TULSA — Tom Coomer has retired twice: once when he was 65, and then several years ago. Each time he realized that with just a Social Security check, “You can hardly make it these days.” So here he is at 79, working full time at Walmart. During each eight-hour shift, he stands at the store…
Democrats who voted on a spending bill this week to keep the federal government open are facing backlash from their party for not demanding a permanent solution for thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. Immigration advocates in and out of Congress are railing against those who voted for the stopgap…
President Trump awarded himself a 10 out of 10 score two months ago for his response to Hurricane Maria, which leveled Puerto Rico…. This week, we learned the truth. Some 1,065 more Puerto Ricans died in September and October of this year than in previous years, almost certainly storm-related deaths, according to the Center for…
WASHINGTON — Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged. Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nation’s airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the United States in a dramatic demonstration…
Republican resentment of higher education is everywhere. It is in the voters, in the politicians and in the presidency. Higher education is in strange form these days. Research has shown, again and again, that college degrees have a high return on investment — this, in part, explains the considerable hike in college tuition prices. Those…
A group of African-American organizers in Alabama, who played a role in driving the turnout that led to Democratic candidate Doug Jones’ win in the special Senate election, issued an open letter on Friday congratulating him while urging that he keep his campaign promises, instead of tacking right to appease the conservative makeup of the…
WASHINGTON — More than 700 people have left the Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office, a wave of departures that puts the administration nearly a quarter of the way toward its goal of shrinking the agency to levels last seen during the Reagan administration. Of the employees who have quit, retired or taken…
At least for the moment, it seems that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, may keep his job. President Trump declared this week that he does not currently intend to fire him — a concession, perhaps, to the overwhelming public opposition to such a move. But that doesn’t mean Mr. Mueller’s investigation is free from peril.…
A common experience after writing an article is that once it’s published, people come out of the woodwork to tell you things you wish you had known. It doesn’t matter that you spent weeks reporting in the first place. Usually these readers reach a reporter by email or in the online comments. But the other…
CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — At this sprawling steel mill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the workers have one number in mind. Not how many tons of steel roll off the line, or how many hours they work, but where they fall on the plant’s seniority list. In September, ArcelorMittal, which owns the mill, announced that it…