President Trump has taken an unconventional approach to trade negotiations by sending form letters to foreign leaders. These letters threaten higher tariffs while offering a chance to negotiate.

The deals are already made. The letters are the deals. The deals are made. There are no deals to make. They would like to do a different kind of a deal, and we're always open to talk. We are open to ...

When President Trump and the White House first unveiled “reciprocal” tariffs on April 2 (Liberation Day), stock market ...

Jim Abbott is 57 years old now and hasn’t thrown a pitch in a quarter-century, but on this day his voice slightly quivers, ...

The Democrat party in its desperate search for a platform has chosen to use the attack on ICE as an issue, some members of the party have deliberately impeded the arrest of illegals claiming their ...

Cindy Agidius: Donald Trump created the “clear and present danger” to which you refer in your column in the June 29 Tribune. He did it when he tore up the agreement created by Democratic President ...

Disdain for most | Explain yourself | Hetch Hetchy. East Bay Times reader letters to the editor for July 13, 2025.

An open letter to Pete Hegseth: First off, please excuse my language, but it is what you and Donald Trump seem to speak. You say you want to restore the warrior ethos to the U.S. military. If this is ...

JIM ABBOTT IS sitting at his kitchen table, with his old friend Tim Mead. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, they were ...

Mitch Albom’s “Morning in America” lecture demonstrates that his view is part of the problem. These are not normal times.