As U.S.-China friction escalates, the rhetoric in Washington has grown increasingly ugly and hostile. The Trump administration, concerned about intellectual property theft and other questionable behavior on the part of Beijing, has embarked on a program of targeting students and professionals of Chinese descent. Not only are these actions ...Read more

This month, the American Medical Association invested $15 million dollars in eight ambitious programs to address the workplace needs of our current health system. Among the goals of this grant was to address the crisis of burnout among training physicians by investing in wellness innovations. In many ways, it is an issue as important and ...Read more

As former Vice President Joe Biden has embarked on his latest campaign for the presidency, I've been reminded about why I left the Democratic Party three years ago, after having been a member since 1980.

I've been reminded of this as his presidential campaign has faced backlash again and again -- and it only officially began a month ago!

First...Read more

In late June of 1969, the New York Police Department raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Manhattan where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people would congregate. On the night of the raid, patrons fought back and days of riots ensued.

Although resistance to the policing of queer lives started long before Stonewall, the riots are ...Read more

Director Ava DuVernay doesn't want anyone calling her "Auntie." Oprah Winfrey says she cringes at the title and Gayle King thinks it should be reserved for the "old lady who lives in the neighborhood."

This doesn't apply to actual nieces and nephews, of course. The problem occurs when people who aren't related to them or who have never even met...Read more

Iran's attack on a U.S. spy drone on Thursday was a reckless escalation of an already simmering crisis. It was also evidence that the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" campaign against the regime is working. The question is what the U.S. does next.

Thanks to American sanctions, Iran's economy is hurting: A recession is deepening, ...Read more

If Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had referred to southern border detention centers as "concentration camps" while making clear she understood that the term predated the Holocaust, that it is rooted in a complex history dating back to the Boer War, this would be a different editorial.

If she had said she was consciously using incendiary language...Read more

There are "more questions than answers" about last week's deadly Costco shooting, Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said, and he's certainly got that right.

It is hard not to ask questions about the incident in which an off-duty LAPD officer shot 32-year-old Kenneth French to death at the warehouse store in Corona on Friday night. The ...Read more

In the Disney version of California, the Golden State was built by industrious settlers who came in waves from various points east to make their fortunes from the resource-rich land that, in some places, was actually lined in gold.

The truth, however, is somewhat darker, tinged as it is with the blood of thousands of indigenous people ...Read more

Donald Trump opened his presidency in January 2017 with a series of salvos aimed at the Affordable Care Act, the signal achievement of his predecessor's administration.

It has long been assumed that these attacks reduced sign-ups during the crucial final weeks of open enrollment for 2018 insurance policies. New data parsed by two experts at ...Read more

Where Iran is concerned, there are hard-liners and hard hard-liners. Everyone, in both camps, wants to ensure that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon, and everyone wants to stop Iran's malign behavior in the Middle East and elsewhere, ensuring peace and stability. The critical difference is how that set of objectives is reached.

The hard-liners...Read more

No territory on Earth has been plundered so long and severely as the land that is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The first thefts were of human beings. For hundreds of years, slave traders from the Arab and Islamic world raided what's now the eastern part of the country, bordering several of Africa's great lakes. From its west, the ...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The United States is raising the profile of its naval activity in response to Chinese assertiveness in the waters of the South China Sea. But it is far from clear that such activity on our part will resolve the admittedly volatile situation in those waters.

Tension has been highest of late in waters not far from the ...Read more

What's your favorite object? Don't overthink the question. Keep it clean and take it seriously: What is the one gadget, gizmo, thing-a-ma-jig or provision that brings you pure joy?

Don't get wiggly devising funny metaphorical answers. (Naturally, grammar jokes are exceptions -- when asked to name his favorite object, my pal Mark Germane ...Read more

Sometimes, seeing is not believing.

In April, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals asked the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to review video footage from inside one of the largest pig factory farms in the province and investigate whether it had violated the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

The ...Read more

Joe Biden is old. He hugs people. He thinks China is and isn't a challenge for America. He is for and against taxpayers financing abortion. He was once against busing for desegregation of blacks and whites. Anita Hill says he did not give her a fair chance to destroy Clarence Thomas. He hasn't shown much oomph as a candidate for president. He ...Read more

When police raided gay bars back in the day, they expected the patrons to scatter. But one hot Friday night 50 years ago, at the Stonewall Inn, no one was going anywhere. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, old, young -- they booed and jeered as the cops walked their prey out of the bar. Kids across the street started throwing pennies, then ...Read more

By now, policymakers have surely heard about the opioid crisis that has gripped the nation since at least 2010. In 2017, more than 47,000 Americans lost their lives to opioids. While China has to this point been the predominate exporter of opioids to the U.S., the market is changing. Officials from Beijing, some of whom were in D.C. recently for...Read more