Among the core Israeli national narratives that have been fractured by the Hamas terror attacks and months of war and violence is the notion that Israel’s ethos on firearms differs from that of the United States.

Both countries can be characterized as gun-centric democracies, but according to the Israeli narrative, the U.S. is a land of too ...Read more

When it was reported that a demonstrator near Columbia University had loudly suggested that Jews should go back to Poland, I was already there. My wife, son and daughter and I were visiting Holocaust sites in Eastern Europe. My father’s family is from Poland and Ukraine, and many of our relatives perished in the Holocaust.

I don’t know if ...Read more

In quietly halting a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel last week, President Joe Biden at last began exercising U.S. leverage to halt a full-scale invasion of Rafah, the final refuge in Gaza for about a million Palestinians displaced by Israeli destruction elsewhere in the besieged territory.

It’s the right move, even though Israel may ...Read more

House Republicans delivered a much-needed, no-holds-barred rejection of Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s power grab on Wednesday, briskly voting down her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson.

Her public shaming was far too long in coming. And it united a fractious GOP caucus who, with the aid of Democrats, had promised they ...Read more

I’ve been to prison three times, but everyone — including me — thought that my second time would be my last. I had just learned I was pregnant a few days before I was incarcerated for drug possession. I spent my entire pregnancy in jail and gave birth to my first child there. We had two days together before I was separated from him and ...Read more

Civil rights organizations and defense attorneys last month asked the California Supreme Court to invalidate the death penalty in this state for being irredeemably racist. Around the same time, Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price announced that a federal judge had ordered her to review 35 cases her office had handled over the last ...Read more

It’s not often that Paul Krugman and Donald Trump agree. But the Nobel-prize-winning economist and former (and future?) president have both subscribed to the mainstream consensus that, in the short run, less skilled immigrants are a burden on public finances. They may receive government benefits, including health care, yet they are not always ...Read more

Of the many heartbreaks and hellish outcomes that the COVID era delivered, few compare to the experience that Georgia state Rep. Matt Hatchett and so many others had when they dropped ailing loved ones off at the doors of their local emergency room, never to see them again.

On the day Hatchett said goodbye to his mother in November of 2020, new...Read more

Fifteen states are holding presidential primaries this April and May. And at a time when party polarization seems stronger than ever, Donald Trump and Joe Biden voters seem to agree on at least one question: What’s the point?

The Washington Post found that only about one in 10 voters nationwide took part in a primary or caucus through Super ...Read more

COVID-19 cases and deaths internationally have fallen to their lowest levels in four years. The data now permits a comparison between the controversial laissez faire strategy of Sweden and the more restrictive approach of the United States, which emphasized lockdowns, a strategy also adopted by most of Western Europe.

The Swedish tack relied on...Read more

Give dunce caps to the Florida Legislature for flunking one of life’s most obvious lessons.

It’s this: Experience really is the best teacher. That goes double for teachers themselves.

There’s no college prep or other shortcut to knowing what works best with each student and with a classroom as a whole. Teachers learn that only from their...Read more

Don't be surprised if these annoying protests on college campuses turn out bad for Democrats. They usually do.

If history is any guide, Republicans will capitalize on the divided Democrats' perceived weakness and appear to be the stronger party in November.

Already, Donald Trump seems to have benefited from the heavy news media focus on pro-...Read more

Joe Simitian long had his eye on a seat in Congress. It would have been a fine way to cap his 40-year political career.

"I viewed it as an opportunity to improve the lives of the people I represent in a different way at a different level," the Silicon Valley Democrat said.

Little did he know.

On election night, March 5, Simitian was running ...Read more

When Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger announced on Tuesday, the 13th day of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, that “the people call Stormy Daniels,” there was a perceptible tremor of anticipation among the jurors. Although the 34 criminal offenses charged against Trump are legally peripheral to his interactions with the...Read more

When I was young, my father gave me one piece of advice about choosing a career: Stay away from any occupation with a national “appreciation” day.

As a public high school teacher, he believed that those days were a performative substitute for fair wages and social respect.

So what, by that logic, are we to make of Mother’s Day?

I’ve ...Read more

Alex Garland’s box office hit, Civil War, which is set in a future America at war with itself, has drawn lots of criticism for not telling audiences what caused the conflict — and for its refusal to more realistically portray the battle lines that divide Red and Blue America. That critique not only gets the movie wrong, in my view, but it’...Read more

Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida last weekend, where he reportedly told a room full of donors: "When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare." He then drove home this point: "And don't underestimate welfare. They get welfare to vote, and then ...Read more

Let it be noted that Hamas raced to the bargaining table once it became evident that Israel was prepared to follow through on its vow to enter Rafah and to finish off the terror group. Strange how that works.

Strange, because the Biden administration, in its effort to appease the hard-left activists who dominate the Democratic Party and who ...Read more

When you think of the Biden administration’s climate investments, you may imagine subsidies for Tesla drivers in affluent coastal cities. But those investments are helping Americans at all income levels, in both small towns and urban areas. One example: The Biden administration is bringing clean, resilient solar power to federally funded ...Read more