April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump’s partial — and possibly temporary — retreat from the most radical version of his trade agenda sent the stock markets soaring. But it’s important to remember that prior to Trump’s inauguration, the tariff regime we are currently under was widely considered the worst-case scenario. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
With the death of a second child from measles and cases in the U.S. surging past 600, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, finally stated the obvious: Vaccination is the best way to prevent the spread of the disease. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
It’s high time commentators stopped trying to shoehorn the American polity into a paradigm that doesn’t fit. President Donald Trump’s brand of government is as new and unique as it is volatile and disturbing. Sometimes, history neither repeats nor rhymes. Sometimes, a whole new species bursts onto the scene. Read story
April 14, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Not yet three months into a second term, President Donald Trump has taken difficult, but necessary, actions to rein in the scope of a federal government on a fiscally unsustainable path. He is also working with Republicans in Congress to extend his 2017 tax cut bill, allowing Americans to keep… Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
What do you do when the economy is going to hell, 401(k)s are going down the toilet and we’re bracing for higher prices on nearly everything? Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump isn’t the first, but his may be the worst. It’s an oft-repeated pattern in American presidential politics: the reelected president who seeks to extend his electoral mandate — and fails dramatically. Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Venezuelan immigrants accused of belonging to a gang and slated for deportation by the Trump administration have the right to a judicial hearing before they can be sent out of the country. Read story
April 12, 2025, 6:01am Columns
As a descendant of German immigrants, from college on I devoured histories of the rise of fascism to grasp how the cultured and educated democracy of my great-grandparents could succumb so tragically. I never got it; I had an American’s complacency that made Germans’ complicity incomprehensible. Decades later, I do… Read story
April 11, 2025, 6:01am Columns
On Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump sent his thugs to the U.S. Capitol where they proceeded to smash up “the people’s house.” Read story
April 10, 2025, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump likes superlatives. He often asserts that everything — the economy, the military, his ratings — is better, bigger and stronger than ever before. Everything is at levels no one’s ever seen. That’s what everyone is saying. Read story
