The Potomac River flows between Virginia and Maryland and for a few miles Washington, D.C. I have fond memories from my youth when I swam and canoed in the Potomac. So I was disturbed and …

A core role of the U.S. Department of Justice is to protect people from abuse by giant corporations. But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twisted that mission backwards — using the agency to …

In seeking never to repeat the horrors of 9/11, Congress took the step to merge relevant civilian operations – customs, immigration, airports, nonmilitary national security and intelligence. …

The journey of my prayer rug reflects my own as a Muslim American. It has seen a lot, and despite its fraying fringes, remains resilient as ever. Praying five times each day is one of the …

Signals that Donald Trump is losing his grip flash across our screens nearly every hour, but what arrived just the other day was new, different and historically significant. The moment occurred at a …

In its program-slashing, 2027 Department of Agriculture budget plan, the White House hoped to head off sure-to-come complaints by tying spending cuts to that handy whipping boy, big bad government. …

President Donald Trump took over the TV to tell the world that he intends to bomb Iran back into the Stone Age. God Bless America. And YABADABADOO! I had been thinking that I might be …

It appears that folks living in the gently rolling farmland of southwestern Ohio don’t want a 2-million-square-foot data center plopped down the road from their front porches. What’s wrong with …

President Donald Trump has systematically broken virtually every promise made on the campaign trail to court health-focused voters. His most recent walk-backs on pesticide reform are a cruel …

Nobody loves a war like “Pistol” Pete Hegseth. Dependably giddy and drunk on American military might, Donald Trump’s feckless Secretary of War (Defense) is the star of nearly every major press …

Trust a psychotic career criminal with the world’s strongest military and it’s no surprise that he’ll use it in the worst way. The Con-mander in Chief took time out from his primary …

Given the increasing dominance of right-wing politics by arrogant, super-rich Tech Bros, here’s a question about wealth inequality for your barroom philosophers to ponder: Does one have to be born …

By DON ROLLINS

In 1988, I was one of only two White elected Democratic officials in all of America to endorse Jesse Jackson to be our party’s nominee for president. The other was Bernie Sanders, then the mayor of …

I haven’t seen it. I hope you don’t, either. nnThis, from one of the kinder reviews: “Across some 104 minutes, the first lady delivers these blatantly scripted and meaningless narrations …

California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent 2025 setting himself up as Donald Trump’s leading opponent and the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential nominee. While the Trump-Newsom rivalry has …

Trump Tower. Trump Steaks. Trump University. Trump Watches. Trump cologne, candles, coins, robes, ornaments, towels, pens, gerbils, and gold-tipped suppositories. It’s hard to think of anything …

America’s economic system has never been fair or perfect, but for more than a century it rested on basic guardrails that kept instability in check and allowed us to fight for progress and win. …

In 1998, former Venezuelan military officer Hugo Chavez stunned the world when he was elected president of Venezuela without the endorsement of the United States. Chavez ran on an anti-poverty …

Remember Davos. Here’s a hope and a prayer, offered up to moderate Republicans: Remember the anguish. Store that sick feeling of watching the stock market crater, knowing the losses were harming …