I've written quite a few columns about the death of student-athletes over the years.

In 2011, I covered the story of Wes Leonard, the high school basketball player out of Fennville, Michigan, who collapsed and died shortly after hitting the game-winning shot that preserved his team's perfect season.

Later that summer, at least six high school ...Read more

New Jersey made national headlines earlier this week when it was revealed that 6,600 noncitizens had been added to the state’s voter rolls between June 2023 and June 2024 — and roughly 400 of them had cast ballots since then. Not good.

Especially given the moment, when debates over election integrity have become intensely polarized and the ...Read more

Repeated law-breaking. Lying and deceit. Reckless disregard for safety. Lack of remorse.

Those are traits that help define a psychopath, someone who lives among us but doesn't have the empathy and ethics necessary to behave in a civilized, or even safe, fashion.

Unfortunately, it's also increasingly clear that these are the traits that define ...Read more

Legislation to reshape the rules for voting nationwide is the issue that’s prompted the greatest pressure from President Donald Trump on Senate Republicans to end the filibuster. That’s also the issue that triggered the greatest pressure on Senate Democrats to end the filibuster under President Joe Biden. The parallel is no coincidence.

And...Read more

In June, University of Chicago President Paul Alivisatos announced that the institution would be rolling out Claude Enterprise, an artificial intelligence tool developed by Anthropic, to all students, faculty and staff.

The letter features carefully composed language: “Spanning the domains of research, education, and operations: these are ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani, a lifelong foe of the existent of the Jewish state of Israel, knows he can’t do anything of the sort by ordering the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu should he come to New York. So why does Mamdani keep talking about the impossible? The mayor even used city resources to make a 2-minute video decrying Netanyahu ...Read more

It's right there in his name: Sen. Mark Warner for months has been on a tear to warn Americans of President Donald Trump's designs to disrupt the midterm elections.

The Democrat from Virginia first got my attention in late March with a four-alarm op-ed in the New York Times. The sober, plugged-in Warner, the vice chair and a former chair of the...Read more

When we imagine a threat to free speech, we picture a ban — a law forbidding certain words, a prosecutor charging a dissenter, an official with a censor’s stamp. That picture is increasingly obsolete. The gravest threats to expression today rarely announce themselves as censorship. They take the form of ordinary administration turned to ...Read more

Will the nation’s biannual ritual of moving the clock backward and forward an hour soon be a thing of the past? Perhaps, but it’s no sure thing.

The House last week passed the Sunshine Protection Act by a 308-117 margin. Support cut across party lines. Under the legislation, states that don’t exempt themselves would observe daylight ...Read more

My late father-in-law smoked unfiltered Camel cigarettes. Regrettably, I now feel like I do too when summer makes its annual debut.

The culprit is the wildfire smoke blanketing Minnesota again and again, turning blue skies to apocalyptic yellow, with ash coating cars and windowsills in some of the hardest-hit areas of our state. The gloomy haze...Read more

The war in Iran is nearing the five-month mark, and during that time at least 17 U.S. service members have been killed and more than 400 injured. Still, for the war President Donald Trump said would take “a few days,” there is not only no end in sight, but the stated objectives have yet to be accomplished.

That’s because Trump bypassed ...Read more

The summer travel period is here, with high passenger volume keeping airplanes filled, even as jet fuel prices remain high and ticket prices have spiked.

To add more angst to air travel, the first half of 2026 gave air travelers a rollercoaster ride of delays and disruptions. Whether it was Transportation Security officers not being paid due ...Read more

The United States — like all democracies — is centered around the basic premise that a representative system of governance reflects public preferences. This is not and has never been true, however.

As the left and right argue, the disproportionate influence of a select few suppresses the will of the majority. Interest groups play an outsize...Read more

Having died earlier this month after two decades in the Senate, Lindsey Graham is likely to be remembered for his roles in foreign policy and his imprimatur on Trumpism. For LGBTQ+ people especially, he may be remembered as the last closet case.

There is no verified public evidence of Graham’s sexual orientation. He consistently denied the ...Read more

Earlier this year, my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Scott Lincicome made a convincing case for why the tariffs placed on aluminum imports to the U.S. may be the dumbest of all the Trump administration’s duties. Things got a lot dumber this week.

The White House on Monday said companies that build, expand or refurbish aluminum plants in the U.S....Read more

It would be political folly for the Democratic Party to fully embrace calls to “abolish ICE,” at least without adopting a substitute blueprint for strong immigration enforcement.

That’s not to say Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t abused its power during President Donald Trump’s second term. American citizens have been ...Read more

One year ago, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans forced their Big Beautiful Bill through Congress. Today, it is one of the most unpopular major laws in recent history and continues to lose support with the American public.

The design of the bill was simple and gave millionaires, billionaires and corporations massive tax cuts ...Read more

Dogs and cats don’t know when their family is struggling financially. They don’t understand layoffs, rising rent, unexpected medical bills or expensive auto repairs. But they do know when the people they love are stressed.

They feel the tension in the home, and they’re affected when worry leaves us with less time, energy and patience. ...Read more

If you listen to the debate over affordability, you’d think the Working Families Tax Cuts had failed. Critics point to today’s cost-of-living challenges as proof that they aren't working.

No one bill was ever going to solve every affordability challenge facing this country. If we’re going to judge this law, we ought to judge it...Read more

There’s been a lot of online discourse about how unfaithful Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is, how part of the movie was shot in northern locations such as Iceland and Scotland and how, God forbid, a Kenyan woman was cast as Helen of Troy. But as a classics major, I think all of that is OK, maybe even good: The new ...Read more