1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (617+ words) America spends an extraordinary amount of time debating the top 1% — the billionaires, corporate CEOs and hedge fund managers — and the widening gap between the rich and everyone else. It is an important conversation in a nation that prizes both opportunity…...

17+ hour, 51+ min ago  (435+ words) What a show, huh? Big-name corporations went all out this July 4th with a patriotic ad blitz professing their devotion to America's democracy. But it amounted to a Firecracker of Hypocrisy, for many of these showboat patriots have been backroom funders…...

23+ hour, 21+ min ago  (824+ words) The homeless encampment rapidly spreading across 12 blocks along the West Side of Manhattan from the Intrepid Museum to the Javits Center is a red flag to New Yorkers in every part of the city that if you own anything, the…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (700+ words) New York City has put out a welcome mat for illegal immigrants, practically inviting them to join in Mayor Zohran Mamdani's "collective warmth" of socialism. There's just one problem: The city needs your tax dollars to pay for it. Last…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (678+ words) When the Center for American Progress held an event last month to highlight the release of its report on religious liberty in the United States, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) was the keynote speaker. "Authoritarianism seeks to compel, seeks to repress,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (340+ words) "I cannot tell a lie," young George Washington supposedly told his father when asked if he'd cut down a cherry tree. That there was no tree and George never said those words hasn't impeded the myth that holds otherwise, popularized…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (670+ words) During a press conference following his July 7 meeting with Turkey's President Recep Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump calmly raised a military technology issue that eight years ago triggered a major NATO alliance political quarrel. Trump told the press gaggle his administration…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (509+ words) What garbage! To characterize either Israel or Ukraine as a democracy, much less an exemplar of liberty, is grotesque. But that's only part of the story. The problem for Zionists and their defenders is that Israel also occupies Gaza (2.1 million…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (270+ words) Now that we've completed our celebration of America's 250th birthday, it's time to prepare for the 300th — the tricentennial. I will not live to see it, but I hope the nation will. Birthright citizenship is a constitutive part of this democratic philosophy....

6+ day, 1+ hour ago  (725+ words) It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating a replacement. It's the process that…...