Germany took an expected turn to the right electing a conservative businessman to lead the country while an upstart far-right party, the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), claimed second place thanks in part to its unconventional leader, Alice Weidel, a...
The ripple effects of Elon Musk’s DOGE firing squad have just begun.
First told she had been put on a list, then told she was probably OK only to be texted 45 minutes later to come back to the office....
The deafening silence sweeping over Washington spells danger for democracy. With the swiftness of a string of social media posts culminating in an AI-generated image of himself as an orchestra conductor, President Donald Trump sealed his takeover of a...
It’s hard to drink from a firehose. Every news cycle brings fresh horrors on how our democracy is being ravaged by people whose main qualifications are their dedication to Donald Trump. As the White House bombards the country with...
When billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post in 2013, the storied paper was “upside down.” It was bleeding money. The Internet had stolen all the advantages of print media; if the Post was any other business,...
If confirmed as Donald Trump’s IRS commissioner, former Republican Congressman Billy Long will embody the disdain that an administration of, for and by billionaires has for our tax system. The former six-term congressman has no background as a tax...
Jimmy Carter’s legacy is defined more by the causes he embraced and the work that he did as an ex-president than his single term in the White House. Among those causes was Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for...
Former President Jimmy Carter, a champion for humanity who lost the White House after one term, died Sunday. He was 100. Carter, who was the longest-living U.S. president, died at his home at 3:45 p.m. in Plains, Georgia after...
The targeted killing carried out in the early morning in Midtown Manhattan was shocking enough. The top executive of a major health care insurance company gunned down on his way to an investors' meeting. The reaction on social media...
A father with the power to keep his son out of jail: it shouldn’t be surprising that President Biden used that power even though he said he wouldn’t. The rule of law and all that... But then an election...