Column: When the president has to say ‘I’m not a dictator,’ we’re in trouble
“I am not a crook,” President Nixon said in 1973. “I’m not a dictator,” President Trump insisted on Monday. And with that, another famously false presidential proclamation entered the annals…
Contributor: Trump is not the biggest threat to the Fed’s independence
Concerns about the Federal Reserve’s independence have grown following repeated attacks by President Trump, including this week’s decision to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook based on questionable allegations. But this…
Brazil cracks down on illegal cattle, JBS among penalized meatpackers
Brazil’s environmental authorities announced a major operation that seized around 7,000 illegal head of cattle in the Amazon on Thursday. The government also issued fines to several ranchers and slaughterhouses,…
An ICE raid breaks a family — and prompts a wrenching decision
KINI, Mexico — On a hot June night Jesús Cruz at last returned to Kini, the small town in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula where he spent the first 17 years of…
To solve the wildfire crisis, we have to let the myth of ‘the wild’ die
“On this site President Theodore Roosevelt sat beside a campfire with John Muir on May 17, 1903,” reads a wooden marker, not far from Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite Valley. I…
A mother’s choice: Jail in L.A. or deportation to Mexico with her children
YOJUELA, Mexico — Modesta Matías Aquino was working her regular morning shift — 3 a.m. till noon — at the Glass House Farms in Camarillo, caring for rows of marijuana…
Contributor: Ending the Ukraine war? Trump is the man for the job
Two months after the Operation Midnight Hammer strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities and the ceasefire with Israel that soon followed, President Trump has once again upended conventional foreign policy wisdom.…
ICE will ‘ramp up’ immigration raids in Los Angeles, other ‘sanctuary cities,’ border czar says
President Donald Trump’s border czar told reporters Thursday that federal authorities planned to increase immigration raids in Los Angeles and other so-called “sanctuary cities,” with Chicago likely the next target.…
The space economy is adding jobs in Southern California
In a giant Long Beach warehouse near where Boeing used to build the C-17 cargo jet, Vast is fabricating what could be the first commercial space station to circle Earth.…
The FDA just overhauled COVID vaccine guidance. What you need to know
New federal guidance surrounding COVID vaccine authorization could make it more difficult for many people to be inoculated against the circulating — and, now, seasonally spiking — coronavirus. Under the…