Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the once-indicted and once-impeached attack dog for right-wing causes, is trying to use the courts to impose his state’s harsh abortion limits elsewhere with his specious state lawsuit against New Paltz Dr. Margaret Daley Carpenter for prescribing and sending abortion medications to a woman in Texas. He needs...Read more

A note to Europe’s leaders: When it comes to sending sufficient aid to help Ukraine end Russia’s invasion, if not now, when?

In October, I visited and wrote about a critical mine at Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, which had become the primary focus of Russia’s efforts to maximize the territory it holds amid looming economic pressures from ...Read more

After more than a century as a fixture on Main Streets across the country, one of Chicago’s signature companies is grabbing at a lifeline.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Walgreens Boots Alliance has engaged in talks to go private, which would end its nearly century-long run as a public company. The reported potential buyer is Sycamore ...Read more

Romania’s presidential election last month shocked the country and its government when Calin Georgescu, an obscure far-right candidate, secured the most votes in the first round.

Romania, an Eastern European country bordering Ukraine, has been a strong member of NATO for two decades and a member of the European Union for nearly as long. The ...Read more

FBI Director Chris Wray is resigning several years before the end of his statutory 10-year term for one, terrible reason: Donald Trump had promised to fire Wray when he’s sworn in as president next month and install the unqualified and unfit Kash Patel, a real disaster for justice.

With the exception of Trump, no president has ever fired an ...Read more

As President Joe Biden heads to the end of his time in the Oval Office, he is leaving with an act of compassion for those serving unnecessarily long federal prison sentences and who have perhaps been targeted by punitive laws that no longer fit in with our contemporary understandings of fairness and proportionality.

These grants of clemency ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee as the next director of the FBI, has big plans.

He has called for the prosecution of a long list of people he accuses of conspiring to undermine Trump, including President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and outgoing FBI Director ...Read more

When I first heard the phrase "rape culture" years ago, it sounded so dystopian that I wanted to believe it was an exaggeration.

But then came shocking revelations from all corners: the Catholic Church sex scandal, the Boy Scout sex scandal, the Fox News sex scandals, the Bill Cosby sex scandal and the numerous revelations of the #MeToo ...Read more

My MAGA friends keep telling me to just get over it. Election 2020 is history, they say. Donald Trump has been reelected, and we should, as J.D. Vance put it when pressed on the 2020 election during the vice presidential debate, focus on the future.

But the 2020 election is as much about the future as it is the past. It’s a mistake to just ...Read more

For almost 80 years, America’s nuclear arsenal has served as the ultimate guarantor of security for ourselves and our allies. But our missile systems are aging and are well past their programmed lifespan. Unless dramatic action is taken—and soon—it won’t be long before our adversaries can discount any threat from the U.S. nuclear arsenal...Read more

For many people, America has become a country where nothing works. And that is very bad for American democracy.

Daily life is filled with frustration, disappointed expectations and routine indignities. And that is very bad for American democracy.

For millions of Americans, it is hard to imagine a better future. And that is very bad for ...Read more

Donald Trump won Fresno County for the first time ever in the November election, and in fact the Republican president-elect made it a clean sweep of all the counties of the San Joaquin Valley.

But now California’s farm country faces a “be careful what you wish for” moment.

That is because the tariffs that Trump has said he wants to ...Read more

The resistance to Donald Trump has failed. He has now shaped American politics for nearly a decade, with four more years — at least — to go. A hard truth his opponents must accept: Trump is the most dominant American politician since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This dominance unsettles and destabilizes American democracy. Trump is a would-be...Read more

Thirty years ago this fall, California’s Latino voters coalesced into a multigenerational ethnic voting bloc for the first time in response to a draconian, citizen-led initiative targeting immigrants who were in the state illegally. Proposition 187 sought to deny most of the state’s taxpayer-funded services to undocumented immigrants.

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What Donald Trump wants most, once he becomes President 2.0, is to throw the book at all his perceived enemies who were – and may still be – embedded in the bowels of Official Washington.

So, no wonder Trump rushed to choose as his designated-thrower and new FBI director the man who wrote the book that names the names of Trump’s perceived...Read more

The politics surrounding Nippon Steel Corp.’s controversial bid for United States Steel Corp. evidently haven’t improved since November’s election. Here’s what else hasn’t improved: the tortured rationale for rejecting the deal.

Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that President Joe Biden plans to block the $14.1 billion acquisition later...Read more

Donald Trump knows that in politics, sometimes you can win by losing.

After making immigration reform a focus of his campaign, Trump, in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” promised to end birthright citizenship, calling the concept “ridiculous.” Perhaps the president-elect disfavors citizenship for people born in the U.S. as a ...Read more

The aerospace industry was relieved last year when the Federal Aviation Administration, the main regulator for all things that fly, finally got an administrator after an 18-month vacancy.

The choice, Michael Whitaker, was hailed as a true aviation expert. His resume portrayed a wide range of industry experience, including as an FAA deputy ...Read more