDC director before being fired last month, performed a valuable civic function Wednesday in testifying under oath before a Senate committee that established that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a dire threat to public health. He is the one who must be fired and if President ...Read more

Was Charlie Kirk a martyr? Many on the right have declared him a martyr for freedom of speech, which is understandable, but they use his tragic death as if it were a final, irrefutable proof of their beliefs and a call to take radical action — ironically including suppressing free speech if it’s leftist.

Not to do what Kirk would want would...Read more

When President Donald Trump mustered a military parade in Washington in June, my mind flashed back to a video I once watched in a Rio de Janeiro museum. It featured a 1950s Brazilian dictator waving from an open automobile in his military procession.

Trump mercifully stayed on the reviewing stand. And Brazil’s current democracy has remained ...Read more

The most prevalent guessing game on social media is “Who killed Charlie Kirk?”

Not who fired the bullet that ended the conservative activist’s life last week. That was presumably settled with the surrender of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student acting on his expressed hatred of Kirk. Rather, who or what pushed the buttons that led the ...Read more

Last month, I wrote that California is backsliding on climate, and that it’s mostly Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fault. I took him and his appointees to task for undermining rooftop solar, propping up the Aliso Canyon gas field and slowing implementation of a single-use plastics recycling law, among other offenses.

So it’s only fair that I give ...Read more

President Donald Trump has been making anti-democratic moves since returning to the White House eight months ago, from attacking universities to law firms. Now, the president is using the horrible murder of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk as a pretext to ramp up his authoritarian efforts, openly boasting of the coming crackdown.

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It appears that President Donald Trump has signaled a total disdain for the Latino community, the country’s largest minority group at 68 million, or 1 of every 5 residents.

This observation is not based totally on Trump’s remarks a decade ago that Mexico “does not send its best” and that immigrants from our southern border are “...Read more

Sweating inside your apartment as the temperature climbs is becoming ever more common in Los Angeles and, as extreme heat keeps intensifying, more dangerous. Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that will require landlords to ensure the ability to maintain a temperature of 82 degrees or below in all ...Read more

Here is something all Americans can agree on, whatever their feelings on immigration enforcement: United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement should not be harassing, let alone detaining, citizens of the United States.

Nor should that agency be harassing, let alone detaining, green card holders, officially known as lawful permanent ...Read more

The war against Black women is heating up.

President Donald Trump says he wants to keep the United States out of the wars raging overseas. So, he has humiliated Ukraine, catered to Russia and kowtowed to Israel, while eschewing U.S. involvement in their brutal conflicts.

Yet, Trump is waging his own homegrown wars. In addition to targeting ...Read more

We should be capable of mourning conservative activist Charlie Kirk without diminishing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman.

It is deeply upsetting in a state grieving not one but two horrific tragedies this summer that influential Fox News host Greg Gutfeld cast decency aside this week with a televised, profanity-laced rant ...Read more

Remember the vaunted Trump-Putin summit? It was just a month ago this week, but Americans could be excused for having forgotten. Nothing good has come of it. The cringy Alaska photo-op for the American and Russian presidents certainly didn't yield President Trump's long-promised deal to end Vladimir Putin's criminal war on Ukraine.

In fact, as ...Read more

I first became familiar with Charlie Kirk as a college student in March 2023, when he visited my university as part of his “Live Free Tour.” His visit was sponsored by my school’s chapter of Turning Point USA, the conservative youth advocacy group co-founded by Kirk and Bill Montgomery in 2012.

At the University of California, Santa ...Read more

There were a couple of especially dramatic moments in Wednesday's Senate Health Committee hearing delving into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s firing of the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the subsequent resignations of three top CDC officials.

Interestingly, both were generated by the committee chair, Sen. Bill Cassidy, ...Read more

President Donald Trump is not as popular as he claims. But neither is he as unpopular as his opponents might like to think.

That’s the simple explanation. Dig under the hood, however, and things get complicated.

I’m constantly asked to assess Trump’s political standing; it’s among the more consistent questions posed to professional ...Read more

There's some good news related to the Trump administration's concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn't appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries' bank accounts are still arriving on time.

Beyond that, however, the system is going ...Read more