Free Speech for ‘Gay Conversion’
Conversion Therapy Ruling Tests Free Speech Limits Earlier this week, the majority-conservative Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s laws barring therapists... Read more.
Knocking Off Iranian Leaders
Trump’s Iran Strategy in Doubt After Israeli Assassinations of Key Figures Israeli raids have killed another pair of Iranian leaders seen as important to any attempt... Read more.
Avoiding Any Blame in Iran
There’s plenty of boastful propaganda from and for this Trump administration when things look like a military rout against Venezuela’s Nicolás Madura, drug... Read more.
Trump’s War Week Raises Questions About Who Is Really Being “Protected”
War, politics, and rising global tension define a chaotic week for Trump’s America. A whirlwind of a week in Donald Trump’s world has swirled expectations in... Read more.
Firing Kristi Noem … for All the Wrong Reasons
Donald Trump has fired Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary, but seemingly for the wrong reason. The firing followed a contentious Senate committee hearing... Read more.
Deepening Fissures Over Iran
No Vote, No Plan, No Endgame. Deepening fissures underscoring Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to go to war with Iran are evident even as the military story continues... Read more.
Trump’s Iran War: Bombing Without a Plan, Authority, or Endgame
Widespread strikes across 14 Iranian cities, apparent killing of Ayatolla, raise questions about legality, goals, and the true cost of regime change By now, we all... Read more.
Pentagon and AI: A Failure of Values
The dispute between the Pentagon and artificial intelligence developer Anthropic that ended in divorce late yesterday had been portrayed as a tug-of-war over who... Read more.
The Tariff Overstep
The language and arguments in the Supreme Court’s seismic slap down of Donald Trump’s signature tariff declarations are highly technical. But the meaning for... Read more.
Brazen Blast over Free Speech
After citizen rejection of a threatened federal prosecution, what all sides seem to accept is that the very attempt to bring criminal charges against six members... Read more.