After All ThisEvery day I lock my classroom door. It’s both a school policy and a time-saver in case there’s an active shooter. Every day I know I could be shot.
Why Did the Baby Seal Cross the Road? It’s Not a Riddle for This Connecticut CityA baby seal was rescued from the streets of downtown New Haven, lethargic and underweight. He is now recovering at a nearby aquarium, which hopes to eventually release him back into the ocean.
Violent Extremists Are Using Antisemitism to Recruit in Canada: CSIS ReportIdeologically motivated violent extremist groups are using antisemitism in a bid to recruit followers and inspire violence, according to a report from Canada’s spy agency.
Layoffs Begin at the IRS, As DOGE Cuts Collide With Tax SeasonMore than 100 were laid off in Denver, part of a reported 6,000 nationally.
As Musk reshapes the government, some ask: Where are the guardrails?In less than a month, Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has fired thousands of federal employees, frozen billions of dollars in funding, sifted through reams of private data and left many Americans with a simple question: How could this happen?
Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on UkraineIt took a while for Canadian politicians to figure out that Donald Trump wasn't joking with his talk about annexing Canada. After Trump raised the idea at a dinner in Mar-A-Lago attended by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Nov.
Trump calls Zelenskyy a dictator amid fears of irreconcilable riftThe US and Ukraine appear to be heading towards an irreconcilable rift after Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the Ukrainian president “a dictator” and warning that he “better move fast” or he “won’t have a country left”.
The one big question looming over Trump’s power grabsNo one knows if the Supreme Court will enforce the law against Trump. Much of what Donald Trump has done in his first eight days back in the White House is legally unjustifiable. What’s uncertain is whether the Supreme Court will do anything to stop him.
Courts block Trump's DOGE actions — chaos, panic not proving to be best legal strategyThe Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency team continue to crash into more federal agencies — shutting down ongoing work and firing thousands of federal employees. It is a historic power grab by the president.
A spurious U.S. ‘realism’ about Ukraine flirts with catastrophe“The Czechs,” murmured Chamberlain. He had lit a cigar and pushed back his chair. “We have rather forgotten about the Czechs.” — “Munich,” by Robert Harris
The Constitutional Crisis Is HereIf Congress won’t stop Donald Trump and Elon Musk from arrogating its power over federal spending, who will? Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you, shrouded in darkness, revealing itself gradually. Other times it announces itself dramatically.
The legal theory that would make Trump the most powerful president in US historyPresident Donald Trump recently attempted to fire Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and its former chair.
It is not Trump that betrayed UkraineUnited States President Donald Trump did not stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours of his inauguration, as he promised during the election campaign last year. But three weeks into his presidency, things got moving in that direction at a breakneck speed.
The Politics of “Common Sense” Is Making Us MeanerNeoliberalism was first born about eight decades ago, a time, not unlike our own, of profound uncertainty and anxiety, when the world was very much in need of new ideas.