August 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In recent weeks, national Democrats and surrogates for Vice President Kamala Harris have settled on a pretty simple strategy: calling former President Donald Trump, his running mate Sen. JD Vance, and MAGA-aligned Republicans “weird.” One of its original purveyors, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, used it again during his first appearance… Read story
August 14, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As is the case with most primaries, last week’s election created far more losers than winners. Read story
August 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In the gilded, overwhelmingly ornate main room of his Mar-a-Lago resort and estate, former President Donald Trump stood in front of four huge American flags Thursday and pinballed through a press conference unlike anything ever seen in presidential campaigning. Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When it comes to disaster movies, my biggest pet peeve is the sex scene. As soon as a Diane Warren song starts playing in the background, the male and female leads will lock eyes and suddenly decide they have time to cuddle. “Saving the planet” loses all sense of urgency. Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
If you want to understand what’s happened to voting rights in the U.S. over the past decade, just take a look at a recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The experience of foster care can be deeply damaging to children. But so is leaving them with neglectful parents navigating addiction or struggling to maintain stable housing. Striking the balance that best promotes child safety is a fraught and complicated undertaking. Current outcomes show Washington is a long way from… Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
So you think it’s been a turbulent political summer, with President Joe Biden’s surprise decision not to run for reelection? Try 50 summers ago, with President Richard Nixon’s equally surprising decision to resign from office. Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As the daughter of a gun-owning, gun-control-supporting veteran and progressive social studies teacher whose calm, exasperatingly informed, “bulls—”-calling rebuttal of political speeches predated the recent media trend of “live fact-checking” by several decades, I find myself personally thrilled by Kamala Harris’ decision to select Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her… Read story
August 12, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When Italian boxer Angela Carini reported that she had “never felt a punch like that” after conceding to Algeria’s Imane Khelif 46 seconds after their Olympic match began, social media exploded with accusations. Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling chimed in, accusing Khelif of being a man posing as a woman… Read story
August 10, 2024, 6:02am Columns
In many ways, the Olympics reflect the best of America. Read story
