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,” which would shift government support away from subsidizing insurance coverage toward putting money directly into accounts ...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 see it shut down.

The bill became law with President Joe Biden’s signature and survived a Supreme Court challenge. But ...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 segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.

Terms like “hate speech” and “ racism�...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’s not life or death, it isn’t pure ego either. With layoffs in the U.S. now reaching their highest levels since COVID-19...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 care is paid for or delivered.

That outcome was not surprising. American medicine is extraordinarily resistant to change. ...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?

Some celebrate Nicolás Maduro’s removal simply because he was a brutal dictator. They’re largely indifferent to the ...Read more

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 EPA to defend lax regulations on toxic emissions but harder to make America healthy again. More people will get sick and die, ...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 nonsense phrase so beloved by every human between the ages of 5 and 15 — including my own kids laughing uproariously as they ...Read more

On Saturday morning, Border Patrol agents fatally shot Alex Pretti on a busy Minneapolis street. The Trump administration wasted no time in doing a bit of preemptive inoculation.

In a post on X Saturday, Vice President JD Vance claimed that “far left agitators, working with local officials,” had “engineered chaos” in Minneapolis. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In recent weeks my 80-year-old Asian American parents have started to carry their passports each time they leave their suburban townhouse. Neighbors on their Ring doorbell app will alert users when ICE agents are spotted on nearby roads. My mom has canceled appointments after receiving such warnings. A practical woman, she says ...Read more

When he's not busy slathering the White House in gold or recklessly sundering foreign alliances, President Donald Trump loves to talk about voter fraud.

Although the incidence is rare — like, spotting-a-pangolin-in-the-wild rare — Trump persistently emits a gaseous cloud of false claims. About rigged voting machines, dead people casting ...Read more

How do you know what you know?

Did you learn it in school, read it in a newspaper? Did you get your information on social media or though chatter with friends?

Even in an age of misinformation and disinformation — which we really need to start clearly calling propaganda — we continue to rely on old ways of knowing. We take it for granted ...Read more

President Donald Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from bot accounts on X.

Then there's Bill Essayli. When it comes to saying anything to please a president with autocratic dreams, the former Assembly member is a bootlicking ...Read more

Where can one go to hear the moral sanity that counters the grudgeful actions of the American president? Where can we hear the voice of compassion and empathy as immigration agents ignore the most basic rights of Americans and demonstrate the heavy hand of authoritarian government in action? Who would have guessed it would come from a former ...Read more

In the wake of the fatal shooting of a Minnesota mother by an immigration agent this month, House Democrats have filed articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

These lawmakers are on the right track, but they need not have waited so long. Throughout her year at the Department of Homeland Security, Noem has shown ...Read more

The pandemic may seem like ages ago, but the financial fallout continues. In December, a Nevada legislative committee learned that the state still hasn’t burned through a quarter of the federal money it received from Congress during COVID. Washington plans to claw back any funds that aren’t spent by the end of this year.

The presentation to...Read more

A decade ago, bootcamp workouts had little to do with appearance or chasing personal records. For me, they meant survival. They offered a way to manage stress, process grief, and stay upright beneath the weight of vocation and responsibility.

Pastoral leadership, specifically during the time of “parachute church-planting,” often convinces ...Read more

Is the headlong rush toward wearing ever more relaxed clothing over? That question has preoccupied investors since analysts at Bank of America Corp. called time on the sneaker boom this month.

The answer is yes. Evidence from catwalks, social media, retailers and sales data shows we’re wearing more sophisticated clothing and footwear again. ...Read more

There is a natural human tendency to assume that your generation has it harder than everyone else. Even by those standards, however, baby boomers (and some older millennials) are on the receiving end of an extraordinary amount of resentment. You could fill a good-sized library with all the books devoted to boomer-hate.

Much of the blame heaped ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — They consider taxation to be theft, oppose gun regulations and want to dismantle the welfare state. But they’re also royally pissed off about the federal operation in the Twin Cities.

Meet the libertarians.

The bastions of smaller government and individual freedom have planted their “Don’t Tread On Me” flag in the ...Read more