Trump’s Greenland fixation curdles into a crisis
President Donald Trump isn’t crazy to want a greater U.S. role in Greenland for national security reasons — and he...
Trump seizes a tanker and loses patience with Putin
Wednesday’s daring boarding of the sanctioned oil tanker Marinera off the coast of Iceland by U.S. Special Forces brings to...
Mass deportation campaign takes a deadly turn in Minneapolis
The shooting of a 37-year-old woman by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis is a tragedy, no matter what narrative...
Venezuelan politics are a ‘blood sport.’ The U.S. is entering the ring.
The day after U.S. special forces swept into Caracas, the new Venezuelan president assembled her cabinet members around a large...
Nick Reiner’s attorney withdraws, plea postponed in parents’ murder case
LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner’s high-profile attorney, Alan Jackson, withdrew from the case Wednesday, during a court hearing where Reiner...
D.C. leaders push back on U.S. DOT proposal to ban city traffic cameras
D.C. officials pushed back Wednesday against a reported Department of Transportation proposal that threatens to cut funding for the city...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says it will close down, citing losses and labor rules
The 240-year-old Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down following a protracted labor battle and court rulings favoring its union. The newspaper...
The world has a few more years
The “AI 2027” website is out of date. Last year, to great fanfare, it warned that 2027 would be the...
The White House’s pro-crime manifesto
President Donald Trump and the Democratic Party have finally found something they can agree on: keeping Jan. 6, 2021, in...
Good riddance, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
If an organization cannot survive without federal funding, it isn’t really private. This truth is lost on the Corporation for...
Béla Fleck on dropping his Kennedy Center shows: ‘Not canceling is taking a side’
Acclaimed banjoist Béla Fleck announced Tuesday that he had pulled out of a trio of National Symphony Orchestra concerts he...
Trump says he’ll ban large investors from buying homes, with few details
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would ban large institutional investors from buying single-family houses, marking a new push...
GPS needs backup
The Jan. 3 front-page article “GPS, a pillar of daily life, faces increasing attacks” was a great overview. And the...
U.S. reduces number of warships near Venezuela after Maduro raid
The fleet of U.S. warships assembled in the Caribbean Sea during the run-up to Saturday’s capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás...
What destroyed ‘the right to be let alone’
Tiffany Jenkins, a cultural historian, is the author, most recently, of “Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private...
