Given the long history of cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, it’s tempting to dismiss their recent announcement of a mutual security pact as mere paperwork, formalizing a relationship that already exists.

But it’s much more than that. This is the first concrete indication of what a post-American world might look like — one ...Read more

Like that one friend who repeatedly promises to quit drinking after just one last round, the American government is staggering toward another shutdown. It’s starting to seem inevitable — because it looks as though neither side is going to swerve in this game of chicken.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., the Senate minority leader who somehow ...Read more

When Walt Disney Co. announced it would end the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," after several days of protest, subscription cancellations and boycotts, defenders of the First Amendment (on all points of the political spectrum) rejoiced.

That victory came with an asterisk, however, after Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media Group ...Read more

The Trump administration has been routinely targeting legal pathways to citizenship, including giving officials broader discretion to deny naturalization on vague grounds such as “anti-American” views and attempting to nullify birthright citizenship. So, it’s no surprise that the White House is now reinstating an expanded citizenship exam....Read more

It isn’t only late-night TV hosts who have the freedom to criticize the powerful. It’s not just the press that depends on the First Amendment.

Yelp restaurant reviews, snarky T-shirts, police reports of spouse abuse, Broadway plays, art galleries, Little Free Libraries on neighborhood corners, online memes and raising a fist are all rooted ...Read more

Bomb the United Nations headquarters. Or maybe gas it. Fox News host Jesse Watters had plenty of ideas about how to punish the U.N. after President Trump’s humiliating visit to the organization’s New York headquarters Tuesday.

Trump’s arrival at the General Assembly meeting with First Lady Melania Trump began with the pair stranded at the...Read more

The press gaggle gathered last month by the Israeli government at the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza could see the concrete walls snaking through the sand and debris dunes, the Israeli watch towers and a couple of army vehicles driving through.

This is as close as foreign journalists have been able to get to Gaza, other than rare trips ...Read more

Decades ago, college students fought for free speech on college campuses. Today, many college students fight against the exercise of free speech on college campuses.

Worse, the ideas that inspire these students to shut down civil discourse often come from college professors. Many higher education administrators then lack the moral clarity and ...Read more

Across the globe, there’s a clear playbook for how authoritarians suppress academic freedom. The firing of an English professor, two university administrators, and the resignation of Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh last week took a page right out of it.

The playbook involves identifying some “enemy” as a cultural threat — as ...Read more

In the “free state of Florida,” your freedom goes as far as the political whims of our governor.

You’re entitled to free speech, unless you’re a company like Disney who disagrees with Gov. Ron DeSantis. Parents should be free to not vaccinate their children and still send them to public school, regardless of the risk to other students. ...Read more

For months, the Trump administration has been waging a multi-front war on the working class: ending collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, ripping up signed union contracts, muzzling the agency tasked with overseeing private sector bargaining laws, and strangling manufacturing jobs while driving up costs for ...Read more

Now that Donald Trump has finally come around to publicly stating that besieged Ukraine could use military support from the U.S. and the European Union to fully recover all of the territory taken over by Russia, the world should lock in the president’s U-turn, which stunned policymakers everywhere.

Trump has clearly had enough with his old ...Read more

Whenever someone said to my father, “Let’s have a conversation,” he would reply, “No, let’s have an argument.” Today, that would sound aggressive, but it wasn’t at all. We need more people today who are willing to engage in this way.

My father explained to people what he meant by “having an argument.” He did not mean that we ...Read more

With the federal government now the largest shareholder of Intel, an ostensibly private company, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wants you to know that “This is not socialism.” But if public ownership of the means of production isn’t socialism, what is?

With feverish speed and characteristic blunderbuss, President Donald Trump has given...Read more

A restaurant take-out bag with $50,000 inside. A former (and future) government official. Allegations of a Department of Justice cover-up. It sounds like a Matt Damon movie, but it’s just another day in 2025.

The Justice Department has halted the investigation of border czar Tom Homan, who MSNBC reported was caught on tape last September ...Read more

President Donald Trump insists this isn’t his war — that it belongs to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden. “This is not my war; it is theirs,” he has said, all from a man who claims he alone can solve the world’s problems.

History, however, leaves little patience for such deflection. President ...Read more

Former Vice President Kamala Harris waits only a few pages into her book to start the blame game.

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s expert opinion that then-President Joe Biden could not be prosecuted for hoarding classified documents because a jury would look at him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” comes early.

Next up, ...Read more

Now that summer’s over, I’m back to indoor water aerobics three days a week because the outdoor public pool in my town is closed for the year. I’m sad not to be in the warm morning water, watching the sun come up. But I’m also relieved, because on the nights before our 6 a.m. classes, I’d consult my weather app to see whether rain was ...Read more

In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America’s health with his pseudo-science nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing. President Donald Trump, after all, has been focused lately on priorities such as militarizing America’s streets and policing late-night ...Read more

America is aging rapidly.

By 2034, there will be more seniors than children for the first time in our country’s history. Meanwhile, the federal debt has exploded and will be the equivalent of a second mortgage for today’s youth.

Young people, in turn, will be called on to produce more to support an aging population and will be forced to ...Read more