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Generosity is shocking. Especially when it’s to strangers.

That was my first thought upon hearing of the Dell family donation of $6.25 billion to fund Trump Accounts. I had other thoughts too. We’ll get to those.

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Few states so self-righteously proclaim their commitment to helping minorities like California does. Gov. Gavin Newsom rarely misses an opportunity to assert his solidarity with people of color, proclaiming in 2022 that �...Read more

You could field a 16-inch softball league with the celebrities who’ve threatened to leave the U.S. if their presidential pick wasn’t elected in recent years.

What’s more striking today is that it isn’t only the ...Read more

It’s time for all Americans – especially my Washington press corps colleagues – to respect the wishes of all who voted to elect Donald Trump our president by finally being willing to take him at his word.

So it’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania's federal lawmakers bought and sold stocks or other securities collectively worth between $19.8 million and $58.8 million this year as Congress inches toward a potential vote on banning stock ...Read more

EDITOR’S NOTE: Features coordinator Barbara Ellis takes a side in the “real vs. fake” Christmas tree debate. Look for the counterpoint by Editorial Page editor Megan Schrader, slugged HOME-TREES-DEBATE-REAL:DP.

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Over the past few months, a troubling pattern has emerged across America’s major cities. As President Donald Trump’s administration dispatches federal agents and National Guard troops to jurisdictions — often over ...Read more

The prevailing narrative about the conspicuous absence of Gen Z from the No Kings protests is a classic case of facile pop psychology masquerading as political insight.

According to this account, young people are "...Read more

The holidays are a time for joy and celebration—but amid the whirlwind of parties, travel and traditions, it’s easy to overlook those who count on us and play a vital role in our families: our animal companions.

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Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast won Chile’s presidency by a landslide Sunday, harnessing voter anger over crime and migration to drive the country into its most dramatic rightward shift in decades.

With nearly 100...Read more

Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast was decisively elected Chile’s president Sunday, driven by growing fears of crime and uncontrolled migration — making it the latest Latin America nation to take a hard turn to the ...Read more

NEW YORK — In dimly lit Italian restaurants, boisterous Irish pubs, and the vintage sprawling ballroom atop Rockefeller Center, candidates running for Congress in Philadelphia spent a busy weekend in New York trying to ...Read more

When someone tells you that they are struggling, it is generally a good rule of thumb to take them seriously. So it was not the best political move for President Donald Trump to call the affordability issue a “hoax.” ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s final elections of 2025 delivered a resounding rebuke to Republicans, with Democratic candidates outperforming President Donald Trump’s 2024 margins by double digits. The swing gives...Read more

President Donald Trump wants a very different kind of CNN if the cable news channel's parent Warner Bros. Discovery changes hands.

As details emerge in the battle between Netflix and Paramount over control of the historic...Read more

To say the U.S. Senate has grown dysfunctional is like suggesting water is wet or the nighttime sky is dark.

The institution that fancies itself "the world's greatest deliberative body" is supposed to serve as a cooling ...Read more

In the realm of horror, it was hard to beat the headlines last February that you were carrying around the equivalent of a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics in your brain. The findings, reported in Nature Medicine, ...Read more

As the European Union ages, it’s increasingly dependent on migration to sustain its economies. Unfortunately, the bloc’s inability to manage this influx is warping its politics. Unless it can build a better system — ...Read more

A group of 19 states sued the Trump administration to block a $100,000 fee for any new applications for H-1B visas, which allow employers in the U.S. to hire skilled foreign workers.

The mostly Democrat-led states argue ...Read more

They clearly wanted attention and attention is what they got. Eight students at Branham High School in San Jose, Calif. posted photos of themselves on social media forming a human swastika -- and lest there be any doubt,...Read more