The prospect of mountains of milo rotting on port docks has moved a handful of “Sorghum Belt” members of Congress to see if they can get their colleagues to care. The grain, interchangeably known as…

In the Pentagon they must surely be on high alert. On Sunday, Feb. 9 President Donald Trump declared that it would soon become the target for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Accusing it…

Hours after President Donald Trump called for a society that is “merit-based” in his inaugural address, he fired the first woman to head a military service in American history. Four-star Coast Guard Adm. Linda Fagan…

President Trump gave the economy another jolt of uncertainty on Monday when he signed executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. His advisers say these tariffs are economically “strategic” rather than…

It’s getting painfully expensive to eat. We realize that’s not a news flash, but it’s what’s on Americans’ minds. No wonder. Among the necessities of life, food — sustenance — is close to the top.…

Don’t get distracted. Don’t get overwhelmed.  Don’t get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and his allies are purposely creating with the volume and speed of executive orders; the effort to dismantle the…

President Trump and Elon Musk might be able to ignore the squawking of Democrats in Congress and the press, but they can’t ignore the courts.  Two judges weighed in Thursday to temporarily hold up the…

Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the Oval Office have featured plenty of jaw-dropping moments. Even so, his proposal of an American “takeover” of Gaza on Feb. 4 was extraordinary.  He combined sinister ideas —…

The avian flu pandemic ravaging poultry farms across the country, raising the price of eggs and wings is an act of nature, but the human response to it reveals the value of a non-political group…

Donald Trump is provoking a U.S. constitutional crisis, claiming sweeping powers to override or bypass Congress’s control over spending in a brazen attempt to centralize financial power in the executive branch.  If he succeeds, Nobel…