When Black women rapidly disappear from the workforce, we are faced with more than a concerning statistic; their loss is a warning for where the country is headed.

Black women are the only population to experience a rise in unemployment in the last three months with rates spiking above 6%, twice the rate for white workers. Additionally, this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Joe and Arline Halper loved their house, their neighborhood and their lifestyle in Pacific Palisades, and the plan was to stay there indefinitely.

Even as Joe hit 95 and Arline approached 89, neither of them thought of themselves as old, and Arline had no appetite for moving to what she called an age-specific setting.

Such as a ...Read more

The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act puts so many people at risk of losing their health insurance and food assistance, it’s hard to focus on other fires set by the new law. And yet — there’s one crucial conflagration I hope the state of California will fight.

The budget bill contains multiple changes in federal student ...Read more

Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, a lawless president is solidifying his law enforcement powers to create something most Americans didn’t vote for and don’t want: a police state increasingly robbing residents of their rights and due process.

Unaccountable, masked immigration agents, many in plainclothes, are arresting farm ...Read more

It’s not a good look for science when the most hyped, heavily marketed, and supposedly transformative discoveries are later discredited.

Among the more spectacular cases were claims that a team of scientists had discovered fossilized Martian life in a meteorite, and that spores found in amber and salt crystals had been revived after lying ...Read more

Recently, my living room transformed into a Broadway stage. With my wife, kids, and I singing along to the Hamilton soundtrack, conversations inevitably spiraled from lyrics about revolution and ambition into discussions about today’s news.

My daughter, home from summer camp and sporting a growing curiosity about history, became my sounding ...Read more

Before New York City opens government-run grocery stores, it should explore how the idea worked in Kansas City.

Socialist Zohran Mamdani remains the favorite to become NYC’s next mayor. He has campaigned aggressively against high costs. His website asserts that his plans for government intervention “will lower costs and make life easier.�...Read more

Progressives reflexively denounce tax cuts and spending cuts as “giveaways to the wealthy” or “stealing from the poor.”

So, take it with a grain of salt when House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., rails against the newly enacted One Big Beautiful Bill for 8 hours and 44 minutes straight. Or when Senate Minority Leader Chuck ...Read more

If nations can suffer from cognitive dissonance just as individuals can, it’s easy to see why we elected Donald Trump.

A good place to start thinking about this is football:

As I often do in late summer, I was considering chronic traumatic encephalopathy when a shooting spree in Manhattan left four dead and a fifth critically injured. The ...Read more

Housing affordability is a key issue for the American consumer on which the Trump administration has done nothing useful. From tariffs on construction material to higher budget deficits driving up interest rates to deporting building trades workers, virtually every policy lever is being thrown in an anti-supply direction.

At the same time, good...Read more

The Federal Reserve resisted pressure from the White House last week and left its policy rate unchanged. It was the right decision. As Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged, the case for a cut was a bit stronger this time than in June — and two of the Fed’s policymakers, in rare dissents, voted to lower the rate by a quarter-point. For now, ...Read more

In the media, the U.S. Federal Reserve is under siege. President Donald Trump constantly threatens to fire Chair Jerome Powell. Others hurl criticism in hopes of becoming Powell’s successor. Two Fed governors opposed last week’s decision to hold interest rates steady, the first multiple dissent since 1993.

Don’t be fooled by the drama. In...Read more

Having prevailed in mid-July on party-line congressional votes to slash foreign assistance and zero-out public broadcasting, senior Trump administration officials immediately signaled intent to seek still more “rescissions” of money already appropriated for the current fiscal year. Even more provocatively, they are discussing plans to engage...Read more

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was living the dream.

Shortly after her 20th birthday, Hicks was in a serious car accident and prescribed opioids for the resulting pain. But the ...Read more

On Friday, Donald Trump followed up a concerning jobs report with massive new global tariffs, driving markets down and once more raising prices on consumers for no reason after weeks of supposed trade negotiations. Like with his first round of import duties, announced in the Rose Garden on his ludicrous April 2 “Liberation Day,” these ...Read more

If you’re still looking for someone to blame for Donald Trump’s 2024 reelection, don’t just look at the usual suspects — the MAGA die-hards, the QAnon crowd or your uncle screaming at Fox News. Consider the bros at your local gym’s squat rack, the Discord server or the gaming lounge who suddenly swung right— or, better yet, consider ...Read more

Even before the Trump administration’s headline-grabbing assaults on public institutions, our democracy was showing alarming signs of distress. A 2023 Brookings Institution report found that the United States “is experiencing two major forms of democratic erosion in its governing institutions: election manipulation and executive overreach.�...Read more

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended to a Black woman who had once been enslaved.

Abraham Lincoln didn’t publicize these moments, though. He prioritized them for personal reasons. ...Read more

A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the Islamic Republic.

One of these, signed by 800 domestic and international activists, was issued by Mir Hossein Mousavi, formerly the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq war. Mousavi was also the leader ...Read more

Nations like Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are going to be crucial to the future of the Palestinian people trapped and famished in the Gaza Strip, so it was a positive development last week when those countries collectively called on Hamas to disarm and give up power in Gaza.

This was the first time such a collective declaration has been issued...Read more