Come 2028, the Democratic presidential campaign promises to be a banger, with all sorts of intrigue and subplots layered within a wide-open fight for the nomination.

There's the prospect of same-state rivals going at it. (California's Gavin Newsom vs. Kamala Harris; Georgia's Sen. Jon Ossoff vs. Sen. Raphael Warnock.)

There's sure to be a ...Read more

President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and richest-man-in-the-world Elon Musk have not personally killed anyone, but their actions are unquestionably causing the unnecessary deaths of millions of innocent people — including 4.5 million children — who have been cut off from the lifesaving aid the U.S. was once proud to provide...Read more

Those who believe government can provide health insurance better than the free market need to look at Vermont.

For years, Vermont has geared its health-care policy toward creating a single-payer system. Perhaps that’s not a surprise given that the state keeps re-electing Sen. Bernie Sanders, an ardent socialist. As it turns out, it’s easier...Read more

Polls show that many Americans today — particularly younger ones — have a less-than-favorable view of free-market capitalism. A recent Gallup survey found that just 54% of respondents had a positive opinion of the economic system.

Yet many of capitalism’s most vocal critics openly ignore the abundant evidence of its success.

The Food and...Read more

During the rise of the Internet, as the World Wide Web moved from government and academic settings to family homes, parents worried about the exposure of their children to predators in online chatrooms. A generation later, as social media became central to young people’s lives, the dangers of platforms like Facebook and Instagram to children�...Read more

At a time when both U.S. parties paint the other as a threat to the country’s future, both are ignoring one of the gravest threats of all: student achievement levels that are abysmally low.

The only thing worse than failing to teach students basic skills is not knowing how bad their test scores really are, because that ensures nothing will ...Read more

Since President Donald Trump’s return to power, more than 60 people have died at the hands of or in the custody of immigration authorities, most recently two Latino immigrants in one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Many Latinos have come to feel that their brown skin makes them targets, and...Read more

Why not just build them in space?

As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and storing data aboard satellites in low-Earth orbit, using large solar arrays for power. It’s a crazy idea, ...Read more

When I was in fourth grade, everyone in my class had grand ideas about what they wanted to be when they grew up: a professional basketball player, a firefighter, a professor (I grew up in a college town), a farmer (that was also in the country). I can’t say there was anyone who wanted to be a retirement economist; that came later.

I recently ...Read more

Recent Senate hearings for Todd Blanche, the president’s nominee for attorney general, didn’t change what has become obvious over the past year he has spent in a senior leadership role at the Department of Justice: He’s unfit for the top job.

Senators should make clear to the White House that they won’t consent to his appointment, ...Read more

“I believe that our teachers should be judged based on actual observations and professional judgment, not by AI software,” Illinois state Sen. Christopher Belt of Swansea said of Senate Bill 2909, passed July 10, prohibiting the use of AI in teacher evaluations. “Our educators deserve a transparent and fair evaluation process that ...Read more

Say what you want about Tuskegee University’s new ban on hair bonnets, bedroom slippers, and do-rags in classrooms and the dining hall. But the historically Black college’s iconic first president, Booker T. Washington, would be all for it.

Born into slavery and educated at what is now Hampton University, Washington was nothing if not ...Read more

A few years ago, when viral videos of marauding packs of smash-and-grab thieves and open drug markets in San Francisco seemed to be everywhere, a group of tough-on-crime conservatives mashed the two issues together and created Proposition 36 — a set of new laws that supposedly would combine addiction treatment with punishment for those who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Javier Ramirez was handcuffed in the back of an unmarked car, bruised and confused, when immigration agents used a word he had never heard before.

It was June 2025, and they were bragging about the raids in the Los Angeles area that swept up hundreds of immigrants — and a few U.S. citizens, like Ramirez. The unfamiliar word ...Read more

This week the Michigan Chronicle, the oldest Black newspaper in the state, endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens for the U.S. Senate ahead of Tuesday's Democratic primary. I was struck by two things about the 1,200-word endorsement editorial.

First, Stevens is a highly accomplished elected official who would make a fine senator. In full disclosure, I'm ...Read more

It’s hardly been lost on America’s political class that even as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani leads a resurgent local and national left, the famously progressive city of San Francisco, under Mayor Daniel Lurie, appears to be moving decisively in the other direction.

Yet despite their vast ideological differences, Mamdani and Lurie ...Read more

After Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" was released in theaters, Elon Musk declared he would use Grok to create a more “historically accurate” version of the ancient epic poem.

The uproar over the film’s supposedly woke casting has been loud and sustained, but the people most upset have ignored a pretty significant detail: "The ...Read more

Who doesn’t love a good wish list? Come dream with us right here.

First step, we abolish capitalism. Without that most ultimate of evils? No more bills. No more debt. We’re all carefree now.

That’s the basic premise of the Democratic Socialists of America’s vision. If you haven’t looked at the platform lately, we offer you the ...Read more

When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was appointed secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025, I knew my life would become more complicated.

I am among the estimated 14 million Americans under age 65 who are considered immunocompromised; an additional 58 million over age 65 have immune systems that are naturally ...Read more