The arguments the Trump administration makes to justify dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development are, for the most part, just ill-informed wisecracks. To call the United States’ $10 million contribution to support male circumcision in Mozambique “ appalling waste,” as ...

I am writing this from the last days of our captivity. Indeed, by the time some of you read this, we will be free. If all goes according to the White House’s plan, April 2 will go down in history as America’s “Liberation Day.” Steve Bannon, a prominent unofficial Trump adviser, is ...

A hard-won Senate confirmation was not enough to keep the aroma of scandal away from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for long. As labels like “Signalgate” or, as I call it, “the Big Ooops” struggled for dominance in headlines, Hegseth’s fellow Republicans struggled to ignore ...

President Donald Trump ended federal DEI programs. Even before, companies were having second thoughts. Victoria’s Secret changed “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” to “inclusion and belonging.” Now, even woke Disney, despite squandering 270 million shareholder dollars on a ...

The mayor of Boston wants everyone to know that her city is all about the fundamentally American value of protecting lawbreakers. Michelle Wu, a first-term Democrat, is a fierce defender of Boston’s sanctuary city policies that seek to frustrate federal immigration enforcement. She sees ...

“Imagine boarding a train in the center of a city,” former President Barack Obama rhapsodized in April 2009. “No racing to an airport and across a terminal, no delays, no sitting on the tarmac, no lost luggage, no taking off your shoes. Imagine whisking through towns at speeds over 100 ...