Will your next iPhone be ‘Made in America’? Let’s do the math
Just one of the 230 million iPhones that Apple makes every year. Kerry Wan/ZDNET Could your next iPhone have “Made in America” laser-engraved on the back? Don’t hold your breath….
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Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski takes brave stand against Trump
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s longtime U.S. senator, was home from Washington this week, touching base. As part of her rounds, the Republican lawmaker appeared in Anchorage before an annual meeting of…
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Trump threats transform Canadians into flag-waving, U.S.-booing patriots
Kaile Shilling, a writer and former theology student, says she moved from Los Angeles to Canada during the first Trump administration to escape America’s toxic politics. She never saw herself…
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George Bell, Considered the Tallest Man in America, Dies at 67
George Bell, who at 7-foot-8-inches was called the tallest man in the United States, died on March 19 in Durham, N.C. He was 67. His death was announced by the…
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Contributor: Trump’s latest trade war with China is sorely needed
On Wednesday, President Trump abruptly announced a 90-day pause on most of his planned country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs — with the notable exception of the People’s Republic of China. In so…
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Column: Making America a colonizer again
The self-professed “Make America Great Again” president is yet again reaching back to some bad old days in his chaotic quest for this never-defined national greatness. And yet again, Donald…
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Joe Harris dead: Oldest WWII paratrooper paved way for Black soldiers
Sgt. Joe Harris lived a beautiful life. He sailed to earth on numerous missions as a member of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black paratrooper battalion during World War II, the…
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Trump says his tariffs are ‘reciprocal.’ Are they? No, other countries will pay more
As with many of his political positions, President Trump’s extraordinary new tariffs are based on the presumption that the United States is being treated unfairly by the rest of the…
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Trump’s tariff strategy is a surefire loser
At this writing, President Trump plans to impose sweeping new tariffs on imports from around the world. We’re told that “Liberation Day” tariffs will raise $6 trillion in federal revenue…
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America has gotten ruder. Starting at the very top
If you’ve driven on the freeway in recent years, been to the grocery store, attended a movie or a live performance — heck, if you’ve been at all sentient —…
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Former staff and advocacy groups file suit to restore Voice of America – JURIST
A group of former journalists and other employees of the federal government-funded media company Voice of America (VOA) filed a complaint in a New York federal court Friday seeking to force…
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Voice of America has fallen silent. U.S. enemies are cheering
Almost 30 years ago, toward the end of President Clinton’s first term in office, Republicans in Congress forced a government shutdown that led some 800,000 nonessential federal workers to be…
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Tesla attacks mark a surreal twist in political violence as Musk divides America
There were broad expectations that the widening political divides in America following Donald Trump’s second presidential victory would explode. But few could have predicted the flash point would be electric…
Read More »Bank of America cracks down on a disturbing workplace trend
Last year, Bank of America (BAC) suffered harsh criticism after its employee, Leo Lukenas III, who was 35 years old, died of a blood clot in his heart after working 100-hour workweeks…
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Column: The Trump administration has a free-speech problem
I have to wonder: When will Vice President JD Vance condemn his own administration? Last month, Vance, a self-described foreign policy “realist” who scorns the practice of describing countries as…
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America shouldn’t look to Europe for answers – Press Enterprise
America needs more rules to protect workers, say some from both parties. Sen. Josh Hawley wants more rules empowering unions. Barack Obama’s Labor Secretary says there’s “no fairness, no equity,…
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Column: Trump brags about American power while he trades it away
A staple of Donald Trump’s rally repertoire for years has been his claim that, under him, the United States is respected again in the world. Like so much that he…
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Trump is destroying U.S. global standing in a matter of weeks
Donald Trump didn’t invent the American tradition of ditching our friends like a bad prom date (ask the Kurds, Afghan interpreters or anyone who sat through “Rambo: First Blood Part…
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Theater Ceiling Collapses During ‘Captain America’ Screening in Washington State
Two people watching “Captain America: Brave New World” alone in a movie theater in Wenatchee, Wash., on Tuesday night began hearing strange creaking and moaning. In a film where an…
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Column: Trump’s true motive for renaming Gulf of Mexico
Before President Trump, the most high-profile call to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico came from Stephen Colbert, who joked on his Comedy Central show in 2010 that…
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