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The Supreme Court has just restored a woman's ability to obtain the abortion pill by mail without first seeing a medical provider, at least for now. A lower court had tried to tighten that easy access by requiring patients to consult with a licensed clinician in person before acquiring the drug, mifepristone.

The Charlotte Lozier Institute is...Read more

What distinguishes us from a monarchy? The fact that all power is not lodged in one man or one department. The fact that no one is above the law. Even the president, even one like Donald Trump, who believes in extensive Executive Power, must follow the decisions of the courts, just as judicial review limits Congress to actions that are within ...Read more

When the history of this benighted era is written, people will wonder about the madman president. They will ask what we did to try to resist his rampages against our federal government.

For Donald J. Trump, "mad" can be taken in both ways.

First, his state of mind is very angry, all the time: at allies, at journalists, at Republicans who ...Read more

Years ago, Ray Charles sang: "Them that's got is them that gets, and I ain't got nothin' yet."

Millions of workaday Americans today are wailing that blues refrain, thanks to price increases caused by President Donald Trump's slap-happy tariff policy. He gloated that by imposing import levies of $166 billion on foreign companies, they would be ...Read more

In his famous poem "The Second Coming," William Butler Yeats ruminated about what happens when "the center cannot hold," and "things fall apart." Things have well and truly fallen apart in America and the collapse of the political center is both a cause and a symptom. For those of us who are Democrats, the disintegration of a large, ...Read more

Tucker Carlson's problem, it would seem, is that what he says doesn't matter, because he has a long history of not saying what he thinks. True, he once starred at Fox News, and even now his followers on social media number in the millions. But he's shifted into crackpot conspiracies and turning on Donald Trump. Anything for an audience.

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What a happy coincidence for House Republicans that the Supreme Court's conservative bloc found an excuse to help preserve their party's congressional majority, just in time for the 2026 midterm elections. Without the timely intervention of the right-wing justices, a Democratic wave loomed over the White House and Capitol Hill -- which ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced the death of another person in its custody -- the 17th person so far in 2026. Deaths inside of immigration detention centers are rising and now occur at a rate of roughly one every six days. Since the start of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign, more than 40 people have ...Read more

It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor, Janet Mills, that she had the best chance of defeating Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Maybe so, but she will never get that chance. Her campaign never took off. The oyster farmer, Jordan Platner, ...Read more

Thirty years and 30 pounds ago, Workman published "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids," my bestselling entry in the Gen X manifesto genre. I argued in snotty prose and spiky scratchboard cartoons that Americans born in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a set of challenges that made us the first generation of the 20th century doomed to face downward ...Read more

Spring is filled with dreams of locally grown food. Last weekend, my family volunteered for our local community garden, helping get beds ready and putting tomato and pepper plants in the ground. At home, we planted zinnias and sunflowers. My family also signed up for shares of Community Supported Agriculture from our local farmer.

I love this ...Read more

The kid behind the counter, a kid with strong black dreads fountaining out of the top of his visor, says "That'll be $6.42."

I give him my debit card.

I went to bed last night with $0.65 in my checking account, but this column pays by the quarter, and it's the end of the month. Social Security, pension and investment income are on the way.

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Some years ago, I was president of an organization called the Association of Opinion Journalists. Every year we would run a convention in a different city and end it with a celebration in the hotel's ballroom space. Our speaker on that closing night was usually some well-known political opinionator.

Members often talked about inviting the ...Read more

When I was working my way through law school as a bartender, we used to "86" drinkers who caused trouble. The term has been around that long. It certainly didn't mean we meant to kill a problem drinker. It meant we cut him off -- that is, stopped serving him drinks -- or if he was really out of control, asked the bouncer to escort him out.

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The king came to town for tea, dinner and a little chat with Congress and the president. By the time you read this, Charles III's state visit may be a little piece of history.

The "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom could undergo a stress test.

For one thing, Charles is probably horrified and mystified at ...Read more

"Mingy" is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today's corporate bosses.

Take mingy CEOs of multibillion-dollar powerhouses like Amazon and 7-Eleven. They've been refusing to accommodate even the simplest needs of -- get this -- their pregnant employees.

As The New York Times reports, ...Read more

For Americans who have watched FBI Director Kash Patel slosh beer with the U.S. Olympic hockey team, proclaim that the FBI had Charlie Kirk's murderer in custody only to have to say "Never mind," and stand glassy-eyed at press conferences looking somewhere between an unhappy participant in a police line-up and an anesthetized deer in ...Read more