Our country’s present obscures its future
Opinion, Politics
April 1, 2026
The future is another country, glimpsed only faintly in the distance, its contours difficult to discern, its political landscape hard to imagine — especially at a time when the nation is consumed with...
Politics
March 30, 2026
By SAM McNEIL and GIADA ZAMPANO Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is expanding its powers to track, raid and deport migrants to “return hubs" in third countries in Africa and elsewhe...
Politics
March 30, 2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — For several hours Friday, in the stillness before dawn, the Senate appeared to have finally figured out how to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security before it faced the lo...
Team Trump had to start a war to learn how the global economy works
Opinion, Politics
March 28, 2026
E arly Monday morning, financial markets surged when President Donald Trump claimed there had been productive talks with Iran about ending the war. Therefore he backed off a vow to bomb Iranian power ...
Opinion, Politics
March 27, 2026
By LISA MASCARO AND KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure is mounting on Congress to end the funding shutdown that has resulted in travel disruptions, missed paychecks and even war...
Telling truths about war
Opinion, Politics
March 27, 2026
“Aprimary purpose of the First Amendment is to enable the press to publish what it will and the public to read what it chooses, free of any official proscription,” wrote Federal District Judge Paul L....
Trump needs a short war
Opinion, Politics
March 26, 2026
How many times has President Trump said that the war in Iran, now entering its fourth week, will be brief? Many. I asked Grok for 20 examples of Trump promising a short war, and got a list very quickl...
Hope may be all Trump has left
Opinion, Politics
March 25, 2026
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Suddenly Donald Trump, who arguably has some mastery of the business arts, is in defiance of one of the fundamental principles of his trade: Hope is not a strategy. We’re not talkin...
Kim vows to ‘irreversibly’ cement North Korea’s nuclear status
Politics
By By KIM TONG-HYUNG Associated Press 
March 25, 2026
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to irreversibly cement his country’s status as a nuclear power while maintaining a hard-line stance toward South Korea, which he c...
Our new ungracious immigrants
Opinion, Politics
March 24, 2026
Silicon Valley was energized by legal immigrants from all over the world who founded eBay, Google, Nvidia, SpaceX, Stripe, Sun Microsystems, Tesla, Yahoo, and a host of others. The Greek American Elia...