In 2023, Americans spent $113 billion in lottery tickets and $72 billion in foreign aid (1.2 percent of the federal budget). Americans may be skeptical about foreign aid, but global achievements over ...

Deporting migrant criminals was in part what President Donald Trump was elected to do. But he must do this within the bounds of American law. The administration argues that each Venezuelan was ...

The next ‘Alligator Alcatraz’? DeSantis announces new Florida ‘Deportation Depot’ | August 14 In his Aug. 13 column in World Politics Review titled, “Superman’s Lesson for Post-Trump U.S. Foreign ...

Former Santa Cruz Mayor Mike Rotkin’s effusive panegyric (Jan. 2) to President Carter left out two of his foreign policy accomplishments which deserve mention. By granting the Canal to Panama, he ...

Jan. 29 was supposed to be the day the U.S. Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2026 funding. However, like with many bills in Congress, senators could not agree, which ultimately triggered a partial ...

Re: “Israel-Hamas cease-fire gets council support” (Page A1, Jan. 18). San Jose’s City Council used a letter to finesse its own bylaw forbidding resolutions on foreign policy. This approach still took ...

The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the other five days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, ...

Most of our readers are concerned about issues close to home, and that’s natural. The price of milk and eggs mean more to the average person than what is going on thousands of miles away. But recently ...