Some images stay with us long after they stop being news.

Mothers weeping for their children. Men of all ages clawing through concrete with their bare hands. Neighbors embracing strangers. People handing out water, carrying the wounded, offering a bed to someone who lost everything in a matter of seconds.

Earthquakes don’t just test a city�...Read more

When Leslie Moreno-Roacho’s son Zaiden became the first child in New Mexico to receive a state-funded Baby Bond, she told a local television reporter the deposit was “a ticket to opportunities. The opportunities I never had.”

On July 4, millions of American families were handed the same kind of ticket. Most had no idea how to use it.

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More than 3,800 people have died in Venezuela’s June 24 double earthquake, with 16,700 injured, according to current government reports. A medical crisis has emerged for thousands of survivors, and 17,800 are homeless.

There are heart-wrenching reports of people trying to dig survivors out of the rubble with their hands, with dozens of ...Read more

The threat of financial penalties has states scrambling to clean up their food stamp programs. For this, the White House deserves applause.

President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act features a number of worthwhile reforms, including a provision that imposes penalties on states that tolerate fraud in U.S. Department of Agriculture’...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is abusing a provision of an old law to detain and try to deport people that the Trump administration doesn’t like. It’s wrong and it’s likely unconstitutional.

Passed by a Republican Congress over the veto of Harry Truman, the Red Scare-era Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 says: “An alien whose...Read more

Theories can be useful. But they’re even more useful if they survive real-world scrutiny.

In 1920, Congress passed the Jones Act. It mandates that only American ships are allowed to transport cargo between domestic ports. Sen. Wesley Jones, the bill’s namesake, was from Washington state. He wanted to ensure that his state’s shipping ...Read more

We were glad to see the photo Sunday of a smiling Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. The 84-year-old McConnell revealed Sunday that he had been hospitalized following a rough June 14 fall at his home leading, he said, to “mild pneumonia.”

In a statement, McConnell attributed the lack of information as to his ...Read more

Based on the latest developments, we conclude that the United States and Iran are back at war. And in many ways they are. The memorandum of understanding the two sides signed in mid-June, allowing transit in the Strait of Hormuz to return to normal, permitting the Iranians to the sell their crude oil, and giving U.S. and Iranian negotiators 60 ...Read more

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