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It looks like President Donald Trump is going back on campaign promises – surprising no one familiar with his track record of grift in the process. He said at a private lunch Wednesday that Medicaid, Medicare and day care were too costly for the United States to foot the bill.
Your friendly neighborhood Jan. 6 participant may also be your next elected official.
President Donald Trump must have come to the Supreme Court for oral arguments in the birthright citizenship case hoping to hear “his” justices inveigh against what he has called illegal aliens. Instead, he heard a lot about the original meaning of the 14th Amendment. Whether the president knew it or not, originalism sounds the death knell for his executive order ending birthright citizenship. ...
“Eat real food.” That new message, a key pillar of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, isn’t controversial. Nutritionists, scientists, politicians and lunchbox-packing parents all generally agree that’s a solid goal. You’ve heard this statistic before: More than half of the calories Americans consume — 53% for adults and 62% for children — now come from ultra-processed foods, ...
In President Donald Trump's first term, many members of his Cabinet were establishment conservatives with tangible, executive experience who were willing to follow the president far to the right … but had lines in the sand they were unwilling to cross. In this second term, Trump has prioritized surrounding himself with those who are unwilling to cross him. And during her time as attorney ...
In a functioning American democracy, the president would deliver an Oval Office address at the start of a new military conflict. Donald Trump, however, decided to wait until a month into his war with Iran to give a speech about it to a skeptical public.
One of the strangest things about cultural and political discourse today is that everyone is pushed to pick a side. Tribalism is enforced. Nowhere is that more evident than in how women judge each other’s choices about work, marriage and motherhood.
As attorney general, Pam Bondi lied for President Donald Trump. She hurled insults at Democrats for him. She tried to shield him from the Jeffrey Epstein files. She groveled and doused him with praise in Cabinet meetings.
November midterm elections are fast approaching, and Democratic candidates are set up to succeed. Whether they follow through is up to them.
It’s understandable that America’s NATO allies – bullied, disparaged and threatened by President Donald Trump – hardly want to lift a finger to help the United States and Israel in their war in Iran.
In the 1950s, when half of American adults smoked, many freshmen unpacking at college were greeted by upperclassmen paid by tobacco companies to distribute free cigarettes. In 1964, the U.S. surgeon general said smoking causes lung cancer. Most people, however, had long intuited that inhaling smoke from a burning plant is unhealthy. In a 1906 O. Henry short story, a character asks, “Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?”
By Seattle Times editorial board
From Kinmen, a tiny outer island of Taiwan which lies less than 2 miles from the Chinese mainland, one can view the high-rise towers of the Chinese port city of Xiamen.
On Monday, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to threaten voting by mail, as Washington and other states do it, during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee. This troubling development comes at the same time the RNC, with President Donald Trump’s backing, is pressing Congress to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would suppress the ...
It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear that Donald Trump’s war in Iran is going sideways. After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee appeared shaken.
As Donald Trump behaves more and more like a mad king than a president – forcing America into an already disastrous war with Iran without congressional approval, targeting political enemies, babbling about building ballrooms and arches – the third round of aptly named “No Kings” protests arrives to highlight just how much our president is disliked.
A jury in Los Angeles may have just done for social media what early lawsuits did for Big Tobacco. Outside the courtroom, families who said they have lost children to the effects of these platforms gathered in shirts that read “We Are K.G.M.,” expressing solidarity with the 20-year-old plaintiff. Inside the court on Wednesday morning, the jury of the landmark case K.G.M. vs. Meta and Google ...
If there is a familiar refrain from the critics of President Donald Trump these days, it’s about his foreign policy excursions overwhelming his administration and preventing him from focusing on the economy and other domestic challenges, which register his approval rating at around 40%. Some of his MAGA loyalists are now questioning their 2024 votes for the America First candidate who criticized past presidents for fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Fetal personhood laws have been reaching new extremes in the post-Roe v. Wade era. A new ProPublica investigation shows just how far states are willing to go to invalidate pregnant people’s wishes in the interest of protecting an unborn child.
Everyone’s laughing at my president, Donald J. Trump, because he cast a mail-in ballot for a Tuesday special election in Florida. They think it’s funny that the GOP candidate he endorsed, in a district that contains the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, lost.
