×

Columns

How to meditate — for the chronically anxious

Mindfulness meditation: It’s all the rage. If you’ve been anywhere, talked to anyone or visited any social media site, you’ve likely heard about some of the positive effects of mindfulness meditation — how it can help with a wide variety of problems like depression, stress, insomnia, ...

What happens when government reports ‘alternative’ facts?

Much has been written about the Trump team’s assault on civil society, universities, public health, the judiciary and our global alliances, and rightly so -- but there is one danger that deserves more attention because our ability to thwart this attempted revolution, this upending of our ...

Will Trump’s tariffs move us back to the Constitutional order?

It has been hard this past week, of tariffs applied worldwide on April 2 to tariffs suspended except for China on April 9, to avoid reflecting on how much trouble could have been avoided if economists, instead of talking about countries’ trade surpluses and trade deficits, had devised ...

Real reason we’re in national emergency

It’s hard to remember that only 10 weeks ago, the American economy was quite good, our foreign relations were on the whole positive, we were on the way to dealing with climate change with subsidies for wind and solar energy, and we still lived in a democracy. Today, all that is ...

Wapo says tariffs a mistake

Klarna, StubHub and Medline have put on hold their initial public offerings. Jaguar Land Rover has paused all car shipments to the United States. Nintendo has delayed taking preorders for its new game console, the Switch 2, to assess the effect of tariffs on prices. President Donald Trump is ...