The overhaul of American attitudes toward immigration has many fronts. One is the border, both the southern and northern frontiers. Another is workplaces — Mexican restaurants, manufacturing plants like the Hyundai facility where hundreds of Koreans recently were arrested — where the undocumented are found. A third is this week's emphasis on sanctuary cities, which harbor many of the migrants Donald Trump is targeting.
The Trump administration has refused to submit the entire Epstein files as directed via a House committee’s congressional subpoena. The administration basically implied that “you will get it when you get it.” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has rejected using the power of Congress to force…
U.S. President Donald Trump got so fed up with the Pentagon calling itself the “Defense Department” that he decided it needed a makeover. Apparently “defense” sounded a little too yoga-retreaty for his taste.
As I travel around the country flogging my new book “Coming Up Short” (which, please remember, you can order at bookshop.org, and the audiobook at libro.fm), I’m seeing a groundswell of revulsion against Donald Trump.
The radio station around here has a popular morning feature called "Talk of the Towns," and in the past week, the talk of the towns, and of New Hampshire more generally, has been Rudolph Giuliani's injury in an automobile accident.
Do you remember the last blockbuster action movie you saw? Well, they are all the same. They are action packed, sometimes scary, and always portraying good triumphing over evil.
Donald Trump is clearly looking for an exit ramp in Ukraine, but someone desperately wants him to blow right past it. That someone needs a swift kick to the curb.
At the Aug. 25, Meredith Selectboard meeting, members heard a request for the town to assume maintenance responsibility for certain roads in a subdivision and they also finalized action on comprehensive fees and the disposition of tax deeded property.
Donald Trump has begun to worry that he might be going to hell.
The Pavlovian Left goes berserk at the mere prospect of each new Trump initiative.
Exactly 105 years ago, on Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution finally gave women a say at the ballot box. You’d think that more than a century later, anyone still objecting would be relegated to mumbling on a street corner. But current Pentagon chief and former Fox New…
Sparkling wine flowed, hors d'oeuvres were passed, speeches were given. There were panel discussions, an archives tour, a reception and dinner. I wasn't there, and you weren't either. Nor was anyone you know. And the occasion? Something you never heard about, involving someone you likely nev…
President Donald Trump wisely announced recently that there will be no U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine, but he has put boots on the ground in American cities headed by Black mayors. Ukraine is a war zone; American cities are not. OK? Does anyone else see a problem here?
When U.S. President Donald Trump met with his Russian counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at a U.S. military base in Alaska last week, the world united in hope.
There’s been a bit of a media freakout this month about the growing popularity of school choice programs nationwide.
The Aug. 11 Meredith Selectboard meeting included a comprehensive review of town fees, membership in an education funding advocacy group, consideration of a memorial bench policy, and expenditures for solid waste hauling and a boiler replacement.
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