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"February was the wettest month in downtown Los Angeles since 1998. With over 12 inches of rain drenching the city, it was the fourth-wettest February -- and the seventh-wettest month overall -- in the city's nearly 150-year recorded history," said Judson Jones' report on Los Angeles' weather on March 2, 2024, in The New York Times. Just under...Read more

It's important in a democracy that the losing side grapple with its defeat and learn the right lessons for next time. A certain amount of reflection and self-criticism is healthy, but we've blown past that point and are in danger of over-interpreting the 2024 results. Despite headlines proclaiming the GOP won in a "rout" or declaring that "This ...Read more

In all the somber coverage of Jimmy Carter's death, the audience could and should expect the tone of kindness that wafts over wakes and funerals. Each president served as leader of our nation, shouldering a great burden over a large country with an ever-enlarging government.

But sometimes the tributes grow a little too treacly. CBS reporter ...Read more

The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps eternal battle between the experts and the masses has been shifting starkly, even wildly, with the former losing and the latter gaining clout.

That's been most visible in the series of announcements and selfies emanating from the gaudy precincts of Mar-a-Lago. The experts like ...Read more

In business, Donald Trump was a real-estate guy. In the presidency, he might be one, too.

The prospective foreign policy of his second term has taken an unexpected turn, with his recent talk of annexing Canada, buying Greenland and taking back the Panama Canal. Rather than the neo-isolationist that he's often accused of being, Trump is ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Embrace the chaos -- that's my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage.

If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in the international community, Tuesday you got your wake-up call.

During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump...Read more

When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies -- real or imagined -- they often had them or their colleagues arrested on pretextual charges and then brutally tortured until confessions were extracted. The confessions were then read aloud during so-called trials; and, of course, the defendant was convicted of whatever crime was the ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump's second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his.

Mr. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay. He defeated Democratic nominee Kamala Harris decisively ...Read more

The arrival of a new presidential administration invokes new beginnings and a break from the past. Still, realities from previous administrations remain, such as a fiscal challenge that demands immediate attention. It may weigh on the newcomers even more than they realize today. We can only hope they take it more seriously than their ...Read more

As President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration approaches, people in this country and throughout the rest of the world are celebrating. To those who voted for him (as well as those cheering for him abroad), his victory in the 2024 presidential election signifies a revolution by Americans who have long felt compromised, betrayed and sold out by...Read more

Donald Trump's media genius strikes again, this time calling national and international attention to two slowly developing but strategically treacherous threats to North America's military and economic security: 1) Russian and potentially Chinese military and commercial encroachment on the North American Arctic; and 2) an enemy physically and/...Read more

This week, in a stunning volte-face, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would now be revising its censorship policies to accord with his older vision of free speech. Specifically, Zuckerberg committed Facebook to revising a series of standards: reliance on left-wing fact-checkers will end, replaced by an X-like community notes system in ...Read more

An essay appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal under the headline "What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?"

Behavior that has always been understood to define what it means to be an adult is disappearing among America's younger generations.

Institutions always seen as the sinews that define and hold together a society -- ...Read more

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance -- primarily managed care -- will improve the nation's health and close the troubling disparities between the health of Black and white Americans. Former President Barack Obama made insurance coverage the signature issue of the ...Read more

Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video looks at a new documentary called "The Coddling of the American Mind." It persuasively suggests that today, young people are anxious and depressed because "adults" at their schools brainwashed them. Students like Lucy Kross Wallace at Stanford.

"I was...Read more

When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.

It was no contest. Reagan took 44 of the 50 states and won the popular vote by more than 8 million.

Why was Carter's reelection effort so disastrous?

Perhaps the most significant reason -- but not the only reason -- was ...Read more

Since Donald Trump won reelection, the fiercest Trump-bashers in the press have raged against any sign of media titans softening their approaches before the second term begins. Visits to Mar-a-Lago? Outrageous! Donating to Trump's inauguration? Unconscionable!

Then Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced his Meta sites would be abandoning ...Read more

The world is full of people who want you dead. It's an unpleasant and sometimes unavoidable truth.

Early on New Year's Day, a terrorist drove a white pickup through a celebratory crowd in New Orleans. As of this writing, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar murdered 14 people and injured 35. After he crashed, police officers heroically returned fire and ...Read more