A deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is set for signature on Friday, and Donald Trump is already congratulating himself on being the first U.S. president to have made peace with Iran since the country’s 1979 revolution. That’s wrong. He is the first to have taken America to war with Iran, and therefore the first to have needed a truce to ...Read more

There are two processes that we cannot escape: aging and math. This applies not only to human beings but also to large government social-insurance programs.

Last week the Social Security Administration released its annual trustees report, and the news was not good. Starting in the fourth quarter of 2032, one quarter earlier than previously ...Read more

Steven Spielberg’s spectacular career arc includes popular popcorn films like “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park” as well as more sober, serious cinema like “Lincoln” and “Saving Private Ryan.” But while the movies vary, there’s one theme he keeps returning to: the possibility (or probability, as Spielberg seems to see it) of ...Read more

As President Donald Trump sinks deeper into an Iran quagmire, he looks like a loser for joining an ill-planned war of choice and failing at peace talks.

Even if a U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (or MOU) is signed soon, this will not be a “peace deal” but will merely kick negotiations on all the tough issues down the road. And the MOU...Read more

The naysayers have had their say. Concern over a bold tower, characterizable as brooding. Worries about neighborhood gentrification, implying a new tourist destination is all downside. The amplifying of complaining subcontractors, always easy to find. And an absurd prejudgment that a museum celebrating a presidency could not coexist with an ...Read more

Have you ever voted for a politician who said we should censor the media or ignore court rulings? What about a candidate who encouraged or joked about political violence? Or someone who prioritized your party over the Constitution? You might have felt uncomfortable about it, but you agreed with them on some substantive issues, so you held your ...Read more

Two major American universities were asked to do one thing after my mother died in April: acknowledge her passing.

The foundation she co-created nearly 50 years ago, the Dr. Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Family Foundation, had given hundreds of millions of dollars to higher education, much of it to the University of Florida and UC Berkeley. Both...Read more

Representative Seth Moulton’s primary challenge to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey hasn’t attracted as much national attention as the Democratic firefights over Senate nominations in Maine and Michigan. But the Massachusetts contest will also offer important clues about where Democrats go next — particularly whether they can honestly ...Read more

NEW YORK -- Question for America: Why should Black people make a big fuss about the nation’s 250th anniversary when places like Nassau County, New York, won’t even recognize our history?

In 2020, Juneteenth became a state holiday and a year later, it became a federal one.

Yet in Nassau County, June 19 has not been officially recognized, ...Read more

Back in 2008, there were 12 women running Fortune 500 companies. Even though that equaled a measly 2.4%, it was still progress. A decade earlier, that number was 0.4%, or just two women (Jill Barad at Mattel Inc. and Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial Corp.).

I remember these stats well because at the time I had just started at Fortune ...Read more

My great uncle Fred, a former World War II prisoner living in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, had little to his name but a four-wheel-drive truck. When the treacherous winter storms came, he would drive around, offering to help poor souls who had gotten stuck in the snow. But he was no good Samaritan: He charged exorbitant prices, sussing them ...Read more

For those of us struggling to understand today’s Republican Party, this past week’s primary elections in South Carolina offered a useful case study.

The key developments were these: Rep. Nancy Mace — a former conservative rising star who seems tailor-made for the Trump-era attention economy — finished fifth in her state’s Republican ...Read more

The most subversive aspect of Donald Trump’s tyrannical designs and paranoia is his corruption of the Department of Justice.

He has made it into a personal weapon against any perceived foe whom he wants to destroy. This alone makes Trump’s third impeachment long overdue.

He couldn’t do it alone. His accomplices need to be held to account...Read more

In a moment of gloomy geopolitical news, Ukraine has become a bright spot. Kyiv is faring better on the battlefield than at any time in years. Russia’s costs are surging even as its military gains shrink. If Ukraine can sustain this trajectory, perhaps it can finally force Moscow to make a decent peace.

But the optimism should be tempered: ...Read more

A fresh attack on the U.S. scientific infrastructure could be the most damaging yet.

The Trump administration is pushing alarming changes to rules that govern how federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health distribute funding — changes that threaten to permanently politicize research in the U.S. And since the NIH is the largest ...Read more

Six years ago, in the midst of a national reckoning over race, policing and public safety ignited by the murder of George Floyd, few people would have predicted where the country would find itself today.

Following sharp declines in violent crime, many communities across the nation are now safer than they’ve ever been before. But even fewer ...Read more

When the Navy’s one-star admiral promotion list was publicly released last month, one thing stood out immediately: There were no women on it.

Anyone familiar with the normal results of the service’s promotion boards knew that was unusual. Qualified women had not suddenly disappeared from the Navy’s bench.

The explanation came soon ...Read more

The No. 1 anti-poverty program for the elderly. The No. 1 anti-poverty program for children. The program more veterans rely on for disability benefits than any other agency in the country.

The way Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) described the importance of Social Security during a congressional hearing this week, you'd think the solvency of the 90-...Read more

The Democratic Party just shot cancel culture in the foot. Its weapon of choice: Graham Platner.

The controversial Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine comes with baggage that would have sunk many pols. But he’s a Democrat up against a Republican. And that is all that counts.

Revelations about Platner, 41, include dismissive online ...Read more

Early Tuesday morning of last week, President Donald Trump claimed, yet again, that a peace deal with Iran could be closed “in two or three days.” This was the 38th time since a U.S.-Iran ceasefire in April that he predicted a deal was around the corner.

But never mind.

By later Tuesday, Israel was heavily bombing the historic city of Tyre...Read more