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Immigration and Customs Enforcement recently announced the death of another person in its custody -- the 17th person so far in 2026. Deaths inside of immigration detention centers are rising and now occur at a rate of roughly one every six days. Since the start of President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign, more than 40 people have ...Read more

It was the 78 year-old two-term Governor against a 41-year-old oyster farmer who has never held office. Chuck Schumer convinced the Governor, Janet Mills, that she had the best chance of defeating Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Maybe so, but she will never get that chance. Her campaign never took off. The oyster farmer, Jordan Platner, ...Read more

Thirty years and 30 pounds ago, Workman published "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids," my bestselling entry in the Gen X manifesto genre. I argued in snotty prose and spiky scratchboard cartoons that Americans born in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a set of challenges that made us the first generation of the 20th century doomed to face downward ...Read more

Spring is filled with dreams of locally grown food. Last weekend, my family volunteered for our local community garden, helping get beds ready and putting tomato and pepper plants in the ground. At home, we planted zinnias and sunflowers. My family also signed up for shares of Community Supported Agriculture from our local farmer.

I love this ...Read more

The kid behind the counter, a kid with strong black dreads fountaining out of the top of his visor, says "That'll be $6.42."

I give him my debit card.

I went to bed last night with $0.65 in my checking account, but this column pays by the quarter, and it's the end of the month. Social Security, pension and investment income are on the way.

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Some years ago, I was president of an organization called the Association of Opinion Journalists. Every year we would run a convention in a different city and end it with a celebration in the hotel's ballroom space. Our speaker on that closing night was usually some well-known political opinionator.

Members often talked about inviting the ...Read more

When I was working my way through law school as a bartender, we used to "86" drinkers who caused trouble. The term has been around that long. It certainly didn't mean we meant to kill a problem drinker. It meant we cut him off -- that is, stopped serving him drinks -- or if he was really out of control, asked the bouncer to escort him out.

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The king came to town for tea, dinner and a little chat with Congress and the president. By the time you read this, Charles III's state visit may be a little piece of history.

The "special relationship" between the United States and the United Kingdom could undergo a stress test.

For one thing, Charles is probably horrified and mystified at ...Read more

"Mingy" is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today's corporate bosses.

Take mingy CEOs of multibillion-dollar powerhouses like Amazon and 7-Eleven. They've been refusing to accommodate even the simplest needs of -- get this -- their pregnant employees.

As The New York Times reports, ...Read more

For Americans who have watched FBI Director Kash Patel slosh beer with the U.S. Olympic hockey team, proclaim that the FBI had Charlie Kirk's murderer in custody only to have to say "Never mind," and stand glassy-eyed at press conferences looking somewhere between an unhappy participant in a police line-up and an anesthetized deer in ...Read more

"Shots Fired at Correspondents' Dinner" dominated TV headlines following the gun attack at the Washington Hilton. Correction: Shots were not fired at the dinner but in the corridor outside. That's where security had pinned the accused gunman, Cole Tomas Allen, on his stomach and handcuffed.

Some journalists like to overdramatize everything, ...Read more

From Los Angeles to New Jersey, many of the United States' host cities for the 2026 World Cup are home to large immigrant communities. Though this year's slogan is "Football Unites the World," these communities now live in daily fear of racial profiling, inhumane detention, separation from loved ones and summary deportation because of ...Read more

These are troubling times for President Donald Trump. His poll numbers are in the toilet. The country doesn't trust him with the economy and doesn't support him on what was his favorite issue, immigration. The war he started is not going well and is not popular. He needs to "win" it and make it be over and the Iranians are not cooperating. ...Read more

The Left is extreme, the Right is extreme. In the middle lies truth and reason.

None of this is true -- but it is taken for granted, even by many of those on the Left and the Right. The Left is right about some things, as is the Right, and centrists are frequently, perhaps usually, proven wrong. But moderates control news and entertainment ...Read more

Somebody told me that journalism is dead. It is true that the industry has been struggling since the dawn of the internet and artificial intelligence seems to be poised to finish it off, but it's not dead. Perhaps this is our opportunity to see it meaningfully evolve.

Thanks to the internet, we have taught an entire population to read for ...Read more