Incoming US President-elect Donald Trump keeps threatening to dropkick countries like Canada that don’t meet their defense spending obligations as members of the transatlantic weapons lobby known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) out of its protection racket. Please, just do ...

There’s something about Donald Trump winning an election that drives journalists crazy. The National Press Club in the nation’s capital is an epicenter of media arrogance, as anyone could see from its Nov. 21 “Fourth Estate Award Gala,” in which they proclaimed they were honoring the ...

One thing Hollywood is very good at is scaring the bejesus out of Americans — even when they’re merely spreading false fears. A famous movie in 1979 called “The China Syndrome” chronicled a nuclear power accident that could kill tens of thousands of Americans with radiation poisoning. ...

Coincident with Donald Trump’s electoral victory, increasing numbers of America’s corporations are backing off their DEI — diversity, equity, inclusion — programs. Trump opposition to DEI is clear, and J.D. Vance’s bold opposition to this agenda was one of the reasons for his ...

Did anyone expect, when they heard the candidate’s announcement at the base of the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, that nine years later, he would be elected to a second term with sharp increases in Republican percentages from nonwhite people — Latinos especially, but also Black and ...

We’ve all heard the story of the first Thanksgiving. The plight of pilgrims traveling from England to establish Plymouth colony in the new world. How they survived a brutal winter and then celebrated a successful harvest with Native Americans the following fall in what would become known as ...