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While most folks think that the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on farm policy, the largest agency within USDA is the Forest Service — famous for Smokey Bear and quietly doing significant work on many fronts. As secretaries of Agriculture during the Clinton and Bush administrations, we spent years getting to know what this agency does: not only timber management but also stewardship of ...
Serena Williams’ comeback isn’t only for her.
There’s nothing like a circus for entertainment, especially if you enjoy the blood sport of South Carolina politics. The Roman Colosseum had nothing on the state’s political games, which these days have become more dramatic thanks to the head-spinning theatrics of Rep. Nancy Mace, the erstwhile Republican front-runner in the governor’s race.
There’s a paragraph that comes early in Mike Pence’s new book, “What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the Conservative Conscience,” that hangs over most of what follows.
Candidate quality has plagued both parties for years. Republicans notoriously squandered what was supposed to be a red wave in 2022 by nominating a slate of deeply flawed Senate candidates. Democrats have struggled to field strong presidential contenders and have left winnable state races on the table.
The biggest national security threat the United States faces at this moment is President Donald Trump. Nothing illustrates that threat more clearly than the president’s pick of MAGA attack dog Bill Pulte, who has zero experience in the intelligence field, as acting czar of all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies. This choice is a neon sign flashing out Trump’s utter scorn for and distrust of the ...
My family’s faith tradition is what you might call All Over The Place.
President Donald Trump is proving to be the POTUS he has accused Joe Biden of being and scared Americans into thinking Kamala Harris would be. If only his Make America Great Again disciples could recognize that.
When the musical lineup for President Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration was announced, I was fired up.
Supporters of Washington state’s impending 9.9% millionaire tax celebrated the state Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling blocking a voter referendum on the measure. However, if proponents better understood the potential economic damage this tax is likely to inflict, they might adopt a more cautious stance. The public could typically fight such laws by passing a referendum with 154,455 votes. ...
Let’s be clear: Even if President Donald Trump does not succeed in forcing Iran to capitulate at the negotiating table, the world is safer today because of his decision to strike the regime. The question is whether the massive military setbacks Iran has suffered will be temporary or permanent.
Funding for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agencies was at the epicenter of the recently resolved budget impasse. This roadblock, resulting in a record-long 75-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, was focused on how ICE was staffed and directed by the Trump administration. During his campaign in 2024, President Donald Trump promised he ...
Some Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are proving just how far they’re willing to go to control women’s bodies.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois used to be considered one of the best federal prosecutors’ offices in the country, but the last week has shown that Donald Trump’s administration is driving it off the rails.
Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government’s attention to a perennially popular fiscal scam: Ease the pressure on household budgets with a gas tax holiday. In reality, such a plan to curry favor with voters would make them, all things considered, worse off. Responsible policymakers should have nothing to do ...
Republicans like newly minted U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton of Texas would like you to know, in no uncertain terms, that Democrats are a pack of wild, tongue-wagging extremists out to destroy America.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate race and will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in what is expected to be one of the most closely watched Senate contests of this election cycle.
It isn’t hard to see the case for striking a deal with Iran, one that will turn the current shaky ceasefire into a long-term truce.
Everything, it seems, is rigged these days.
Rarely has a document been at once as mysterious and anticlimactic as the Democratic National Committee’s autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 election, which, after much drama and angst, was finally published on Thursday.
