Young people overseas are paying close attention to American politics, and they are concerned — not only about us but about the impact on them as well.

We are a bipartisan group of former members of Congress, having just left office last year, and we traveled together to Germany where we met with university and high school students in Hamburg...Read more

There are several ways the oldest president in America’s history could diffuse the sticky issue of his age as he seeks a second term.

He could embrace it with humor, à la Ronald Reagan’s quip at Walter Mondale during the 1984 presidential debate (“I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience�...Read more

America has had a generation gap from the very start, and generational warfare for almost as long. But in at least one area, I believe a cease-fire is possible: We can end the war over which generation had it worse when they were young.

With soaring rents, high mortgage rates, student loans and a ballooning national debt to pay for entitlements...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. just got McCained.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that the independent candidate for president had some health issues in recent years, including an abnormality caused by a worm that entered his brain and eventually died.

Kennedy revealed this info as part of a 2012 deposition during his divorce from second wife ...Read more

Students at C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento are getting a crash course in the First Amendment, while school administrators are hopefully learning a lesson of their own: Don’t censor journalists.

Last week, the student paper published a series of comments from students, including one praising Adolf Hitler. Then, administrators at ...Read more

Steaks and shakes are the new SUVs.

It’s all those cows, contentedly mooing while producing billions of pounds of planet-warming methane. The World Bank has a solution.

In a new paper, the international financial lender suggests repurposing the billions rich countries spend to boost carbon dioxide-rich products like red meat and dairy for ...Read more

California’s Proposition 47, a milestone in criminal justice reform, is under threat. The proposed Homelessness, Drug Addiction and Theft Reduction Act, which seeks to undo important aspects of Proposition 47, would take us backward to prioritize punishment over rehabilitation.

Proposition 47 was passed in 2014 to revise penalties for ...Read more

As a local organizer and advocate, I spend most of my days in official municipal or state-level meetings and hearings about issues affecting our communities. Often, I become frustrated because even though I am seen as a respected community leader, I am not able to officially represent and advocate for my community. My ineligibility to run for ...Read more

Public opinion polls show the Nov. 5 presidential race has tightened in recent days, with President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump running nearly neck and neck. And in case you don’t trust polls, which underestimated Trump’s support in 2016 and 2020, you can check out the latest odds on one of the online gaming sites based offshore ...Read more

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency plans to reclassify marijuana from the most restrictive category — Schedule I, up there with heroin — down to Schedule III, in the company of testosterone and Tylenol with codeine. This does not mean that the federal government is giving its blessing to the use of cannabis as a recreational drug. But it does ...Read more

Trump, reelected, will subvert the law — first by freeing the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

Of all the promises that Donald Trump has made for a second term as president, he's all but certain to fulfill one if he's reelected: pardoning most, if not all, of the rioters who've been arrested, pleaded guilty or been convicted by judges or juries for ...Read more

There is a scene in the first “Star Wars” where the heroes find themselves in a garbage compactor. They frantically grab for anything that can keep them from getting crushed as the walls inexorably close in. Such is the plight of civil society in countries facing what democracy experts call “closing space” — and it has now come to the ...Read more

Let no one underestimate the seriousness of the Clery Act, the federal law that requires institutions that participate in federal financial-aid programs to provide timely reporting of statistics about various types of crime and other information about campus safety.

The U.S. Department of Education underscored its importance last month when it ...Read more

If you’re alone in the forest, who would you rather run across: a man you don’t know or a bear? This question, posed to multiple women in a TikTok video last month, has taken the dilemma of man versus bear viral. And women online are nearly unanimous in favor of the stocky, shaggy, sleeps-through-the-winter one.

Let me clarify in case you ...Read more

It probably escaped your attention, but the Internal Revenue Service recently piloted a program to help Americans cope with their notoriously complex tax system. Direct File was meant to help taxpayers in 12 states prepare and submit their returns electronically. Some 19 million people were eligible to use it. Thanks partly to a rollout late in ...Read more

With the addition this year of Sweden and last spring of Finland to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Baltic Sea has been dubbed a “NATO lake” by some analysts. A glance at a map shows that is largely (but not completely) true — the coastline has a couple of slivers of Russian territory. The rest of the coastal littoral is in ...Read more

If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did get into would be far more likely to injure or kill you, you probably wouldn’t take that deal. But that might be the bargain we have made with climate change and two of the most destructive natural...Read more

This week Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., delivered another classic grandstanding moment during a Senate budget hearing. Citing reports that President Joe Biden was pausing weapons shipments to Israel, Graham expressed his displeasure with his usual demonstrative hand gestures and a well-timed table slap. He even leaned back and licked his lips ...Read more

The administrative state continues to run amok under President Joe Biden.

Recently, a judge with the National Labor Relations Board found that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated federal labor law. His crime? Offering his opinion about the consequences of employees forming a union.

Jassy in April 2022 had the gall to tell a CNBC host that Amazon ...Read more

It’s not often that Paul Krugman and Donald Trump agree. But the Nobel-prize-winning economist and former (and future?) president have both subscribed to the mainstream consensus that, in the short run, less skilled immigrants are a burden on public finances. They may receive government benefits, including health care, yet they are not always ...Read more