President Trump prosecutes his political opponents; deports immigrants, including some here legally, to foreign prisons without due process; solicits tribute...

The notion that America would be stronger if it was bigger preoccupied several 19th-century U.S. presidents, but none more than...

A Russian proverb I heard growing up translates to something like “Those who recall the past will lose an eye.”...

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Kristi Noem, the secretary of homeland security, has become an evangelist of a certain sort. During her tenure, her department...

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For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose...

For the past year, the United States has gone without its doctor. Ever since Vivek Murthy resigned as surgeon general...

The past year has been an annus horribilis for American democracy. Donald Trump launched an assault on any source of...

A year into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of activity. Whether...

By the time she faced her first oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Pam Bondi had become a person...

The United States is a global superpower and its military trains for war in every domain. During my years as...

The massive scandal around welfare fraud in Minnesota became a big story the same way the character Mike Campbell in...