America’s annual rituals and observances include days we usually celebrate together (July Fourth, Memorial Day, Veterans Day), or as members of special groups (Passover, Easter and Christmas). The one annual ritual it can be safely said most Americans despise is April 15, when the half of ...

Donald Trump’s defenders have taken great offense to suspicions by Democrats and others that the Trump family and its close circle are doing insider trading to profit from market convulsions. There’s no “proof,” they say. It’s true that there’s been no proof so far, but there’s ...

During her confirmation hearing to become education secretary, Linda McMahon promised she would work to “send education back to the states.” Already, she is doing the opposite. Last week, McMahon’s department issued an ultimatum to state education officials: Certify within 10 days that ...

With the erasure of 10% of Americans’ retirement savings in 48 hours last week, the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination on April 4, 1968, was entirely eclipsed. President Donald Trump, the self-professed hero of ordinary Americans, marked the evaporation of ordinary ...

Republicans claim they are slashing government, but they’re about to explode the budget deficit to extend President Donald Trump’s tax cuts — which would balloon interest payments on the national debt, already one of the largest expenses in the federal budget. That’s no way to slash the ...

We have the dire wolf again. Thanks to the heroic work of Colossal Biosciences, the canine species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago has been revived in a stunning act of so-called de-extinction. The dire wolf is a bit of a Late Pleistocene celebrity thanks to its role in the ...