The speed and seriousness with which Donald Trump is shaking up Washington has everyone's head spinning. If the president called me and asked my advice how he should explain to the American people what he is doing, I would say he should tell every American to read our Declaration of ...

"I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire (1694-1778) When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, he included in it a list of the colonists' grievances with the British government. Notably absent were any complaints about ...

WASHINGTON — Last week, audience members loudly booed Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The crowd was telling the Second Couple: You don't belong on our turf. Ah, but there's a new sheriff at the opera. President Donald Trump ...

The United States offers foreign nationals numerous uncomplicated pathways for lawful entry and extended residency. While these foreigners reside in the United States, they receive all of its benefits, ones which are typically unavailable or denied in their home countries: fundamental rights ...

Chuck Schumer is right, and James Carville is right. They don't want the Democratic Party getting pulled into MAGA's cyclone of ruinous policy. To get to safety, they are reining in the left flank for whom the fight is all. The hotheads don't recognize that bad timing loses battles. Senate ...

Now they tell us. "We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives." So reads the headline on Princeton professor Zeynep Tufekci's March 16 article in The New York Times. The event was, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bad misleading came from scientists who purposefully ...