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Every year around this time, the noise starts to drop. The pace eases a bit. Families gather, neighbors reconnect, and people who disagree on just about everything still manage to pass plates across the same table.

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As Americans gather for holiday celebrations, many will quietly give thanks for the health care workers who keep their families and friends well: the ICU nurse who stabilized a grandparent, the doctor who adjusted a tricky...Read more

Much has been written about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) since it was signed into law last summer, but one of its more interesting provisions has been somewhat overlooked: the expansion of charitable contribution...Read more

My friend Sara, eight weeks after giving birth, left me a tearful voicemail. I’m a clinical psychologist specializing in postpartum depression and psychosis, but mental health wasn’t Sara’s issue. Postpartum weight ...Read more

It was the words of President Donald Trump, spoken 2,300 miles away, that prompted Mikaiil Hussein — a U.S. citizen who first came as a refugee from Somalia over 30 years ago — to take steps to protect himself.

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I understand your anger. And that anger is justified. I, too, am angry at the Democratic Party for turning away from its traditional role as the supporter of the American worker.

After having been neglected and ...Read more

Before Illinois became a state anchored by a sprawling metropolis, it was a humble prairie. Flat, yes, but that open horizon offered the perfect home for creatures big and small to graze and lope.

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Will someone please tell President Trump that he’s not running against Joe Biden anymore?

That much should be obvious, even to casual observers, but, halfway into his second term, he can’t seem to let his former ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s nominating Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as U.S. special envoy to Greenland, in the latest signal that the president retains designs on increasing U.S. influence over the island he’s ...Read more

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and Gaza during a pre-Christmas phone call on Sunday, according to a statement released by Downing Street in London.

Starmer also updated ...Read more

A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

“We really...Read more

This will go down as the year when the president of the United States openly went to war against the rule of law. I’ve been writing about the many battles of this war throughout 2025.

In this column, I’m going to ...Read more

A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the U.S. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and wonder.” A ...Read more

President Donald Trump endorsed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman for New York governor a day after Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, another long-time ally of the president, dropped out of the race.

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The holidays have arrived once again. You know, that annual festival of goodwill, compulsory spending and the dawning realization that Santa and Satan are anagrams.

Even in the best of years, Americans stagger through ...Read more

The holidays have arrived once again. You know, that annual festival of goodwill, compulsory spending and the dawning realization that Santa and Satan are anagrams.

Even in the best of years, Americans stagger through ...Read more

In the last year or so, health influencers — and a lot of women on social media — have talked up testosterone therapy as a kind of perimenopausal panacea. They promise boundless energy, crisper thinking, better sleep �...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Nearly one year after the Eaton fire incinerated their block in west Altadena, neighbors gathered again, greeting one another with hugs that spoke to a bond forged by shared loss.

They had agreed to meet ...Read more

According to data from the CDC analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA, some 3.3% of American high school students ages 13-17 self-identify as transgender. Earlier studies, sometimes asking the question differently, ...Read more

At the sixth-ranked American public university, UC San Diego, a quarter of students taking a remedial math course placement exam couldn’t solve for x in this equation: 7 + 2 = x + 6. A third couldn’t subtract 1/3 from ...Read more