Richard Galant

It was a week of extremes, with Republicans haunted by new signs of the political world they inherited from Donald Trump. Wall Street grappled with the GameStop insurgency. But the biggest underlying story -- and the central challenge facing the Biden administration -- was the race to save tens of t…

Whether or not the Senate convicts Donald Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” Joe Biden is already well on his way to undoing much of what his predecessor did.

Covid-19 has spread disease, death and economic distress around the world over the past 12 months. But Americans have also had to contend with a host of other disasters, including the extreme weather that brought bitter cold to Texas and nearby states.

As House Republicans set the stage for removing Rep. Liz Cheney from her party leadership post this coming week, it became clearer than ever that the defeated former President owns the GOP. And, four months after rioting Trump supporters invaded the Capitol to try to stop certification of Joe Biden’…

The CDC’s surprise announcement that fully vaccinated people can go maskless in most indoor and outdoor settings came after a year of public health officials urging mask use. The agency said it was based on science about the effectiveness of vaccines, but some critics urged caution.

Stephen Richer tried to stay out of it. “But I am human,” the Maricopa County, Arizona, election official wrote for CNN Opinion, “I have my limits.” He tweeted “this is unhinged” after former President Trump repeated a lie about a missing election database.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s prosecution of the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer is a ‘known unknown,’” as the late Donald Rumsfeld used to say. We know there’s a big question about the case, but we don’t know the answer: Will the prosecution intensify and further tarnish the …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is among the politicians using culture-war tactics to oppose sensible coronavirus precautions recommended by health officials, including compulsory masking of school children who don’t yet qualify for vaccines.

With the US in a Covid spike caused by the Delta variant, the “last mistake” for many could be a failure to get one of the highly effective vaccines and to mask up. The two simple precautions are especially vital as the school year begins.

The newest Supreme Court justice became the latest to assert that the law, not politics, determines how the Supreme Court rules. Soon she and the others on the court will get a chance to prove it. In the court’s new term, the nine justices are due to decide whether an increasingly conservative cour…