JD Vance says he hasn’t seen “a single shred of evidence” that Donald Trump is enriching himself in office. Yes, he just said that. Really? Let me help him out. I wrote out some of Trump’s top enrichment schemes below in the 15 minutes before my son’s hockey practice ended. First, the stock trades. Trump has made...

I refuse to accept this moment as normal. The United States is in the middle of a massive, deadly, backbreakingly expensive war in the Middle East - a war opposed by 70 percent of Americans - and Congress has not taken one single vote to authorize it. It is an illegal, unconstitutional war that has made our nation...

It’s time to stop mincing words and being polite: College athletes started making money, jeopardizing an exploitative system that kept billions in revenue in the hands of mostly white male adults — and suddenly college sports was in “crisis.” The NCAA has a long history of exploitation: its first executive director...

With Iran dominating the news, you've probably missed the corruption scheme Trump is running in Venezuela. Since he's going to meet this week with the dictator he installed to grease the wheels for his oil friends, it's a good time to tell you the story. Trump and Rubio said the reason for removing Maduro by force...

Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made a stunning admission: artificial intelligence is advancing so fast that, unless it slows down, it could threaten humanity itself. Other industry leaders, including Sam Altman and Elon Musk, quickly agreed. That’s the good news. The people building AI now openly...

Photo credit: OFW member and photographer Nortei Dowuona. Every year for the last decade, I’ve walked across Connecticut. It takes me about a week. I know it might sound a little quixotic: a U.S. Senator walking down Main Streets and country roads, stopping to talk to whoever might pass by. But there’s a reason I do...

The Munich Security Conference this year felt a little bit like a funeral for the post-World War II order. Everybody at the conference recognized that, while that order had been decaying for years, Donald Trump is attempting to really deal a death blow. But while I was surrounded in Munich by people mourning the end...

Hey, it’s Chris Murphy. My new book, Crisis of the Common Good, comes out next week. It’s about America’s spiritual crisis - how we’ve lost a sense of connection to our neighbors and how the cults of profit, globalization, consumption, technology, and credentialism have made it harder to find meaning, purpose, and...