ColumnistsTrump’s Great American State Fair reveals how he has turned the Semiquincentennial into a celebration of himselfAmerican values still shine in warmth toward visiting World Cup teams and their fans, and local July Fourth events.Trudy Rubin | Columnist The Ben Franklin Bridge turns 100. Don’t wait to walk it like I did.Stephanie Farr | Columnist Another Jan. 6 coup? Trump is screaming it out loud. | Will Bunch NewsletterWill Bunch | Columnist Five wacky things I saw on the Nic Cage bar crawlStephanie Farr | Columnist Assailed by right and left, the Peace Corps continues to make an apolitical differenceJonathan Zimmerman | Columnist AdvertisementTrump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist DACA and TPS recipients pump billions into the U.S. economy. Trump wants them gone anyway.While the human impact of President Trump’s immigration policies is immeasurable, the economic damage is clear.Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist I’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist In a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist Failure of Iran war reveals Trump’s inability to deal with America’s security needsThe president's ego-based foreign policy is making the U.S. more vulnerable to our enemies at home and overseas.Trudy Rubin | Columnist Shining the spotlight on America’s Black Revolutionary Era icons | ShackamaxonPlus: The push to legalize accessory dwelling units and the fate of so-called skill games.Daniel Pearson | Columnist The Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist Trump’s bloated claims about his Iran deal can’t hide his failureThe memorandum signed with Tehran kicks nuclear negotiations down the road and leaves Iran empowered over the Strait of Hormuz.Trudy Rubin | Columnist Platner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist JD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist As a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist Elon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist Why we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist Trump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist See more storiesAdvertisement
Trump’s Great American State Fair reveals how he has turned the Semiquincentennial into a celebration of himselfAmerican values still shine in warmth toward visiting World Cup teams and their fans, and local July Fourth events.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Trump’s Great American State Fair reveals how he has turned the Semiquincentennial into a celebration of himselfAmerican values still shine in warmth toward visiting World Cup teams and their fans, and local July Fourth events.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Assailed by right and left, the Peace Corps continues to make an apolitical differenceJonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Assailed by right and left, the Peace Corps continues to make an apolitical differenceJonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Trump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
Trump’s Reflecting Pool debacle mirrors what’s ailing AmericaAmericans want the war with Iran to be over, but Trump is more concerned with putting a Mar-a-Lago-esque stamp on the nation’s capital.Jenice Armstrong | Columnist
DACA and TPS recipients pump billions into the U.S. economy. Trump wants them gone anyway.While the human impact of President Trump’s immigration policies is immeasurable, the economic damage is clear.Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist
DACA and TPS recipients pump billions into the U.S. economy. Trump wants them gone anyway.While the human impact of President Trump’s immigration policies is immeasurable, the economic damage is clear.Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist
America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist
America at 250: 50-year sentences for progressive protesters. Freedom for millionaires.The shocking 50-to-100-year prison sentences to leftist Texas protesters are more fascism than true criminal justice.Will Bunch | Columnist
I’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
I’ve seen struggles for democracy around the world. It’s painful to see that battle come home.For decades I’ve reported on the struggles of other countries to achieve the kind of free elections that most Americans have taken for granted. The U.S. was a lodestar. That's all changed.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
In a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist
In a dark 2026, a Summer of Love breaks out | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, why is Washington, D.C. still occupied by troops?Will Bunch | Columnist
Failure of Iran war reveals Trump’s inability to deal with America’s security needsThe president's ego-based foreign policy is making the U.S. more vulnerable to our enemies at home and overseas.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Failure of Iran war reveals Trump’s inability to deal with America’s security needsThe president's ego-based foreign policy is making the U.S. more vulnerable to our enemies at home and overseas.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Shining the spotlight on America’s Black Revolutionary Era icons | ShackamaxonPlus: The push to legalize accessory dwelling units and the fate of so-called skill games.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
Shining the spotlight on America’s Black Revolutionary Era icons | ShackamaxonPlus: The push to legalize accessory dwelling units and the fate of so-called skill games.Daniel Pearson | Columnist
The Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist
The Minneapolis 15 indictments are meant to shut you upAn outrageous federal conspiracy case against 15 anti-ICE protesters in Minnesota really seeks to silence all dissent.Will Bunch | Columnist
Trump’s bloated claims about his Iran deal can’t hide his failureThe memorandum signed with Tehran kicks nuclear negotiations down the road and leaves Iran empowered over the Strait of Hormuz.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Trump’s bloated claims about his Iran deal can’t hide his failureThe memorandum signed with Tehran kicks nuclear negotiations down the road and leaves Iran empowered over the Strait of Hormuz.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Platner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Platner, Fetterman, and the myth of the working-class politicianA recent feud between Graham Platner and John Fetterman underscores the political differences between the two men. But Jonathan Zimmerman writes that they have one important thing in common.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
JD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist
JD Vance can never become president | Will Bunch NewsletterPlus, how the 14th Amendment saved U.S. men’s soccer.Will Bunch | Columnist
As a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist
As a Black voter, Graham Platner’s ethics don’t bother me — my people can’t afford to wait for a perfect candidateA series of recent disclosures exposed the dark side of the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine. But they were not enough to cost him in the primary election — and that’s a good thing.Solomon Jones | Columnist
Elon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist
Elon Musk egged on a race riot, then became a trillionaire. What are we even doing?Musk’s climb to obscene, undeserved wealth while wrecking a civil society is the essence of our broken century.Will Bunch | Columnist
Why we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Why we should listen to Robert Coles — and to each otherThe influential psychologist spent his life listening to children and their parents, particularly during moments of trauma or crisis. And he urged the rest of us to listen, too.Jonathan Zimmerman | Columnist
Trump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
Trump could be a winner on Ukraine if he recognized Kyiv’s stunning turnaround of the warUkraine’s drone war has put Russia on the back foot, but Kyiv needs U.S. interceptors to stop Putin’s ballistic missile attacks.Trudy Rubin | Columnist
