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Leave it to the Trump administration to come up with yet another way to enforce -- and I mean enforce -- its political ideology on students. It's bad enough -- well, worse than bad enough -- that they are trying to police our classrooms; their next move is to redefine what "public service" means for purposes of loan forgiveness.

The Public ...Read more

In every election, the voters choose a candidate to do a job. In some races, they also have an opportunity to send a message.

Sometimes, in a change election, voters pass over the best person for the job in favor of making a statement. Although she certainly wasn't "the most qualified person ever to run for president," former Sen. and ...Read more

Standing in the restored longleaf pine forest of the Nokuse Preserve in northwest Florida, I learned that it borders Eglin Air Force Base. At first glance it felt insignificant, but I soon understood that their close proximity was strategic and collaborative. In the middle of a government shutdown, it is a great reminder that government ...Read more

In America, we have choices. You make the good choice, you get the positive outcome. You make the bad choice, you get the negative outcome.

Social workers talk that way, spitting phrases like "bad choices," "negative outcomes" and "accessing services."

In general, if you make the bad choice, you get the negative outcome, and then you have to...Read more

The sound you heard was windows being smashed at the East Wing.

The sound you did not hear was questions from officials paid to monitor what happens to a National Heritage Site. The White House is owned by the American people, not any current inhabitant. It's true that other presidents have made changes to the beloved building, but none ...Read more

What does a parent do with a child who stubbornly refuses to follow the rules every day?

You could do worse than set up a daily meeting, say, about 6 p.m. "to hear about how the day went."

It's an ordinary step for a mother or father to take, but an absolutely extraordinary one for a federal district judge to mandate, particularly when the ...Read more

As the United States government shutdown marks its fifth week, approaching the record 35-day shutdown set back in 2018-19, unleashing a worsening cascade of hardship, one explanation for the shutdown comes from long-time Republican strategist turned Never Trump activist Stuart Stevens of the Lincoln Project, speaking on the Democracy Now! news...Read more

Believe me when I tell you Washington is going through stages of grief at the sudden demolition of the White House East Wing.

The wreckage looks like a crime scene, with President Donald Trump's thumbprints on it. He didn't ask or tell people, he just destroyed a sacred structure that sang of American history. Vintage Trump.

The mood of the ...Read more

Texas: What the Hell? The Lone Star State's government, a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, solidified its ranking this year as America's number one innovator of really bad public policies.

Branching out from their usual corrupt collusion with Big Oil, industrial polluters and other profiteering hucksters, the governor and top lawmakers came...Read more

Donald Trump's sudden demolition of the White House's East Wing may have been ugly, but it sure is a metaphor. It's hard to pinpoint the most stomach-turning aspect of the razing, though Americans, who disapprove of it by 53% to 23% according to a new YouGov America poll, have multiple aspects to choose from.

There's the visual of a major ...Read more

There's something bonkers in the hard left's hysteria over Bari Weiss becoming editor-in-chief of CBS News. A psych eval comes toward the end.

John Oliver recently delivered an unhinged tirade against Weiss as a right-wing tool of MAGA. Oliver was his usual self -- frantic hands, googly eyes and a rapid-fire string of quips that seldom rose ...Read more

On April 23, President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at narrowing civil rights protections and directing federal agencies to roll back the use of the disparate impact standard in "all contexts to the maximum degree," including across housing, lending, employment, education and health care. The order represents a major reversal ...Read more

What do you say about a guy who is demanding that his current legal team pay his old legal team -- one and the same -- for getting him out on the biggest technicality of all time? And he offers to give your and my money to his favorite charity -- or maybe the ballroom ...

Donald Trump is demanding that the Department of Justice (that's his ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstrators marched on Saturday through the streets of thousands of American cities, to expose general opposition to the ruling Republican Party and to express outrage over their various policies.

Like its predecessors, this effort will have zero effect.

Performative protests like "No Kings," ...Read more

I would not make the trip by myself, but I also would not pass up the opportunity. I texted my sister Erica, who lives on the West Coast, "How do you feel about Montana?"

Let me back up. When I started writing about conservationists protecting our American landscapes, I knew travel was part of the package. I enjoyed walk-and-talk interviews in ...Read more

When I worked as a reporter, I wouldn't join a political party or sign a petition. I was an "unenrolled" voter. I wouldn't have a bumper sticker on my truck. I never donated to any candidate. I didn't attend marches or protests unless an editor sent me. It's not a big deal. It's just the job.

I'm a newspaper columnist now, and my opinion is ...Read more