Another window to stem America’s latest health care cost crisis has closed. Congress set a self-imposed deadline of January 30 to reach a compromise to extend financial assistance available under the Affordable Care Act, and that deadline has passed without an agreement. Already, about 4 million Americans have lost their government aid, and many of […]

President Donald Trump is frequently accused of authoritarian ambitions. It’s an image he often seems to relish, either sincerely or as trolling. “Usually they say, ‘He’s a horrible dictator-type person,’ I’m a dictator,” he said in Davos. “But sometimes you need a dictator!” Over the past decade, he’s made a political career by dominating the […]

When President Donald Trump launched his deportation campaign last January, he had the American public at his back. Under Joe Biden, unauthorized border crossings had soared to record levels — and threw America into a nativist mood. In November 2024, a CBS News/YouGov poll found 57 percent of Americans expressing support for “a national program […]

Humanoid robots — actually useful ones, the kind you might encounter in day-to-day life — have long been the territory of science fiction, not reality. But their sci-fi ubiquity makes them an understandably tantalizing prospect, and “embodied AI” — AI given a physical system — is already making a difference in the world. Could this […]

It’s no secret that President Donald Trump has global aspirations — despite his promises of focusing on “America First.” The past few weeks have seen US action in Venezuela; threats to Greenland, Europe, and Iran; and Trump’s open solicitation of a Nobel Peace Prize. The president’s latest global push: the Board of Peace. With its […]