“Was Germany in the 1930s anything like the US now?” I get asked that a lot, not because I was there but because my parents were, and my father left behind plenty of papers and…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water, if a deal to…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department plans to put President Donald Trump’s signature on all new U.S. paper currency, the agency announced on Thursday. The move would be a first for a sitting president,…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, who wants to ban mail-in voting, said he had the right to vote by mail-in ballot in Florida’s special election Tuesday “because I’m president of the United States.” The president’s…

For the 20th consecutive year, the world continues to become less free, and Freedom House’s latest report doesn’t waste time in sounding the alarm. It’s in the report’s title: “Freedom in the World 2026: The…

As it turns out, we aren’t quite so divided as a nation. Again and again, surveys show that Americans agree that billionaires and corporations don’t need more tax breaks.  We agree that we want quality,…

After Venezuela and Iran, what’s another U.S. military incursion? President Donald Trump said a few days ago that he will be “having the honor of taking Cuba” and that he can do “anything” he wants…

I was 8 years old when I was asked to leave the fancy private school where my aunt had been a teacher. It was a bit of irony; the daughter and granddaughter of writers couldn’t…

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department sent a subpoena to former FBI Director James Comey as part of an investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials waged a years-long conspiracy against President Donald Trump,…

On a summer day after the Civil War began in 1861, civilians including elites, politicians and socialites packed picnic baskets with sandwiches and cakes and drove their carriages to Centreville, Virginia, to watch, some through…