In the grand buffet of problems explaining President Donald Trump's abysmal approval ratings, reserve a tray for Mexican food.

Americans are rightfully frustrated with the myriad consequences of the war with Iran he plunged us into, the rising cost of living, his pharaonic obsession with monuments to himself and his overall doddering state of ...Read more

Need another metric to show that, for President Donald Trump, "Make America Great Again" means regressing to a 1950s-style white patriarchy? Probably not. But here's a good-bad one for you, marking the deplorable progress of Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's war on diversity in the leadership ranks of the nation's military:

Hegseth's ...Read more

Recently, a middle school teacher took to an online forum to share her grief after two students dumped soap into classroom fish tanks, killing 11 baby fish and seriously injuring two larger fish and two frogs. The students’ only consequence was to apologize.

Other educators weighed in with their own stories about animals who were victims of ...Read more

Many private liberal arts colleges are entering death throes, even as education in the humanities in our tumultuous world is more important than ever. There may be ways to save the tradition, if not all the ivied brick-and-mortar campuses.

There are about 200 “national liberal arts colleges” in the popular U.S. News & World Report ...Read more

By no coincidence, Black August and Black Philanthropy Month are observed at the same time. Both are rooted in a simple truth: Our liberation is never granted; it is built, protected and sustained.

The Black liberation movement commemorated by Black August gave us the blueprint for organizing people who had been deliberately and systematically ...Read more

The average human being can’t survive more than 72 hours without water. In Puerto Rico, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens are being forced to go 48 hours without running water in their homes during a hot, dry summer while also enduring a shaky electrical grid.

If such things were happening to a mainland population of similar size — ...Read more

Recent reporting says Russian leader Vladimir Putin is considering testing the resolve and combat responses of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) over the next couple of years. Despite being outgunned in defense spending and seemingly having its hands full in Ukraine, the Russian Federation already appears to be probing the alliance. ...Read more

Sculptor Amanda Matthews arrived at the Kentucky COVID Memorial earlier this month prepared, ready to repair her work. Located on the grounds of the state capitol in Frankfort, the sculpture features several figures positioned around a giant silver sphere emblazoned with the state seal and motto: “United We Stand, Divided We Fall.” It’s ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — It’s hard being a global titan these days, when despite beaucoup bucks spent bending government to your will, any little ant of a state attorney general can crawl up your pant leg and bite.

Just ask David Ellison.

After, well, the world seemingly fell in line with his long-planned $110 billion merger of Paramount ...Read more

Some encouraging blows for common sense were struck by primary voters to our north on Tuesday, on both sides of the aisle.

But those looking for compelling evidence that uber-lefty politics won’t play in the Upper Midwest outside of gentrified urban neighborhoods and college towns won’t find it in Francesca Hong’s narrow defeat for the ...Read more

Over the past week, I’ve been inundated with requests from journalists to talk about pop star Ariana Grande’s body. A week ago, Grande blamed “endless, ongoing public scrutiny” for her decision to step back from the public eye at the end of her current world tour. Online chatter about the role Grande’s visibly shrinking body played in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s chief negotiating strategy consists of keeping the other party guessing about what he might do next. As this pertains to Iran, the president has repeatedly threatened Tehran with additional military action only to back off once new “peace talks” are on the table.

But it has become increasingly apparent that this ...Read more

No one can claim to have been surprised by the executive order President Donald Trump issued Monday calling for a radical transformation of childhood vaccination practices in the U.S.

After all, Trump has been beating the anti-vaccination drum for years. His secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is an established anti-...Read more

America’s affordability divide is increasingly visible in Americans’ biggest purchases.

The wealthy may be doing just fine. It’s the Americans below them who increasingly are recalibrating what they can afford — a divide now showing up vividly in two big-ticket purchases: cars and houses.

When it comes to nice cars, people accustomed ...Read more

President Donald Trump and his dangerous health secretary Bobby Kennedy Jr. struck another blow against public health by issuing an executive order intending to space out childhood vaccinations and to separate out the common measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, replicating a push at the CDC that had been blocked by a federal judge.

RFK Jr....Read more

Over the past week, I’ve been inundated with requests from journalists to talk about pop star Ariana Grande’s body. A week ago, Grande blamed “endless, ongoing public scrutiny” for her decision to step back from the public eye at the end of her current world tour. Online chatter about the role Grande’s visibly shrinking body played in ...Read more

Faced with soaring deficits, an aging population, a teetering pension system, unsustainable health-care obligations, $1 trillion in annual interest costs, rising long-term bond yields and net public debt at around 100% of gross domestic product, what’s a country to do?

For the 119th Congress, the answer has been simple: Tax less and borrow ...Read more

How are Americans supposed to make a more perfect union when we can’t agree on whether we need to turn our cultural clocks forward or backward?

This question is among the more difficult that people can pose to their fellow countrymen. Not just because it has no obvious or easily agreed upon answer, but because it’s more likely to be asked ...Read more

“You are being watched” was the tagline that opened every episode of the television series Person of Interest, which ran from 2011 to 2016 and already feels ancient. The conceit of the show was that the good guys, aided by a friendly AI, could use information from a sea of cameras and microphones to stop crimes before they happened.

That ...Read more

Health care innovation is built for patients who have time. ALS patients don't.

ALS reshapes time in ways that are hard to fully appreciate from the outside. Certain losses arrive earlier than expected, and once they begin, they don't reverse. Speech can be one of the first to go. When it does, the window to preserve a patient's actual voice ...Read more