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In 2008, Madeline "Kara" Neumann, age 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no longer talk while suffering terrible stomach pains. Yet her adults still wouldn't take her to a doctor. A Wisconsin jury convicted the mother of ...Read more

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to end the constitutionally guaranteed right to birthright citizenship. The American Civil Liberties Union and our partners swiftly sued to block that cruel and lawless action, as did other groups of plaintiffs around the country.

The Trump administration ...Read more

In June, the court found, discriminatory "roving patrols" of ICE agents terrorized Los Angeles and its residents, targeting not those who had committed crimes (remember those promises), but anyone who looked Hispanic or spoke Spanish or was hanging out in Hispanic neighborhoods where men find jobs, at car washes and at Home Depot parking lots....Read more

Political opinions are like posteriors; with a few exceptions, everyone has one. And those opinions, like what comes out of rear ends, frequently look and smell terrible, the more so after the passage of time.

Political opinions are the most dangerous kind of opinions, more so than almost any other kind of subjective thought. Political opinions...Read more

"To the moon, Alice!"

That was how fictional television character Ralph Kramden used to threaten his wife, Alice, on the old "Honeymooners" TV show.

He never actually hit her. That wouldn't have been funny, not if he hit her really hard, anyway. Threatening to hit her was hilarious, however.

You know what they say, different times, ...Read more

The Democratic Party's low approval ratings have sent a stern message to its members. But what is it? Is it a failure to loudly fight an unpopular president on every matter? Is it anger over the party's previous obsession with boutique causes -- transgender rights, for instance -- while downplaying broad economic concerns? Or is it the lack of...Read more

The pictures are almost too painful to look at: the starving children and their desperate mothers, the frail and emaciated hostages, the memories of the bodies on Oct. 7.

And for those who have loved Israel, have planted our trees as children and celebrated Israel's victories as adults, there is the pain of seeing the world, including its ...Read more

Donald Trump's conquering of the country is complete. The blows he's inflicted on American democracy will take a lifetime to heal.

The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics chief, a woman, for a poor jobs and growth report. That is a death knell -- or a deep chill -- for honest government officials.

He shut the Corporation for ...Read more

In 2018 my newspaper died. Well, actually, the emaciated carcass of the Austin American Statesman still had a feeble pulse. But its journalistic voice and soul were gone, stripped out by the notorious financial predators of Gannett, the huge media conglomerate that had recently bought the paper.

Happily, though, the Statesman has made a near-...Read more

That Gazans subsist in misery is indisputable, and Benjamin Netanyahu's apparent decision to dispute it is incomprehensible. It's dishonest, and it undermines Israel's government's credibility. Those who maintain that Israel, despite the impossible position in which Hamas' genocidal invasion has put it, must nevertheless do all it reasonably can...Read more

How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney "great genes" controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington.

Donald Trump's sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey Epstein, is something I don't want to think about. Not far...Read more

As announced in a letter from the Department of Defense, the Trump administration plans to use Fort Dix, the U.S. Army post that is part of the triservice Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, to detain immigrants. The South Jersey military base will hold up to 3,000 beds for use by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

With this expansion to Fort...Read more

The National Institutes of Health -- the world's largest public funder of biomedical research -- began an ideological purge of its grants in February. Without warning, hundreds of research projects were abruptly canceled.

The NIH targeted research that was purportedly connected to "gender identity" and "diversity, equity, and inclusion," or ...Read more

On military bases across the globe, books are disappearing from shelves. Posters of historical figures, such as Frida Kahlo, are being removed from walls. Black History Month celebrations are being canceled.

This rampant censorship is the result of the Department of Defense's new policies banning books, classroom discussions, events and ...Read more