Salena Zito, writing for The Atlantic in September 2016, may have been the first to describe, in a triumph of pithy efficiency, why Donald Trump is able to survive and thrive despite provocative statements that would endanger the career of nearly any other politician: “When he makes claims like this, the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”

Little ladies of America, put down your sewing kits and listen up: Donald Trump and the Republican Party have your cute little backs. They’re going to protect you — from making your own choices about reproduction, from deciding whether to own a cat, maybe even from traveling between states.

It’s time to retire the old trope that Democrats are anti-business. Perhaps it’s Republicans that are bad for business?

The world, warned President Joe Biden, is at an “inflection point.”

November 5, 2024, might be the day the second U.S. woman presidential candidate from a major party wins the popular vote but loses the election. There have been five U.S. presidential elections where the candidate who won the popular vote did not become president. In each of these cases, the candidates who assumed office without the popular vote were wealthy, white men.

The repeated recent jabs at childless women as somehow less than — with less of a stake in the republic, according to Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, and less humility, according to Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders — strike me as not only cruel, but puzzling.

Nebraska has long counted its electoral votes in presidential elections differently than almost every other state in the union. Forty-eight states are winner-take-all, meaning that the candidate who gets the most popular votes gets all of that state’s electoral votes. A single-vote victory in California or Texas or Florida or New York yields all those states’ 54 or 40 or 30 or 28 electoral votes, putting a candidate well on their way to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.

On Sept. 10, the same day that former President Donald Trump alleged on the debate stage that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating their neighbors’ dogs and cats, a much greater man spoke before the Springfield City Council.

Big Island Substance Abuse Council’s Hulihia Ke Ola program on the Big Island is changing the landscape of substance abuse treatment.

In such a dispiriting campaign season, it’s tempting to tune out each new outrage. Even so, former President Donald Trump’s continued promotion of a sketchy new crypto project mere weeks before the presidential election merits comment.

I’m an independent who has voted for Democrats and Republicans over the years, and what I appreciated most about Taylor Swift’s presidential endorsement was that she didn’t tell people what to think or who to vote for. What she did do was outline a thoughtful process and share where she came out.

It’s hard to reconcile Vice President Kamala Harris’s friendly overtures to gun owners with the footage that recently emerged of a 2007 press conference in which the then-district attorney of San Francisco said cops could conduct random home inspections to enforce compliance with the city’s new “safe storage” laws.

As North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson finds himself under fire for lewd and racist comments he allegedly made on a pornography website more than a decade ago, Republicans have gone to great lengths to avoid condemning him.

Friday was a bad day for bad guys, as Hezbollah terrorists had two of its top gangsters offed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Beirut that also took out more than a dozen other Hezbollah cutthroats. Now dead is Ibrahim Aqil, wanted for killing Americans. As U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said, “Any time a terrorist who has murdered Americans is brought to justice, we believe that that is a good outcome.” Agreed.