Dear editor, While reading what seems to me the outrageous reaction of congressional (and other) responses by Republicans to Donald Trump being convicted of financial missteps in a New York state court, I was reminded…

The 20-year-old college student and gamer I met in Cedar City, Utah, didn’t seem particularly amused by his own joke that he was a cultural cliché. He lived in his grandma’s basement, and barely left…

While not an outright victory, Friday was a pretty good day for voting rights advocates in Kansas. After three years of legal wrangling, their efforts were largely affirmed by the Kansas Supreme Court. The high…

In a village in the hills of Guerrero State, residents ran from their homes as drones flew overhead, dropping makeshift bombs. For months, drug cartel operatives had been deploying the commercial devices to drop explosives…

The result of Mexico’s presidential election, which was announced Sunday, is no surprise. Yet what happens next is still a cliffhanger. Claudia Sheinbaum will become the country’s next president but it is far from clear…

Pundits keep chirping about how voters want President Joe Biden to do something to bring prices down, particularly at the grocery store. Biden defenders claim that a president has few powers at their disposal to…

One of the gravest consequences of Donald Trump’s presidency and now his re-election campaign is its damage to the reputation of the U.S. justice system. After his conviction Thursday of covering up hush-money installments to…

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records in New York is an ignoble first. No former president has ever been tried, much less found guilty, for felonies before.…

As classrooms close for the summer and families and teachers reflect on the experiences and the ways that their students have grown since August, I am preparing my classroom for a new, incoming teacher. After…

In the outpouring of eulogies to Bill Walton — ranging from hagiography of his basketball skills to posthumous plaudits for his political activism to appreciation for his colorful verbal wit — I want to share…