Voices

It’s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.

There’s a blueprint for getting rid of solitary confinement that requires only a few basic steps from the mayor and city bureaucracies.

Most Democratic candidates want to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit. But the EITC excludes the neediest Americans and may not live up to its promises.

The latest outrage is a video that depicts Trump killing journalists in a church. He hasn’t bothered to condemn it personally.

Peter Handke has downplayed Serb atrocities in Bosnia and attended the funeral of strongman Slobodan Miloševic. The Nobel judges ignored it.

George W. Bush is not a “kind, sweet man.” There is nothing “beautiful” about him. He was a monster as governor of Texas and a monster as president.

Democrats have sidestepped the question of Hunter Biden’s ethics, and how much responsibility Joe Biden deserves. Republicans, though, have no such qualms.

Three cases before the Supreme Court threaten to gut sex discrimination laws. Already imperiled transgender and queer workers could be the hardest hit.

The bastard child of 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to help fight terrorism. All it really did was enhance executive power.

The U.S. Army has faced almost no resistance to bases named for prominent white supremacists.