Before President Donald Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, ...

We send billions of dollars of aid around the world. Now that we know that a lot of it was waste and woke B.S., that money can now be ...

As the 21st-century approaches the end of its third decade we see a pattern of fear-factor politics dominating the public ...

With a fascistic president and MAGA-dominated legislative majorities, the future of American democracy looks grim.

Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion and Wes Anderson make an appeal to prevent Rome's theatres from being converted to shopping ...

Faulty comparison | Sign on ineptitude | Attacking humanity. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Feb. 23, 2025.

U.S President Donald Trump claims to be striving for autarky (national economic self-sufficiency through domestic production ...

America can once again be the shining beacon of hope and freedom for the entire world, bringing real aid that matters and actually promotes the human condition for all people, everywhere.

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