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Over the course of the last many days, indelible images have dominated the White House’s mass deportation efforts in Minnesota. A teary-eyed 5-year-old named Liam Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat and carrying a Spider-Man backpack, and bound for a Texas detention facility. A man pinned to the ground by federal agents as another sprays a chemical agent in his face. ChongLy “Scott” Thao led out of his house in boxers in the falling snow. Renee Good saying, “I’m not mad at you,” seconds before being shot and killed. Now there is Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, first filming border agents on his phone, then on his knees surrounded by masked Border Patrol agents – and then, seconds later, shot dead.
After the United States successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump has demonstrated why the operation really happened: oil.
On the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Donald Trump declared in a low-energy press conference that America is the hottest country in the world. He flashed a thick stack of pages that, he said, listed his accomplishments, among them renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
If only President Donald Trump cared as much about the civil rights of protesters in the streets of America as he does about the protesters in the streets of Iran.
When President Donald Trump promised Americans a new Golden Age, I didn’t expect it would involve low-rent-mall-cop Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nabbing angel-faced 5-year-old children off the streets of Midwestern cities and using them as bait.
When I first saw a note from President Donald Trump to the prime minister of Norway popping up on social media, I thought it was fake. I’ve written about this loon of a politician for more than a decade, but surely this ornery, whining communiqué to a world leader – with Trump venting over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize while threatening to take Greenland by any means necessary – was a prank.
If you read conservative media, you might have heard about a new danger stalking our besieged country.
What does it mean to be an American? That question lies at the heart of a debate between Vivek Ramaswamy and Vice President JD Vance that will help determine the future of the Republican Party. The run-up to the country’s semiquincentennial is the perfect time to hold the debate, but it also presents an enormous problem for Vance: The Founders were on Ramaswamy’s side. In a recent speech and ...
We Americans like to boast, “We’re No. 1,” and we certainly are in our military capacity to invade other countries and abduct odious foreign leaders.
Let’s resolve to have the courage to speak up more in 2026. I realize this is easy for me to say; I’m a columnist. But I live in Florida, where I have many friends who have been Trump supporters and who are privately queasy about what they see as brazen corruption coming from President Donald Trump and his administration. While there is widespread support for the ouster of Venezuelan President ...
There is no facet of American life that President Donald Trump hasn’t touched in the past year. That includes the art world – even when Trump isn’t the subject.
Notable among the slogans being chanted by the protesters flooding Iran’s streets is this one: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, my life for Iran.” That’s more than a repudiation of the regime’s foreign policy. It’s a reminder that a policy of antisemitism has a way of eventually destroying the antisemite.
For the past decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.
Throughout Donald Trump’s second term, when he’s sent armed, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents into cities, locals have tried to resist by organizing neighborhood watches, both to warn people that agents are coming and to document the arrests they make. Minneapolis, where last week ICE launched what its acting director called the “largest immigration operation ever,” was no different.
The auto industry is headed back to where it should have stayed in the quest to put a cleaner fleet on the road: hybrids. Automakers are rapidly backing away from plans to fully electrify their offerings, due to an easing of fuel economy and emissions mandates by the Trump administration and continued resistance from consumers. But that doesn’t mean they are totally abandoning their green ...
In the days since the Trump administration has doubled down on its beef with U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona, announcing plans to demote the retired Navy captain for reminding members of the military that they must refuse illegal orders, Kelly has done what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth probably hoped he wouldn’t: keep talking.
It’s been a bad year for the isolationist right. From Tehran to Caracas, President Donald Trump is flexing U.S. military might on the world stage. This clearly is not the foreign policy they expected when Trump returned to the White House.
Most Americans like to believe that this is a nation of laws, where justice is blind to power and status. But that is a bit of self-flattery. The truth is that as a country we have often found one reason or another to let the powerful escape the consequences of their actions.
There are good reasons to celebrate the downfall of the tyrant Nicolás Maduro, as so many Venezuelan exiles did when they heard the news Saturday morning. Not among those reasons: An America that seizes Venezuela’s oil assets while keeping what’s left of Maduro’s odious regime in place.
I watched the video of a mother being gunned down in her car by federal agents on a residential Minneapolis street and was told by my government to believe she was a domestic terrorist.
