President Donald Trump is coming at climate policy with the ferocity of a wildfire.  He has ridiculed regulations on carbon emissions and gutted agencies designed to carry them out.  His Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Lee…

With the aid of a supermajority in both houses of the Kansas Legislature, Republican lawmakers are a step closer to achieving their dream of politicizing the Kansas Supreme Court. That’s what will happen if voters…

Not so long ago, helping refugees get settled was largely uncontroversial.  Since World War II, the United States has distinguished between immigrants, who choose to leave their country, and refugees, who are forced to.  In…

They talked by phone for over two hours, but Vladimir Putin left Donald Trump with almost nothing to show for it — a slap in the face that only a man possessed of unbounded chutzpah…

It is jaw-dropping that senior Trump administration figures would accidentally leak war plans to a journalist.  But the fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging…

The news that a U.S. journalist was inadvertently included in a top secret U.S. military chat group should have citizens anxious about how the Trump administration handles its affairs. In mid-March, Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of…

Donald Trump won the White House not with money, though he spent plenty of it, but by dominating the conversation. He hasn’t stopped campaigning. He uses attention to bolster his political power, and uses his…

It’s been five years since the world came to a sudden halt. Outbreaks of a deadly coronavirus — first in China, then in Italy and Iran, and then seemingly everywhere at once — prompted the…

The beginning of talks aimed at some sort of end to conflict, we dare not say peace, between Ukraine and Russia is cause of great concern for those of us who have urged the U.S.…

Benedict Arnold’s plan to undermine his country’s fight for independence against the British was to weaken its defenses at West Point, N.Y., a major port. Arnold’s deceit was discovered when his British intelligence contact was…