Time and again, cost-of-living crises like the current global energy-price shock confront governments with a dilemma: Either do the difficult work of identifying and supporting the vulnerable, or throw money at everyone whether they need it or not. Time and again, they overwhelmingly choose the latter.

It’s a habit they can no longer afford. ...Read more

As is the tradition, the first full week of October marked the announcements of Nobel Prizes, with a new one each day: Physiology and medicine Oct. 5, followed by physics, chemistry, literature and peace on successive days. The first three often are considered the science prizes, and since their start in 1901, scientists in the United States ...Read more

There’s a sentiment bubbling up in the U.S. and Europe propelled by deep urges to preserve group identity, urges that trace back to the origin of the species. This drive has been actively suppressed in many nations since World War II, and yet Germany’s far-right, anti-immigrant party AfD just triumphed in an eastern state election, and in ...Read more

Time and again, cost-of-living crises like the current global energy-price shock confront governments with a dilemma: Either do the difficult work of identifying and supporting the vulnerable, or throw money at everyone whether they need it or not. Time and again, they overwhelmingly choose the latter.

It’s a habit they can no longer afford. ...Read more

On America’s Election Night 10 years ago, I was a diplomat with the U.S. mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. We were hosting a watch party with local political, business and civil society leaders. U.S. elections offer a chance to showcase how democracy works and to share American values, so these watch parties are a public diplomacy staple at ...Read more

Radical socialists are threatening to lead the Democratic Party into ruin and potentially turn an expected blue wave into an eventual red nightmare.

The Democrats’ midterm celebration could be short-lived as they realize the party has lurched so far to the left to make their 2028 candidates unelectable.

There is a real danger that post-...Read more

The keys to early release for imprisoned Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could belong to two Republicans after Tuesday’s election.

Those candidates are House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the governor’s race and Ron Schutz, who is running for attorney general. If elected, the two would join state Supreme Court Chief Justice Theodora Gaï...Read more

A group of Catholic leaders came to the White House Oct. 22 to pray for President Donald Trump. Unbeknownst to the well-meaning Catholics, their prayer in the Oval Office was recorded and the White House shared it without permission, according to Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.

Everything is on camera, and every photo and every recording has...Read more

The Florida International University students who were part of a private chat filled with racist, antisemitic and violent messages want a federal judge to believe it was all in jest.

They are fighting FIU’s decision to punish them, claiming that the university took their provocative jokes — including talking about beheading Black people —...Read more

Should America long for the days when a married president would not publicly catcall a woman who was not his wife and when the crowd would not cheer him for it?

At a rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump called attention to a “beautiful” feature of rapper Nicki Minaj, saying her derriere was “hard to miss.” The most revealing part ...Read more

The next governor of Florida will inherit the nation’s second-largest death row population — and with it, a legacy of profound questions about the remorseless and deeply flawed system that put so many people there.

In a recent statement, Republican Byron Donalds said he “firmly supports” the death penalty.

Democrat David Jolly has said...Read more

President Ronald Reagan’s famous warning that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; it has to be fought for and defended by each generation” is even more relevant today than when he first said it.

He correctly identified that prosperity is not a predetermined outcome. It is created and sustained by culture, ...Read more

Early this year, I lamented that the nation's former presidents had not come forward, forcefully and ideally as one bipartisan unit, to condemn the utterly condemnable incumbent.

At the time I wrote, armed and masked federal agents that President Trump had sent into American cities to enforce his immigrant deportations had recently killed two ...Read more

Most Americans are probably familiar with homicides from TV shows such as the “Law & Order” franchises, which have run for decades. They know that murder can be accomplished with a variety of weapons, poisons and even with bare hands. Less obvious is that it can be the direct result of government officials inducing people to distrust proven ...Read more

The most important outcome in next week’s midterm elections may not be whether Democrats or Republicans come out on top. It may be whether both parties accept the results.

Judging by the most recent polls, Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress and may win control of one or both houses. Unfortunately, when asked whether he’ll abide ...Read more

Today is the birthday of the Statue of Liberty, dedicated in New York Harbor 140 years ago, Oct. 28, 1886. Lady Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the United States, but she belongs to the whole world.

Her famous face is not trademarked. Her name is not copyrighted. Anyone can try to make a buck using her image, but the only way to...Read more

When the Pulitzer Prize Board has its autumn business meeting on Friday (October 30, 2026) in the World Room in Columbia University’s Pulitzer Hall, the members must put transparency at the top of the agenda and restore the annual live announcement and press conference when the prizes are unveiled every spring.

As this column discovered in ...Read more

The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium.

Dolores Huerta was about to speak.

At the summer conference for Latino high school students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the early 2010s...Read more

I’m not sure why it took Gloria Steinem’s death for me to really delve into her life. I knew she was a leader of second-wave feminism in the 1960s and a journalist, but I didn’t know much more than that. I was born in 1977, about three years after the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 made it illegal for creditors to discriminate ...Read more

Nithya Raman slowly recited the start of her handwritten message to Angelenos.

Llegué de la India con mi madre a los seis años. Sé lo que cuesta empezar de nuevo.

I came from India with my mother when I was 6. I know what it takes to start over.

The mayoral hopeful was in the green room of Univision's Westchester studios on Thursday, ...Read more