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I don't get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime.

This is about the good ones.

Hamdi Ulukaya made billions founding ...Read more

If he can do it, I can say it. But why did he do it? You know why? The same reason your kids would -- ridicule; mockery. A visible showing of contempt for a significant percentage of what we used to call your fellow Americans.

Can you imagine Ronald Reagan doing it?

I remember speaking at a panel with Newt Gingrich right after his revolution...Read more

The "No Kings" protest across the nation added up to nearly 7 million people protesting President Donald Trump's reign. Dissent is upon us, catching and spreading.

Shakespeare's King Lear, King Charles I of England and King Louis XVI of France met fates that upended their eras. Two kings literally lost their heads. Here's the deal, straight ...Read more

When will top Democratic Party officials recognize that today's electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?

Rather, most Americans are anti-establishment rebels who've been knocked down, kicked out and told that they don't matter. Indeed, our country's true political spectrum doesn't run right to left, but top to bottom. Right-wing/left-...Read more

When Louisiana finally won a second majority-Black district in 2024, I felt a weight lift from my shoulders. For decades, Black voters like me knew that having only one voting district where we could be heard was not enough to reflect a third of the state's population. So when the state gained a second seat, I thought of those who fought ...Read more

As the first and only convicted felon to serve as president, Donald Trump's claim to be concerned about crime in America is a somewhat compromised one. And, of course, it's not just the 34 felony counts on which he stands convicted by a New York jury but the federal criminal indictments for violating the Espionage Act, obstructing justice and ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani's alleged zinger in last week's New York mayoral debate was a claim that he had "integrity" and his chief opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not. The people know Cuomo's glories and missteps. But many have been TikTok-ed out of recognizing Mamdani's two-faced candidacy displaying more calculation than conviction.

Start ...Read more

Fresh from his triumph in the Middle East, President Donald Trump returned to Washington and reverted to playing the vengeful monarch, holding a press conference in the White House to announce his enemies' list and demand that they be prosecuted -- for something. Having put in place a personal lawyer of his with no prosecutorial experience who...Read more

A rescued gopher tortoise arrived at the Nokuse Nature Preserve in Florida's Panhandle while my sister Erica and I were there. It didn't know how lucky it was. Across Florida, builders are required to obtain permits from the state to capture and relocate gopher tortoises found on development sites. It's a system meant to save them -- but does it...Read more

Hamas's victory over Israel will go down in history as one of the most stunning upsets in the history of modern warfare. It will be studied by future resistance groups for instructions on how a guerrilla army can achieve its aims despite facing an adversary with seemingly insurmountable advantages in weaponry, technology, funding and ...Read more

Pretending to be "shocked" by junior Republicans revealing their inner Klansmen must be a challenge, at this late date, for anyone who has been paying attention. Perhaps some of the GOP officials proclaiming their disgust over the disclosure of thousands of racist, antisemitic, homophobic, misogynist and, yes, Hitlerian texts exchanged by ...Read more

There's a corner store in your neighborhood. Some people call it a "bodega," but those people want to destroy America.

The place sells lottery tickets, soda, cigarettes, ice cream on a stick, a small selection of canned goods, beer, milk, candy, frozen pizza, single rolls of thin toilet paper and other goods you need to run a modest but not ...Read more

So Democrat Janet Mills, governor of Maine, is running against Susan Collins, the state's Republican senator since 1997. An established political figure would be running against another established political figure, yet the current reportage for Mills tends to start off with "77-year-old Janet Mills." Collins happens to be 72.

The Democratic ...Read more

President Donald Trump is flying high. He calls it a "historic dawn of a new Middle East," resolving "3,000 years" of conflict, even though, in his speech to the Knesset, he couldn't stop himself from insulting former Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama for their "hatred toward Israel," saying they could never have done what he did.

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A man and woman, each 79, are in the news this week: President Donald Trump and movie star Diane Keaton. Could they be more different?

They are the dark and light sides of the baby boomers, who did so much to shape the contours of our culture and history.

Let's start with Trump. For the first time ever, on Oct. 13, Trump boosted the sum of ...Read more

Our country's magnificent National Park System has been called "America's greatest idea."

These 433 treasures -- along with our rich diversity of national museums and historical sites -- each have their own stories to tell. But the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, for together they express America's egalitarian spirit and "little-d...Read more

In his first nine months back in office, President Donald Trump has abused his power to attack our neighbors and communities, suppress free speech and create a climate of fear. The president has deployed military troops and federal agents into our cities. He has threatened nonprofit organizations, universities and political opponents who don't ...Read more