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So now all the babies born to undocumented parents in the 28 states that didn't challenge President Donald Trump's executive order will have to sue (anonymously, of course, lest this administration deport them, which it would if it could find them) to demand that the Constitution be followed in their state and get an injunction of their own. ...Read more

Whatever United States military forces may have achieved in last week's brief attack on Iranian nuclear sites -- a question that will not be answered definitively anytime soon -- we have learned again the most fundamental fact about the current occupant of the White House.

Under Donald Trump, the principal purpose of our military and ...Read more

The people have a message for the establishment: We hate you. We really, really hate you.

The upset victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York's Democratic mayoral primary -- which, in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, makes him the odds-on favorite to win the general election -- has profound implications for a national party still reeling from ...Read more

Birds are dying at an alarming rate, and it's a warning sign to humans that the quality of our environments are getting worse. Bird populations are an ecosystem indicator. The massive decline in bird species serves as our collective canary in a coal mine, an urgent reminder that what matters to birds matters to humans.

The North American Bird ...Read more

I don't burn sage because I want to purify my house. I burn cigars because they taste good. I like to burn them with a cup of black coffee or a glass of Irish whiskey.

I can box a little. I can ride a horse. I'm a fairly good shot.

So, right there, I get the serious, old-school manhood badge that so many guys cultivate with everything from ...Read more

Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Bobby," as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines that have saved millions from death or serious disease ...Read more

Not exactly.

First of all, it's not clear what "all" exactly means. Was Iran's nuclear capacity really eliminated? What capacity did they actually have? We don't seem to have a consensus within the administration on even the most basic questions, or they wouldn't be pushing back so hard against those who claim that Trump's rhetoric was ...Read more

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society.

Campbell's focus is far from skirmishes but rather on the forces and figures that filled the halls of Congress, keeping memory alive in the spirit of Clio, the mythical muse of history whose ...Read more

How embarrassing. Our showbiz president's glorious $45 million military parade -- fssssst -- fizzled. The gods rained on it, the thing dragged on and President Donald Trump himself kept nodding off in his chair. Sad.

His show needed some of the reality-TV drama that defines this president. For example, he could've had a phalanx of food trucks...Read more

In his book on America's hitherto most accomplished demagogue, "No Sense of Decency," journalist Robert Shogan concluded that the principal reason America's favorable view of Joseph McCarthy eventually collapsed was "the increased revulsion of many Americans for McCarthy as a result of what they saw of him. ... What came across was McCarthy's ...Read more

Let me offer some rare praise for Donald Trump. His attack on Iran's nuclear development sites was carefully executed. Nobody outside a tight circle knew about it in advance. And he was wise in shifting the talk into calls for peace.

We don't know whether the bunker busters reached all the near-bomb-grade uranium or if other sites for fuel ...Read more

The Trump administration has followed through on its promise to gut the Head Start program. Since April, it has slashed 60% of the Office of Head Start staff, closed half of the regional offices where staff with local knowledge worked, delayed funding necessary for payroll and rent and undermined the program's mission through its ban on ...Read more

To bomb or not to bomb.

That is the question.

And the answer is: he'll decide "within the next two weeks."

Why two weeks?

Because with President Donald Trump, "two weeks" could mean almost anything.

Asked two months ago if he could trust Russian President Vladimir Putin, he replied "I'll let you know in two weeks." Still waiting?

Asked ...Read more

In "1984," one of George Orwell's characters explains that "doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." There's a less elegant, yet equally absurd, way to describe the behavior of a politician who expresses two contradictory beliefs at once. People do what they want,...Read more

If you've been a reporter long enough, you learn that when people say you're a "member of the Fourth Estate," they mean to insult you and to let you know they read a book once.

The only exception is lawyers, who use the term the same way they use Latin, as a way to remind you that they've read a lot of books.

And in America, we can afford a ...Read more

We have gotten to the point where lawmakers openly complain about it being "scary as sh--," according to NBC News, with security briefings having "done little to calm nervous lawmakers."

They're right to be worried, as are political leaders at the state and local level, most of whom receive no special police protection. Risking your life should...Read more