So many people I know — including, I suspect, many of you — are despairing over Donald Trump’s second regime, which started Jan. 20. I share your fears about what’s to come. Yet I …

In his zeal to wrest Greenland from Denmark, President Trump has resurrected Manifest Destiny. Ages ago we grew our footprint, seizing Texas from Texas, much of the Southwest from Mexico, as well as …

“Today, I will sign a series of executive orders. With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense,” — Donald Trump, Inauguration 2025 …

Awareness of eco-social conditions in the United States is growing as the Los Angeles wildfires spread death and destruction. This disaster, for example, comes on the heels of Hurricane Helene that …

Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …

Science tells us that our skin becomes thinner as we age. The ever irascible 78 year-old skinflint Trump has been demonstrating just how much thinner his skin has become. “I want him …

Donald Trump won the whole Monopoly game. He never went directly to jail and always passed go. Timid Merrick Garland, the attorney general, was no match, and didn’t even buy a railroad. The Big …

There have been many political cartoonists – the political cartoonist was as much a staple of newspapers as the crossword puzzle. Thomas Nast is considered the “Father of the American Cartoon,” …

SOMEWHERE IN DIXIELAND – Six inches of snow covers Audubon Park in New Orleans, something no one alive has ever seen. The Santa Ana winds are still whipping up the uncontrollable wildfires around …

Thomas Piketty’s “Nature, Culture and Inequality,” weighing in at a slim 82 pages, packs quite a wallop for its size. Originally presented as a series of lectures, this “comparative and …

In recent weeks we’ve seen a new breed of first responders when disaster hits. Not the fire department. Not the EMTs. Not the cops. No, even faster are politicians misrepresenting facts and …

The last time Americans faced the possible spread of Ebola to U.S. territory, in 2014, Donald Trump irresponsibly stoked public fears and barked at Barack Obama while doing nothing useful to protect us. By Joe Conason

By Frank Lingo -- In case we thought the climate crisis wasn’t going to affect our personal lives, here’s a news flash. No one wants to learn their home’s value is dropping but First Street …

By Art Cullen - If you really wanted to clear out undocumented immigrants fast and send a ringing message, you would start around Omaha and Sioux City. They have thousands upon thousands of paperless Latinos waiting…

By Karen Dolan - Trump’s attempt to freeze federal funds for government services was an effort to steal our tax dollars to enrich billionaires. And he’ll try again.

Corporate chieftains are giants, even geniuses -- right? Years ago, laissez-faire ideologue Ayn Rand hailed them as society's supermen, comparing them to Atlas, the mythological Greek god who …

People are talking about Iowa’s alarming cancer rates, but they need to turn up the volume. “We have to start getting loud with our elected officials about doing something about it,” Iowa …

Ann Arbor – The wars in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo made 2024 a hard year to bear for anyone following them, and unfortunately it was all too …

Elon Musk's aggressive defense of the H-1B visa program — which permits his companies Tesla and SpaceX to bring engineers and other workers from overseas — has aroused fury among his erstwhile …

The same day the media reported the death of Jimmy Carter, a federal appeals court upheld a jury’s decision that Donald Trump had sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in a New York City department …