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Reader, who are the people who have stood up to President Donald Trump and confronted him, face to his furious face? Answer: Women, and only women, have done so publicly. Running for …
The political movement President Donald Trump leads, called Make America Great Again, broke with traditional Republican foreign policy as the public has known it for some time. Unlike the Reagan …
Ann Arbor – Pope Leo XIV flew from Turkiye to Lebanon on Nov. 30, and surprised the press corps flying with him by making some comments to them. His predecessor, Pope Francis, had been …
Forbes magazine recently warned, “An AI boom is catapulting markets and raising fears a bubble is near. Gary Smith, an economics professor at Pomona College and author, has warned about an …
On June 13, 1930, nearly a year into the Great Depression, Republican President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act into law, capping the most protectionist era in American commercial …
US Sen. Rick Scott, former CEO of the company that was at the center of the biggest Medicare fraud scheme in American history, has emerged as the most vocal Republican proponent of healthcare reform, …
Oct. 21, 2025, will be lodged as a defining day in North Carolina history. On that fated Tuesday, Sen. Michael Garrett, a four-term Democrat representing Guilford County, gave what, in my view, was …
They’re gone? Really gone? With the abrupt end of President Donald Trump’s invasion of Chicago with U.S. Border Patrol agents, can this be the end of the crime crisis that President …
The shooting of two National Guard members by a gunman identified by the authorities as an Afghan national was horrific. But Donald Trump’s response has been disproportionate and bigoted. …
Thousands of baristas at nearly 100 Starbucks locations were on strike during the holiday season, picketing outside the iconic cafes for a contract. While the corporate coffee chain has claimed …
The Nov. 26 South Park episode nailed it: When “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town’s annual holiday race, he declares it an “Antifa …
One of the greatest gifts Donald Trump and the 13 billionaires he pulled into his administration have given America is the reminder, finally and once and for all, that just because somebody is rich …
In defense of President Donald Trump, most of us know scant details about the life of George Washington. Yet that didn’t stop him from invoking our first president to call for the death penalty …
If you want to understand how the Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has undermined democracy, you need to understand the “shadow docket.” The shadow docket — as the …
OXFORD, Miss. — From the Knights of Labor’s founding in 1869 to its convention in Richmond, Virginia, in 1886, the local press and political leadership condemned it for opening its doors …
Donald Trump’s long history of denigrating women was on full display recently. nnOn Air Force One, Trump pointed his finger at young female reporter Catherine Lucey’s face and snapped, …
The immense irony about what this president has done with the economy is that only the Supreme Court can save him — from himself. He says a ruling by the Supremes against his willy-nilly, …
Police “sweeps” of homeless encampments aren’t what you think — they’re much worse. I know, because I’ve been a victim of one. The Supreme Court ruled last …
By publicly commanding the Justice Department to investigate the “involvement and relationship” of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with former President Bill Clinton and various …
To truly experience the Trump tariff rollercoaster, hop on the ear-popping ride American cattlemen, meatpackers, and U.S. beef eaters have been on over the past few months. In mid-August, the …