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During an interview with Good Morning America that aired on Wednesday, White House adviser Ivanka Trump seemed confused about her father’s immigration policy — specifically the authorization he gave troops stationed at the border to use lethal force against migrants…
A California court halted Orange County’s only needle exchange program this week — a decision that illustrates the challenges these programs face despite significant evidence for their benefits. In issuing a preliminary injunction, state Judge Joel Wohlfeil stopped the Orange…
President Donald Trump is “not even a little bit happy” with the Federal Reserve and the man he tapped to lead it, Chair Jerome Powell. And he’s got no problem saying it. Trump has been complaining about the Fed for…
The story of Christmas Day, as recounted in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, is fairly radical: a virgin mother gives birth to a son in a remote and frigid barn, while an angel descends to a group of shepherds…
Monday’s installment of “The Five,” on Fox News, was embarked on an approving consideration of the U.S. Border Patrol’s tear-gassing of Central American migrants, women and children among them, who had approached the border fence from Tijuana the day before.…
That’s odd, I thought, during the early going of Ali Abbasi’s new film, “Border.” I wonder why it’s in Swedish. I’d gone to Manhattan’s IFC Center this past weekend intending to see a different film, “Roma,” arriving with what I’d…
