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Who is Ilhan Omar?

Much of Ilhan Omar's family story is a black box, but we are presumably about to learn more about it. Federal authorities raided her Washington, D.C., residence in what's reportedly a probe related to her immigration paperwork. The congresswoman has alleged an effort to weaponize federal ...

Has Trump broken his McDonald’s promise?

The defining moment of the 2024 presidential campaign, it can be argued, came almost exactly two years ago, on Sunday, Oct. 20, when then-former President Donald Trump traded his suit coat for a yellow apron and worked the fry station and the drive-thru window at a McDonald's. His staff ...

What voters see in the parties

The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...

American right-wingers are misreading France’s ‘high school’ riots

PARIS — Every time I start thinking that maybe I could permanently retire my gas mask from the early 2020s Yellow Vest riots here in France — the one with the handy hole for a beverage straw — it's time to drag it out again. This time, it's because French teenagers are burning down their ...

Trump is Picasso of corruption

Trayon White, a member of the city council in the District of Columbia, just walked away from a hung jury in a bribery trial. The facts were kind of wild. Though White admitted to accepting $35,000 in cash from a city contractor (who turned out to be an FBI informant), and the prosecution ...

Is Halloween a time for Frankenstein? Ask AI

The "Frankenstein" movie is one of my favorites. The book was written in 1810. The author could be credited with either having a great imagination or for being a genius visionary. Could AI be the 21st-Century version of "Frankenstein?" The traditional story starts with Victor Frankenstein, a ...