Michael Hiltzik

Does it really matter that California’s economy is the fourth largest in the world, since California isn’t an independent country?

Republicans are plotting to cut the federal match for Medicaid expansion, which could cost states as much as $600 billion and leave 20 million Americans uninsured.

Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have achieved the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the media swallowed the claim whole.

At his recent news conference, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spewed a firehose of falsity about autism. Experts in the condition are appalled.

From Mr. Mulliner to Bertie and Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse’s creations make me laugh out loud. In today’s world, that’s gold

Boeing already was suffering in its competition with Airbus before Trump started his tariff war. That won’t make things any easier for America’s top export company.

Trump administration declared 6,300 living people to be dead, in a dystopian attack on Social Security. ‘If they can do this to somebody, they can do it to anybody.’

Trump’s abrupt reversal on tariffs still leaves international trade policy in chaos.

Billionaires who backed Trump in the election are freaking out over his tariffs, but so far he isn’t following their advice.

In many previous downturns, it was easier to base one’s view of the future on stock market patterns of the past. Not this time.