The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

1/5: In about 1994, I went through a phase when I was enamored with the writing of Wallace Stegner. I loved Angle of Repose, and then quickly followed it by reading The Spectator Bird and Crossing to ...

4/5: Excellent history of the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. The author carefully examines the many factors that contributed to the Nazi rise, including the history of Prussian militarism, a long ...

4/5: Excellent, comprehensive biography of the civil rights activist and long-time Congressman. Like many, I was familiar with Lewis's involvement in the civil rights struggle as a young man, but had ...

The mistakes, miscommunications and flip-flops are piling up after an early run defined by a flood of major policy changes that were rolled out at breakneck speed.

1/5: This book made it onto my "to-read" list because it has been marketed (and represented in reviews) as a bighearted story about a college baseball player who, at the height of his stardom, inexpli...

To avoid retribution, big firms agreed to provide free legal services for uncontroversial causes. To the White House, that could mean negotiating trade deals — or even defending the president and his ...

A viral conversation about the near-death of reading by U.S. college students in the iPhone era reveals a threat to democracy.

The end of war and the price of Russian occupation.

Russia sees Trump’s dealmaking as a can’t-lose proposition.

We already know what happens when great powers feel entitled to their zones of control, and the strong try to dominate the weak.

His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.

Staff cuts and disruptions related to the U.S. DOGE Service have officials bracing for a sharp loss of revenue.

Scientists warn the impacts seen in 2024 will be impossible to reverse

4/5: This book was written in the early 1960s, so may seem a bit out of date, but Gilbert Osofsky's excellent social history of New York's Harlem neighborhood still has much to teach us. The book cove...

The trip comes as President Trump looks to secure the Russian leader’s support for a 30-day cease-fire.

But as Ukraine prepares to meet with U.S. officials, Ukrainian soldiers say they are bracing for attacks to take advantage of a pause in U.S. intelligence.