They came to MacArthur Park on horseback and in riot gear, their faces covered and their weapons out. They were part of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the California National Guard. They came with more than a dozen …

When a reporter asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation last week, President Trump could not contain himself a moment longer.“Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein?” he said, pushing back against the question. “This guy’s been …

On the Fourth of July, Donald Trump signed his “mega-bill.” The law boosts the dying fossil fuel industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. It invites an additional 470 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by …

In the 19 years my uncle has worked in the health care industry, he’s only missed one day — the day his mother, my grandmother, died. He then helped plan a funeral he couldn’t attend.

The big ugly boondoggle, which our president calls the “Big Beautiful Bill,” is a transfer of resources from the poor to the wealthy, preserving 2017 tax cuts, cutting Medicaid and SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps), imposing new …

As the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives neared passage of President Donald Trump’s beloved — and enormous — “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” my mind raced back as it often does in such debates to memories of the late Linda …

They’re an ever-growing crisis, often underreported and overlooked because they involve a topic – killing oneself – the news media have been reluctant to cover.

The forced resignation of James E. Ryan as president of the University of Virginia at the hands of the Trump administration marks a dangerous precedent for American higher education. The federal government’s ultimatum that Ryan step down as a condition …

A seasoned veteran of Chicago politics once told me that it often takes Democrats a couple of four-year cycles out of office before they can pull their fractious factions together into a winning coalition.

Douglas Turner Ward (1930-2021) wrote a searing play, “Days of Absence,” that imagined life in a small Southern town where all the Black residents disappeared overnight. Predictably, the white townspeople could not walk and chew gum, neither at one time …

Juneteenth came and went last Thursday, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the president of the United States.

As a Black man and as a baby boomer, I have become very concerned for young people of color in our nation.

Dyana Williams, Kenny Gamble and Ed Wright founded Black Music Month in June 1979. Also known as African American music Appreciation Month, it was first officially celebrated by President Jimmy Carter with a White House reception.

While the nation braced to see what would happen next in Los Angeles, on Thursday a surprising message appeared on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social account.

This is the America the world has been waiting to see. As the self-proclaimed defender of democracy, it is a role embedded in our nation’s history and founding principles. The United States has a long history of supporting democratic movements …