Trump's Big Ugly Bill delivers $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement. This is on the scale of supplemental budgets passed by the United States when we enter war. ICE will add 10,000 agents to the 20,000 already on the streets. Its annual budget for detentions will skyrocket from ...

America's 249th birthday yesterday was no party. Call it bittersweet at best. The guns of Gettysburg were stilled on July 4, 1863, after the Union Army whipped Robert E. Lee and Confederates brigades in a raging three-day theater of civil war. Now somehow, without ever reading it, President ...

Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new "America Party" to primary those who voted for it. He doesn't need a new party. He has his old one, the Democrats. Many Democrats have grown to intensely dislike Musk, and they have their reasons. ...

After nearly 10 years away, I returned to the Daily Mining Gazette in December, in the re-branded position of Community Editor. I've essentially have the same duties and responsibilities I had in my former position as Managing Editor, but the new name emphasizes our commitment to the people and ...

Democrats can say the wildest and craziest things and know that all those badly named "mainstream" media outlets and fact-checkers won't care in the slightest. Sen. Bernie Sanders can call the Republicans a Stalinist cult. Rep. Pramila Jayapal can call ICE a "terrorist force." It's all fair ...

Literature fuels empathy and conversation. It can foster belonging and it can also fuel productive discourse. But only if you actually read. If you choose to opt out altogether, you only fuel ignorance, which is what the Supreme Court ruling on Mahmoud v. Taylor accomplished. Parents can now ...