The stories would stop any parent cold: Florida middle schooler Colton Remsburg, who was killed by a pickup truck while out buying flowers for his mom. California 13-year-old Angel Roman Mendoza Lopez, struck by a car while headed to a friend’s house. And 15-year-old Violet Harris, an honors student from Chicago, who died after being hit by a ...Read more

Think the Supreme Court is hopelessly divided? As it turns out, there is an issue that can produce unanimity among the justices: Using marijuana every other day isn’t a sufficient reason for the government to deprive Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms.

The 9-0 opinion correctly applies the radically originalist framework for...Read more

Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore.

The clearest indicator arrived this spring, when farm bankruptcies reached their highest level in six years. For many Americans, it was just another sad statistic. In rural communities, it was something far more ominous.

Risk and uncertainty have always ...Read more

When “data centers” and “climate change” are in the same sentence, it’s usually about how the former are fueling the latter with their thirst for energy. But the latter can also make life expensively miserable for the former. Maybe it’s not a great idea to pollute a planet if you have to share its atmosphere.

About 6% of nearly 3,...Read more

Kevin Warsh faces a truly daunting task. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve must avoid provoking a president he had to charm to get the job. He needs to repair relations with the Fed’s other policymakers, many of whom he recently criticized — not least, former Chair Jerome Powell, who remains on the central bank’s board for now. While...Read more

While it’s impossible to know whether President Donald Trump’s “memorandum of understanding” with Iran will be deemed by history to be a blip or a humiliating defeat for America (if it even holds), one thing looks increasingly clear: Israel lost.

That’s not just because Israel’s archenemy has arguably emerged more dangerous than ...Read more

Social Security is the bedrock of nearly every American’s retirement plan — the steady, dependable stream of income they can count on to guarantee them a basic standard of living in old age.

That foundation is now in jeopardy. According to the Social Security trustees, the program’s primary trust fund is on track to be depleted before ...Read more

Desperate Democrats are rapidly losing their media mouthpieces at a time when they need them more than ever to carry their water and disdain for President Donald Trump.

Their once formidable left wing media army – led by CNN, the Washington Post and 60 Minutes – is dwindling to just a ragtag few that have forfeited their power, influence, ...Read more

“Oh no, not us — not ever.” For 10 years running, that’s been the Democratic response to any suggestion that grassroots liberals are like Republican voters and equally susceptible to supporting scandal-plagued populists like President Donald Trump.

The only difference, it turned out, was timing.

Trump announced his 2016 presidential ...Read more

Republican attorneys general from 14 states — led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway — sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month demanding action on what they warn is “a growing threat to the country’s waterways.”

So what gives? Has America’s staunchly pro-industrial party suddenly ...Read more

Today’s 9-year-olds are significantly better readers than 9-year-olds were a half-century ago. Today’s 13-year-olds are not.

That’s the troubling lesson from the latest long-term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The results suggest that America has made real progress helping young children build ...Read more

Recently, during rounds, I met a patient who almost missed her own heart attack. She'd had chest pain for hours before she finally came in. Clinicians know what those hours cost. When asked why she had waited, her answer made my own heart sink. She had a high-deductible health plan — an HDHP — which meant she would owe thousands of dollars ...Read more

He was the killer of big blond spiders, the fixer of household things, an occasional Santa’s helper. Among his many acts of service, my father volunteered with Chicago’s Christmas Ship, bringing Christmas trees to disadvantaged families in the area.

My father was also a refugee.

Dad was 6 years old when his homeland of Germany attacked ...Read more

Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are giving us whiplash by changing their stories on employment. The most likely outcome is neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs...Read more

Outside Pittsburgh, a retired couple sitting around their dining-room table worries about whether Social Security will still be there in ten years. Their daughter and son-in-law, living across town, struggle with a different question: whether they will ever be able to buy a home, pay off their student loans, and raise two children without going ...Read more

A transgender teen tested Roo, Planned Parenthood’s AI-powered sexual health chatbot, which includes LGBTQ+ health topics, looking for private answers to questions many teens are afraid to ask out loud. Instead, the teen felt unseen. “It’s not so inclusive, which would deter me,” the teen said in a 2026 Journal of Medical Internet ...Read more

Many progressives elevated accused killer Luigi Mangione to folk-hero status after he was arrested and accused of gunning down a health insurance executive in cold blood in New York City in late 2024. The horrifically twisted theory is that executing business executives should be celebrated if it seemingly advances some left-wing cause du jour. ...Read more

Last week, I found myself in a situation that could soon be familiar to a lot more Americans: sliding into a CT scanner with a smattering of electrodes attached to my chest and ribs, my arms raised over my head. A serene voice asked me to take a small breath and hold it. A loudish whirring from the machine, a few shifts of the table, and another...Read more

If the deal the U.S. has struck with Iran to end hostilities in the Persian Gulf is welcome, it’s far from a victory. Any hopes of achieving more rest on whether the White House is willing to learn from this self-created mess.

According to the text of a memorandum of understanding disclosed to reporters by a senior administration official on ...Read more

When Graciela Dela Torre developed chronic pain while on the job at a freight company in the Chicago area, she did what millions of Americans have done: She filed a disability claim.

After a couple of years, her company’s insurance carrier decided she no longer qualified for compensation. Again, Dela Torre did what millions of Americans have ...Read more