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“If liberty means anything at all,” wrote George Orwell, in a preface to Animal Farm, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Generations of students have been taught that lesson. Yet ...Read more

As a minister and a rabbi, we write to decry the 2026 House Farm Bill that was sent to the Senate in late May. The bill, as written, is cruel and will increase suffering.

It threatens to push even more farmers out of ...Read more

This July 4, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that throws off the yoke of a divinely appointed ruler. But President Donald Trump is exploiting this ...Read more

When Washington debates international alliances, the conversation usually sounds like a corporate ledger sheet. Critics often treat the North Atlantic Treaty Organization like a bad business transaction, complaining that ...Read more

In congressional races across the country, a new crop of super PACs is taking to the air with millions of dollars worth of advertisements to sway voters.

"President Trump said it best, 'Celeste Maloy will never let you ...Read more

I was seated onstage at Grand Valley State University’s commencement when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaned into the microphone and reframed the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in six words.

“You...Read more

What does it mean to be an American in 2026? Two distinctly and significantly different visions showed themselves in recent days.

On the South Side of Chicago, there was the long-awaited opening of the Obama Presidential ...Read more

Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right populist backed by Donald Trump, will be Colombia’s next president after narrowly defeating leftist Iván Cepeda in a runoff election on Sunday.

The criminal defense lawyer who cast...Read more

Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential election, likely sweeping aside Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement and realigning Bogota with the US.

De ...Read more

Conservative attorney Abelardo de la Espriella led Colombia’s presidential runoff as early results came in Sunday, putting him in a strong position to sweep aside Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement and align Bogota with ...Read more

Donald Trump has long avoided political damage for his own party from repeated allegations of graft and conflicts of interest. In this year’s midterm elections, Democrats are betting that they can finally exact a price. ...Read more

Colombians are voting in one of the most polarized elections in the nation’s history, with the economic model, the war on drugs and relations with the US all hanging in the balance.

Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la ...Read more

The stories would stop any parent cold: Florida middle schooler Colton Remsburg, who was killed by a pickup truck while out buying flowers for his mom. California 13-year-old Angel Roman Mendoza Lopez, struck by a car ...Read more

Think the Supreme Court is hopelessly divided? As it turns out, there is an issue that can produce unanimity among the justices: Using marijuana every other day isn’t a sufficient reason for the government to deprive ...Read more

Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore.

The clearest indicator arrived this spring, when farm bankruptcies reached their highest level in six years. For many Americans, ...Read more

When “data centers” and “climate change” are in the same sentence, it’s usually about how the former are fueling the latter with their thirst for energy. But the latter can also make life expensively miserable ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Questions over their records on immigration, accepting corporate PAC money and fraud dominated the first Democratic debate in the U.S. Senate race between Rep. Angie Craig and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on ...Read more

Colombia’s outgoing leftist leader criticized Donald Trump a day before a runoff election in the Andean nation that pits his preferred successor against a security hardliner endorsed by the U.S. president.

Gustavo Petro...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Congressional candidate Luther Campbell offered a new explanation on Friday for why he wasn’t at this week’s candidate forum featuring all the other Democrats running in the 20th Congressional...Read more