In a reactionary political movement desperately trying to reestablish the racial and sexual hierarchies of the past, pervasive fear of Black history is not hard to fathom. The more accurate the history that Americans learn, especially about the centuries-long Black struggle against violent White supremacy, the more morally and politically indefensible is the cry of Make America Great Again.

California’s electric vehicle push has increased the demand for natural gas. The global warming alarmists never mentioned that.

For a couple of hours Wednesday night, it was nice to pretend the Republican Party is ready to engage in a competitive primary season that step-by-step winnows a reasonably impressive field of candidates to a single standard-bearer who can put an end to the Joe Biden presidency.

It was the same old Ron DeSantis at the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee Wednesday.

The United Auto Workers union, which represents nearly 150,000 employees of companies that manufacture U.S.-made vehicles, has been engaged since July 2023 in the labor negotiations it undergoes every four years with the three main unionized automakers.

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner Group, reportedly died when a private jet he was said to be on crashed on Aug. 23, 2023, killing all 10 people on board.

New job approval numbers for President Joe Biden are out, and they tell a familiar story: Much of the country doesn’t approve.

The economic travails of the post-pandemic years have led to intense intellectual and policy debates. One thing almost everyone agrees on, however, is that the post-COVID crisis bears very little resemblance to the global financial crisis of 2008.

The police raid of a small-town weekly newspaper in the Midwest — an indefensible and probably illegal assault on the free press — sparked global condemnation, as it should. The authoritarian operation underscored why fearless local journalism remains foundational to open government and a healthy democracy.

ANew Orleans federal appeals court has rejected ideologue Texas Federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling against the Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the medication abortion drug mifepristone, the second part of the two-drug regimen that is frequently used instead of surgical abortion. The panel, however, decided to also reject science in siding with Kacsmaryk in overturning the 2016 and 2021 expansions that allowed, among other things, the drug to be mailed.

Democrats and Georgia prosecutors will try to humiliate Donald Trump in a televised courtroom appearance and trial, but the tactic could backfire if the former president succeeds in putting the politically-tainted judicial system on trial.

In 2021, our team at UC Merced found that covering California’s extensive network of irrigation canals with solar panels could make significant contributions to both clean energy and water conservation, serving two of the state’s most pressing needs at once.

President Joe Biden has professed sympathy for American consumers pinched by inflation. But his actions speak louder than his hollow lip service.

The decision sounds monumental: A Montana court has ruled that climate change is real and caused by humans and that governments owe their constituents’ children a clean environment.