If we want to consider what’s possible for Ukraine, the people of Poland are living proof. They gained freedom from communist rule at the end of the Cold War with President Ronald Reagan playing what he called a supporting role in bringing down the Soviet Union.

A virulent anti-communist, Reagan found his way into the history books by telling...Read more

Sometimes what goes around actually does come around.

Take President Donald Trump, for instance.

Days after he trolled former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama with a racist mock-up of them boarding a graffiti-laden Air Force One, Trump had to switch aircraft because his pet plane wasn’t up to security snuff.

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On May 27, 2003, Nicholas Enrich, a 21-year-old studying in Kenya, reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak.

On the same day, in Washington, America reached its highest peak with Africans when President George W. Bush, flanked by fellow world leaders and experts steeped in the link between foreign assistance and domestic...Read more

The state and county fair season is in full swing—but what visitors want is changing, even if many fair boards are still clinging to the past. The momentum is clear: Guests are embracing innovative, animal-free entertainment—and moving away from exhibitions that depend on exploitation.

At forward-thinking fairs across the country, visitors ...Read more

As a student, I was taught that politics is a contest of ideas. Experience has shown me otherwise.

In a recent New York Times interview with Ezra Klein, conservative activist Chris Rufo captured this reality succinctly: “While we should have the facts on our side, and while we should use logic, by itself, it’s insufficient. Politics ...Read more

The conflict between the U.S. and Iran has escalated into open confrontation, with operations intensifying near the Strait of Hormuz. What began in early 2026 as tit‑for‑tat exchanges has hardened into a grinding confrontation — one driven less by strategic necessity than by presidential ego and the fantasy of dismantling Iran’s Islamic ...Read more

Recently, a nurse told me she had to choose between paying for her husband’s surgery and putting a new roof on their home. “We’re praying for no rain,” she said. In that moment, the distance between political promises and real life collapsed.

This is what the economy feels like for millions of Americans — not a graph, not a headline,...Read more

The World Cup has been an amazing spectacle and, mercifully, the sport’s notorious hooligans have been largely absent.

As soccer fans well know, hooligans are rowdy gangs that engage in violent behavior on game days. In some soccer-mad countries, they’re not just a nuisance but part of organized crime networks with ties to law-enforcement ...Read more

For years, the Republican-appointed majority at the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed red states to limit rights prized by liberals, including access to abortion, LGBTQ protections and voting rights. Simultaneously, the majority has repeatedly overturned blue-state laws that conservatives say infringe on the rights they prioritize, including ...Read more

When dealing with President Donald Trump at a NATO summit, the European allies resemble desperate adults hovering around an unruly child who is clutching fireworks and matches.

So it was a relief that, despite his usual juvenile tantrums and threats at this week’s Ankara, Turkey, gathering — and his erratic behavior toward Iran — the ...Read more

No matter what you thought of South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s politics, his sudden death on Saturday deepens a void in an institution badly in need of more people willing to build relationships across the aisle.

Graham died of complications from heart disease after returning from a trip to Ukraine, where he and a bipartisan group of ...Read more

Even Chicken Little might be embarrassed by the hysterics of congressional Democrats over health care.

Cast your mind back to last year. Democrats forced a 43-day government shutdown. While Republicans have majorities in both houses, they needed Democratic votes to break a Senate filibuster. In exchange for funding the government, Democrats ...Read more

America celebrated its 250th year of independence under a historic heat dome that shattered more than 148 records for daily high temperature across the Eastern United States.

The nation’s capital recorded the hottest Fourth of July on record at 103 degrees. Philadelphia, where our Declaration of Independence was written, recorded three days ...Read more

Maine oysterman Graham Platner suspended his Senate campaign amid a hurricane of revelations, culminating in a sexual assault allegation credible enough that his own national political party abandoned him within hours.

Before the scandals, his appeal, blue-collar affect, and progressive policy positions had catapulted him to stardom. Platner's...Read more

There’s a simple statistic that often stops people in their tracks.

It is this: Reading for pleasure as a child is the factor that studies show is more closely correlated with future success than anything else — even more than family background, wealth, schooling or peer group.

But in America right now fewer children than ever are reading ...Read more

This week the loved ones of Nolan Xavier Wells, the 18-year-old college football player who went missing while partying with friends on the Fourth of July, learned the body authorities found days later was his. Wells was last seen alive on Horn Island, a sliver of undeveloped land that's roughly 20 miles from the coast of Alabama, 10 miles from ...Read more

These are uncertain times for America’s large and significant nonprofit sector. Since retaking office in 2025, President Donald Trump has canceled or frozen more than $425 billion in federal funds across the arts, education, health care and other sectors.

This affects us all. There are nearly 2 million nonprofit organizations in the United ...Read more

Democrats are scrambling in the wake of Graham Platner’s exit from the U.S. Senate race in Maine, but one of the questions the party should be asking itself is this: What have you learned from the fiasco?

Platner, a military veteran and oyster farmer, was the darling of progressive leaders after Gov. Janet Mills dropped out of the race in ...Read more

As a student years ago, I dove deep into the history of the Red-hunting McCarthy era and became familiar with the actor who emerged second only to Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy as the villain of that insidious time: his shameless, conniving young lawyer, Roy Cohn. Never would I have imagined that a future president would count Cohn as a mentor and...Read more

Since the nation’s earliest days, the federal government has struggled to contain leaks. The newest proposal to plug them — a nondisclosure agreement that federal agencies may roll out to more than 2 million civil servants — is unlikely to improve matters.

The plan comes from the Office of Personnel Management, whose director, Scott Kupor...Read more