April 23, 2024, 6:01am Columns
If you’re searching for insight into the likelihood of a second American civil war, you won’t find it in “Civil War,” a film written and directed by Alex Garland and currently in theaters. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In issuing a new rule to close the gun show loophole for firearm sales, the Biden administration isn’t just narrowing one of the easier paths by which criminals obtain guns. It’s attempting to close a sacred portal into American gun culture. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Californians have had weekend after weekend of cool, stormy weather and the Sierra Nevada has been blessed with a healthy snowpack. But the reality is that even the last few months have been more than 2 degrees hotter than average. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The threat to President Joe Biden’s reelection from progressive critics of his support of Israel’s war in Gaza replicates a familiar pattern that jeopardized the prospects of past Democratic candidates. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
With the death of singer-songwriter Eric Carmen last month and Earth Day today, I got to thinking about Carmen’s song “All By Myself” and how deeper forms of activism are both essential to making change and a powerful antidote to our growing epidemic of loneliness. Read story
April 22, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At the 2016 Republican National Convention, when I told Donald Trump’s “God whisperer” Paula White that he referred to her as his pastor, she said she was his spiritual adviser — as if that were some sort of “get out of jail free” card for her. And yet White worked… Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:02am Columns
When it comes to basketball, maybe Caitlin Clark can do everything. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of U.S. government borrowing is unsustainable. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
I see that the right-most flank of the national Republican Party is baying to take out another GOP speaker of the house, for the sin of being too into compromise. I also see that the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is agitating to take out Washington’s last Republican in… Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Paying “hush money” to keep an extramarital affair quiet is not a crime. And falsifying business records to cover it up is not a felony. What makes it one — or 34, the number of felony counts Donald Trump has been charged with — is an “intent to defraud” that… Read story
