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There is no facet of American life that President Donald Trump hasn’t touched in the past year. That includes the art world – even when Trump isn’t...
Iran’s latest protest wave did not begin as a grand ideological crusade. It began the way breakdowns often do, with daily life becoming unlivable....
For a small town located on Florida's interior, Fellsmere is packed with history. The city of 5,000, about 100 miles southeast of Orlando and 150...
To all the federal agents who make up U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection – you know, the ones out...
Donald Trump's second term as president has often seemed like a prolonged series of slapdash decisions that rarely demonstrated any serious...
If you wondered what it might be like to be in the middle of a blackout during an impending apocalypse, look no further than the events of Jan. 14....
The news that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is under investigation by the Department of Justice has sparked concern among many Americans,...
As I watch the firestorm continue to rage between Minnesota lawmakers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, I miss former President Barack Obama...
A famous section of Plato’s “Symposium,” in which the Greek playwright Aristophanes describes how humans were split by the gods and spend part of...
For decades, I carried anger and heartbreak about Iran so deep I thought it had become an unmovable part of me. Watching the current protests has...
Nobody told us. Our family was still celebrating the great accomplishment of our oldest daughter, Adaleia. She had made her middle-school track...
Heading into the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump seems intent on addressing the “affordability crisis” that he once claimed didn’t...
In what may surprise many Americans, 2025 ended with fewer mass killings ‒ defined as assaults resulting in four or more victim fatalities ‒ than...
Immigration enforcement in the United States has drifted away from its core purpose. What began as a public safety function – focused on serious...
Spoiler alert: This column contains spoilers for Apple TV's "Pluribus." I finally got the chance to finish Apple TV’s "Pluribus." Directed by Vince...
So President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has launched an investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for … you know … "reasons"...
There is a two-step, proven pattern to Donald Trump's weaponization of the Department of Justice in the first year of his second term as president:...
I've been thinking a lot about mortality lately. It's an uncomfortable fact that we are all dying. Some of us slowly, and some a lot faster. But...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 13 will hear two cases related to how far states can go to protect women’s and girls’ sports. It’s been a long time...
Another week, another series of tense interactions ahead between President Donald Trump's Department of Justice and the federal judges who keep...
Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot connected to X, has been making headlines for the recent “undressing” epidemic, in which users generate...
The U.S. raid that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro shocked and surprised the world – and produced a host of reactions, from...
Five Senate Republicans voted on Jan. 8 to force debate on a resolution curbing President Donald Trump’s use of force in Venezuela, marking a rare...
As of Jan. 5, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit created by the federal government to promote public broadcasting, is dissolved...
I have spent my career as a trauma surgeon running toward gunshot wounds, not away from them. I have also survived one myself. Prevention is how we...
Less than two weeks into 2026, President Donald Trump’s administration has killed a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis and launched an...