Jason Fields

The encampment on George Washington University's campus was loud and triumphant.

The United States of America is an empire of might and of influence. There has never been anything like it for scale and global impact, even if history has yet to render its verdict on America's endurance.

I have had my faith in Congress restored by the bipartisan—yes, I said bipartisan—effort to end TikTok's reign as the primary tool of American idiocracy.

The Earth is on an elevator to hell, and someone removed the emergency stop button

President Vladimir Putin couldn't murder opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a bullet behind closed doors in the good-old Soviet way—at least not according to Russia's current constitution.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is apparently looking to reach out to the American public, and to do it directly.

Legacy media keeps getting it wrong. Breathless coverage of a foregone conclusion—the presidential primaries—makes The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, and everyone else look foolish.

Geopolitics isn't a beauty contest, and the most congenial contestant doesn't come home with the prize.

Thanksgiving is the best holiday on the American calendar. It applies to everyone, there are no presents involved, and even if Black Friday is coming, it hasn't arrived just yet.

Israel and its people are being asked to do something unprecedented in history: commit suicide.

RFK Jr.'s positions on vaccines (anti) should have disqualified him from cocktail parties and polite society long before he decided to seek the highest office in the strongest country in the world.

As I write this, we know very little about what happened to the Wagner mercenary group's boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, but we know a little something about coincidence.

Some people in America feel less safe than they used to, even as crime goes down for them. They point to urban areas, where many poor people of color live and are afraid.

Your favorite post-apocalyptic movie has already begun, the credits are over and the fight for survival is on.

As more than 8 million people breathed—and saw—the air of New York City last week, climate change went from faraway abstraction to clear and present danger.

Even as they celebrate their victories in the courts and legislatures across the U.S., Christian extremists cry out, "Will nobody think of the children!?"

Erdogan is an authoritarian—what commentators used to call a "strongman." That there will be a May 28 presidential runoff vote between Erdogan and his chief opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, doesn't change that fact.

Considering how much Trump likes to be on TV, it's not surprising that the years since his time in office are playing out like a bad vampire movie.

Republics are like Tinkerbell from Peter Pan: If you don't believe in them, they cease to exist.

It's the bloodiest war Europe has seen in nearly 80 years. No one is sure—or honest—about how many people have been killed in Russia's war of choice in Ukraine. Certainly, more than 100,000, probably not 300,000—yet.

The United States is taking new steps—steps it once said it would not take—to help Ukraine in the fight against Russia. Ukraine gets the Patriot anti-missile system and Ukrainian soldiers get a free trip to Oklahoma to train in how to use it. This is a necessary and inevitable step, but before we take the next one it's important to take into account how we got here—and how far we are willing to go.

Former President Donald Trump had dinner with antisemites and I'm having trouble getting worked up about it.

Vote Democratic.

Some right-wing beliefs are forcing me to reevaluate my own actions—or lack thereof. The relentless attack on the LGBTQ community—especially trans people—that has been such a central part of this election's culture wars, has finally opened my eyes to how it must feel to live on sufferance.

Some have argued that Ukraine's struggle to survive is none of our business. In fact, the faster Ukraine falls, the faster we can all get back to swilling Russian oil while nibbling on tea sandwiches made with ex-Ukrainian wheat.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has the worst idea—ever. If NATO went along with it, a war would start like none we've ever seen: Endless troops, streams of tanks, a sky blotted out by warplanes.

NPR's "Up First," a 12-minute news-update podcast I listen to every day, led off with the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, of which the United States has not been a part for nearly 250 years. It was the 11th day of coverage of the 96-year-old's death.

There's one thing every kid in language class will complain about, and that's "false friends." These are tricky words in two or more languages that sound the same, and/or are spelled the same, but have different or even opposite meanings.

For our country without a monarch, Queen Elizabeth II offered stability for 70 years and made U.S. presidents look like mayflies. She died Thursday aged 96.

Prices are actually going up in the United States continually for basic staple goods. It's directly caused by an enemy.