Trump keeps flip-flopping on abortion. American women are so over it.
LZ Granderson A friend of mine is having problems with her ex. Charismatic, rich and famous, and also can’t commit. Back in 1999, when he was first infatuated... Read more.
Sean Reid prioritizes clean and affordable transportation options
Sean Reid My campaign for state representative of West Lynn and Nahant is based on walking through the neighborhoods of these communities and listening to the concerns... Read more.
Casual extremism and how language in the middle enables the extremes
Tony McAleer When I was a white supremacist who had infiltrated the Canadian military reserves, an officer who had spent two tours of Northern Ireland embedded in... Read more.
Congress must get serious about its capacity or cede power to courts
Taylor J. Swift The Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down a cornerstone of administrative law known as the Chevron doctrine represents a seismic shift... Read more.
Pop culture’s political influence, from Rock the Vote To TikTok
F. Willis Johnson In 1992, a young Bill Clinton tried to connect with Generation X by joking around and soulfully playing the sax on “The Arsenio Hall Show.”... Read more.
Bizarre raw-milk trend is putting kids at risk
Lisa Jarvis If there’s one thing that wasn’t on my bingo card for 2024, it was this: that amid a national outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows, sales of raw... Read more.
The COVID lab-leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health
Michael Hiltzik Here’s an indisputable fact about the theory that COVID originated in a laboratory: Most Americans believe it to be true. That’s important for... Read more.
Shribman: Surging into Chicago
David M. Shribman The emphasis the two major presidential campaigns are putting on swing states understates the playing field for the 2024 election. It’s the... Read more.
Judge in Elon Musk lawsuits is still conflicted
Noah Feldman Elon Musk’s lawyers have filed two lawsuits on behalf of X (formerly Twitter) in a federal district court in Texas. As of 2023, the judge in that... Read more.
China’s AI video rush is a wake-up call for the world
Catherine Thorbecke Chinese tech companies are racing ahead with artificial-intelligence tools that can turn text into short videos. The public release of a handful... Read more.