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

Can Chicago fourth graders read? How well? Are they doing better or worse than they were in 2019, before the pandemic?

People asking these questions often struggle to get a straight answer. Usually, the best way to tell what’s going on is to look at the data.

Unfortunately, even numbers can paint a misleading picture.

They did just that in...Read more

Ebola is a diabolical disease. The virus, which can cause severe hemorrhaging, spreads through blood and other bodily fluids. Patients, as they grow sicker, become a ticking bomb, endangering anyone compassionate enough to provide hands-on care.

I saw it firsthand while responding to the two largest Ebola outbreaks in history with the U.S. ...Read more

Con artists steal millions every year from vulnerable Americans, but it increasingly appears that the real money is in ripping off U.S. taxpayers. As bank robber Willie Sutton famously said, “That’s where the money is.”

Some experts put the total amount of federal and state COVID money that ended up in the hand of fraudsters at nearly $1 ...Read more

It’s not often that you see a standing ovation at a medical conference. But over the weekend, a ballroom full of cancer specialists got to their feet to applaud a slide showing that Revolution Medicine’s daraxonrasib had doubled the survival time of patients with pancreatic cancer.

The response shows the pent-up desperation for progress in ...Read more

Ebola is a diabolical disease. The virus, which can cause severe hemorrhaging, spreads through blood and other bodily fluids. Patients, as they grow sicker, become a ticking bomb, endangering anyone compassionate enough to provide hands-on care. I saw it firsthand while responding to the two largest Ebola outbreaks in history with the U.S. ...Read more

Last year, a report compiled at one of California’s most prestigious public universities revealed that a significant percentage of incoming freshmen struggled with basic math. Others lacked elementary writing and language skills.

A recent revolt by University of California faculty members now indicates the rot is systemwide.

In October, a ...Read more

Public outrage and sustained pressure from dedicated advocates helped secure the release of 1,500 beagles from Ridglan Farms, a Wisconsin facility that for decades bred and sold dogs to laboratories for painful and deadly experiments.

People around the world celebrated while watching the dogs feel sunshine, grass and tummy rubs for the first ...Read more

In September 2014, I was working as a watch officer in the U.S. State Department’s Operations Center, the 24/7 nerve center that monitors world events and responds to global crises. This meant I had a front row seat to the expansive U.S. government response to the Ebola epidemic that rocked West Africa that year. It was the biggest outbreak of...Read more

What does the closure of a longtime manufacturing company in northern Minnesota have in common with the hapless Boston Red Sox? According to critics, private equity management ruined both, and their communities paid the price. The political reckoning may affect this year’s midterm elections.

Minnesota Twist Drill in Chisholm and Hibbing, Minn...Read more

The Trump administration has made strides in chopping away at the corpulent federal administrative state. Nevertheless, the Competitive Enterprise Institute estimates that government regulations still pile $2 trillion in annual costs on American consumers, or nearly $16,000 per household.

“Businesses and citizens spend too much time and money...Read more

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshaping human life in ways that can be beneficial and harmful while also posing many unknowns as the technology leaps forward by the day.

AI has already impacted every corner of our world, from big and small businesses to healthcare, government, education, and human relationships. While some have ...Read more

Virginia just made history as the first Southern state to provide workers with paid family and medical leave to tend to their serious medical needs, welcome a child into their lives, or care for an ill family member.

The new legislation has been described as a win for the state’s new Democratic governor, Abigail D. Spanberger, who was voted ...Read more

Could there be a better metaphor for the plight of the out-of-power Democratic Party than the fact that it's now a week into debating how the party screwed up an "autopsy" about how the party screwed up the 2024 presidential election?

Or that the Democratic National Committee's forced release of that 2024 autopsy last Thursday, after its leak ...Read more

Just one of the nine Supreme Court justices thought it was appropriate for Roger Goodell — whose primary job as NFL commissioner is to protect the league — to decide whether the NFL's hiring practices are still racist.

And it happens to be the same justice whose close friend is an NFL owner.

In fact, the friendship between Justice Brett ...Read more