What will it take to cure Parkinson’s disease? It’s one of the first questions I asked when I was diagnosed in 1991, and one that patients and families still ask today. A lot has changed in those three decades, and thanks to the tireless efforts of a global community of scientists, patients and advocates, we’re closer to a cure than we’...Read more

A new report released by the Trevor Project in early May found that an astonishing one in 10 LGBTQ+ young people attempted suicide last year, and more than a third seriously considered attempting suicide.

These findings add urgency to the call for the federal government to restore the LGBTQ+ youth option for its national 988 Suicide & Crisis ...Read more

While most folks think that the U.S. Department of Agriculture focuses on farm policy, the largest agency within USDA is the Forest Service — famous for Smokey Bear and quietly doing significant work on many fronts.

As secretaries of Agriculture during the Clinton and Bush administrations, we spent years getting to know what this agency does:...Read more

The results of a survey on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s “bell-to-bell” statewide ban on smartphones in school during its first academic year were exactly as we predicted: An A+. Other states should follow, as it keeps kids focused on their class work and their teachers, not being lost to online distractions. The only downside is that it should have...Read more

For years, most Americans’ retirement savings plans have been locked out of certain investment choices, including some of the market’s best performing assets. That makes it harder to save for retirement. Fortunately, though, this is about to change, giving savers new—and better—options for their investments.

At issue are not only the ...Read more

Just over a week ago, the question facing the American “intelligence community” — all of the assorted spies and spooks at 18 different agencies — ran roughly as follows: Are things so bad that they can only get better? Or is there another step down?

There was another step down, it turns out, and it is Bill Pulte, whom President Donald ...Read more

The U.S. would have you believe it is showing leadership in Asia. Yet the nation displaying real resolve is Japan.

Standing up to China over its rapidly expanding military strength is what the Indo-Pacific wants to hear from Washington. Instead, it was left to Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi to do that when he took the stage at ...Read more

It’s easy to understand why so many graduates are booing commencement speakers who tell them how great AI is. They face a brutal job market, with unemployment for recent college graduates nearing recession levels, and AI is often cited as the reason they can’t find jobs or have to drastically reassess their career plans.

I have a message ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV’s apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s sins of slavery is long overdue. With that apology must come atonement.

Last week, Leo apologized for the Holy See’s role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican’s record “a wound in Christian memory, one from which we cannot ...Read more

The World Cup is coming to America. For many observers, that represents soccer’s arrival in the United States. I think it represents something else: the culmination of a transformation that has been underway for half a century.

I’ve probably watched “Once in a Lifetime,” the documentary about the rise and fall of the New York Cosmos, ...Read more

As America prepares to celebrate 250 years of kicking butt and taking names, I’m celebrating something that we aren’t kicking: soccer balls.

Our victory over the Brits did more than guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It also freed us of the menace of European culture. We dumped tea and we drink coffee. We pushed away ...Read more

It was a public outcry that came to encompass even some GOP senators that killed Donald Trump’s nutty $1.776 billion so-called anti-weaponization slush fund — the result of his laughable lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and less comical settlement to raid public funds to pay traitors and political allies.

But Trump is still ...Read more

Jill Biden’s book tour is exposing what is so wrong with the Democratic Party.

She feared her husband, then-President Joe Biden, was having a stroke on the debate stage when his mind drifted to somewhere beyond Pluto. That was on June 27, 2024, when he said at one key juncture: “Making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary ...Read more

After all the buildup, fear and uncertainty, the most wide-open and unpredictable California gubernatorial primary in decades appears to have ended in the most consistent and predictable of ways.

California has never elected a female governor. That won't change in November.

Voters have never much cared for rich people trying to buy the state's...Read more

If President Donald Trump wants the Senate to pass an immigration enforcement package, he’ll have to give up his ill-advised “anti-weaponization” fund. That’s a trade-off the White House wisely accepted.

On Monday, Senate Republicans put on hold efforts to pass a $70 billion funding package for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ...Read more

When President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in January, some pundits raised their eyebrows. The skepticism didn’t just arise because a sitting president was essentially suing the government he also runs, but that it was Trump who was doing the suing.

The apparent motive behind the scheme ...Read more

“I don’t care about the midterms,” President Donald Trump said last week. Conventional wisdom says he must. But maybe we should take him at his word.

The president has, again and again, created significant and unnecessary headwinds for Republicans.

Take Trump’s endorsement of scandal-ridden Ken Paxton over incumbent John Cornyn in the ...Read more

Normally, a presidential election in South America wouldn’t raise eyebrows in Washington’s corridors of power. Last weekend’s election in Colombia, however, was no ordinary contest. Although it would be too dramatic to say that the historic relationship between the United States and Colombia will come down to which candidate wins the ...Read more

As the nation approaches its 250th Anniversary, Americans should be entering a moment of pride, reckoning, and aspiration — honoring our founding ideals, confronting our injustices, and committing to a shared, inclusive future. But millions cannot reach that place.

They are living in a country where the most basic democratic promise — that...Read more

My alma mater, the University of Chicago, recently announced that it will provide free tuition for students from families with incomes below $250,000, joining a list of elite universities offering generous financial aid.

These measures are welcome, but it remains to be seen whether they meaningfully alter a status quo in which elite ...Read more