February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
If there was one lesson to be learned from Bush v. Gore and its impact on the Supreme Court’s credibility, it is that the court should not decide presidential elections. That job belongs to the people: in the case of Donald Trump, to voters and juries. What that means in… Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Tonight, like every other night, too many of our neighbors will sleep in a tent, a car, a shelter, or on a sidewalk. Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Given that Donald Trump talks trash about a range of issues, it’s tempting to discount the rant in which he suggested that as president he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies who were “delinquent” in their financial obligations. Read story
February 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As cautionary tales go, Raymond Santana’s is about as unsettling as they get. Read story
February 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As the saying goes, you can find statistics to back up almost anything. But in the quest to improve student outcomes, research on early-childhood education is consistent as a heartbeat: The best way to improve academic achievement in older students is by making sure they start kindergarten knowing some basics… Read story
February 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Lately in this year of 2024, things have gone kaboom for super-ambitious Joe Biden even though it was just a few years ago in his virtual half-century in politics that he was elected president. It was at least partly because he and his multiple faults hid out in a basement… Read story
February 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Her blank face in court spoke volumes. Jennifer Crumbley saw no problem handing her severely depressed 15-year-old a semiautomatic handgun as a Christmas present. Ethan soon after turned the gun on the student body of Oxford High School in Michigan, killing four. Read story
February 16, 2024, 6:03am Columns
From the oral argument at the Supreme Court this month, it’s pretty clear that the justices are going to overturn the Colorado ruling that blocked Donald Trump from the state’s presidential ballot. Read story
February 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Last week, smack in the middle of a series of congressional meltdowns over border security, the Congressional Budget Office dropped the latest edition of its 10-year budget and economic forecast. It’s the kind of report that ought to — but won’t — shake up the immigration debate on Capitol Hill. Read story
February 14, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Sure, special counsel Robert Hur absolved President Joe Biden of any criminality in retaining classified documents after his vice presidency. But was the Republican lawyer nonetheless angling for a federal judgeship from a future Republican president — say, from a reelected and grateful Donald Trump — with the investigatory report… Read story
