President Donald Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the concerns it raises, the very standards that it describes already exist and are widely applied.

Section one of the order describes why the administration ...Read more

The international news cycle proceeds at such a fast pace these days that we tend to miss some of the significant stories that are bubbling beneath the surface. Many come from the Western Hemisphere, known as America’s backyard.

Compared to regions such as Europe and the Middle East, the Western Hemisphere seems like a relatively peaceful ...Read more

Reality is a difficult foe. This is a concept that some California Democrats have finally started to grasp.

The Golden State’s housing market is a well-documented tire fire. Soaring prices leave middle-class families struggling to find shelter. WalletHub reports that nine of the 10 least affordable cities in America are in California. ...Read more

Here we go again.

A bunch of successful, conservative professional women are telling young women they don't need careers to have fulfilling lives. All they need to do is avoid college (or better yet, just use it to find a husband), get married, have babies, stay home and live happily ever after.

Perhaps you've noticed the proliferation of "...Read more

Extraordinarily narrow and unstable House and Senate majorities have become routine in modern American politics. The frantic, final maneuvering last week before Congress approved President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act shows why that’s likely to persist for some time. And that means business, local governments, non-profits and ...Read more

Elon Musk is ramping up his feud with Donald Trump. Does that mean Democrats can like him again?

They used to. It wasn’t that long ago that the tech titan won praise from the left for his electric vehicle innovations, and the Tesla became the status symbol of choice for clean-energy elites. Last October, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told Chris...Read more

An artificial intelligence furor that’s consuming Singapore’s academic community reveals how we’ve lost the plot over the role the hyped-up technology should play in higher education.

A student at Nanyang Technological University said in a Reddit post that she used a digital tool to alphabetize her citations for a term paper. When it was ...Read more

What's the most downtrodden and persecuted minority in America?

If you said it's transgender youths, immigrant workers or women trying to access their reproductive health rights, you're on the wrong track.

The correct answer, judging from a surge in news reporting over the last couple of weeks, is billionaires.

Concern about the welfare of ...Read more

Tragedies bring out the best in people — at least that’s the assumption of a decent society. For some, however, the misfortune of others prompts them to unleash the most vile and abhorrent of screeds.

When torrential rains in central Texas caused the surging Guadalupe River to flood Friday morning, the swift, deadly waters washed away much ...Read more

What a difference eight years makes. During President Trump’s first term, then-Sen. Marco Rubio pushed the president to expand his human rights diplomatic agenda. Rubio recognized that promoting human rights abroad is in the national interest. He urged the president to appoint an assistant secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights ...Read more

The One Big Beautiful Bill Republicans just jammed through Congress represents a $4 trillion fraud foisted on the American people. Even though the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts, the core of the legislation, will add almost $4 trillion to the federal debt including interest, Republicans claim...Read more

A few weeks ago, I joined other leaders from academic medical centers and research institutions in Washington, D.C., to talk with policymakers about the urgent need for continued federal investments in health care and biomedical research. Despite mo re than 30 years in the field, I came away with a deeper understanding of the increasing threat ...Read more

The Supreme Court has dealt another blow to abortion access. It decided that states can ban Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements because it provides abortions. Women between the ages of 19 to 44 account for nearly two-thirds of Medicaid beneficiaries. Prior to this decision, they were able to access reproductive health care ...Read more

A landmark breakthrough in HIV prevention — a scientific feat decades in the making — received final approval from the Food and Drug Administration last month. Gilead Sciences’ lenacapavir is so effective that global health leaders had started to cautiously talk about the end of an epidemic that continues to kill more than 600,000 people ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The nation's priorities are now crystal clear.

We are adding ICE and Border Patrol agents, activating troops and invading American neighborhoods, including L.A.'s MacArthur Park on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, we are getting rid of medical researchers and weather forecasters, even as extreme and deadly weather events become more ...Read more

Unable to resist the political clickbait, President Donald Trump muscled Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier out of the limelight June 30, to celebrate the opening of a Florida first.

It is an armed camp where thousands of immigrants targeted as undesirables will be confined, possibly without hearings, under the brutal...Read more

President Donald Trump has vowed not to cut Social Security benefits, and it’s easy to understand his position: Proposing even modest reforms to the entitlement program represents a likely path to early retirement for even the most popular politician.

But the structural defects of Social Security have become harder to ignore. And as the ...Read more

The tragic news out of central Texas has been heartbreaking, but it’s also been maddening — because so many lives could have been saved if elected officials had done their jobs. They owe the families who lost loved ones — the death toll from the Fourth of July floods is now at more than 100 — more than thoughts and prayers. They owe them...Read more

As the Trump administration dismantles federal environmental protections and strips the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its capacity to do its job, local governments are emerging as frontline defenders against dangerous and unchecked pollution.

On Chicago’s southeast side, where I live, our parks, schools and homes are surrounded by ...Read more