Telehealth company Hims & Hers unleashed a wild few days in the obesity drug market last week when it introduced a cheap, compounded version of Novo Nordisk’s new Wegovy pill.

It was an audacious attempt for a piece of the lucrative GLP-1 market that came to a swift and disastrous end — the company pulled its product just two days after its...Read more

Republicans who minimize President Donald Trump’s sliding job approval ratings typically emphasize that his agenda contains many popular policies. Those arguments misunderstand what makes for successful political leadership.

Even though some White House policies are popular, policy is but one leg of the three-legged stool of political ...Read more

This year marks the 100th year for Black history to be formally recognized nationally. Started in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as Negro History Week, the month is used to spotlight the true picture and often overlooked contributions and achievements of Black Americans despite the systemic challenges they faced.

Essential to that picture ...Read more

“What happens to a nation when its citizens largely stop having children and, when they do, eschew marriage?” asks the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington think tank. The size of its 164-page report “Saving America by Saving the Family” is outdone only by the 60-by-30-foot banner draped across the outside of its building. ...Read more

On the streets of Iran in recent weeks, security forces have killed thousands of protesters demanding basic rights and opposing the state’s authority. That stark image is not meant to equate our politics with theirs, but it poses a question Americans cannot ignore: What does it look like when government violence becomes routine and when ...Read more

Imagine taking your SUV in for a new fuel pump, only to have the mechanic dismantle a nearby motorcycle and pronounce, “This one might work!” Most everyone would know to bolt for the door, but tragically, experimenters toying with xenotransplantation—cutting organs out of genetically engineered animals and stitching them inside humans—...Read more

In most industries, leaders can respond quickly when market conditions change. Within months, companies can shrink or expand their workforces, adopt innovative technologies, and reconfigure operations.

Health care lacks such flexibility. It takes a decade to train new physicians. Hospitals take years to plan, fund, and build — years longer ...Read more

The more divided we become, the more absurd it all starts to look.

Not because the problems aren’t real—they are—but because the patterns are. The outrage cycles. The villains rotate. The language escalates. And yet the outcomes remain stubbornly the same: more anger, less trust, and very little that resembles progress.

This isn’t a ...Read more

Newspaper billionaire deciders are demolishing their news media hobbies like bored kids disassembling the electric trains they’ve outgrown.

And TV news-CEOs have already scrapped most of their professionally reported, scripted, edited, soundbite-packed news packages not because they got bored, but because of quality costs. So they’ve mostly...Read more

President Donald Trump, in the face of domestic and international resistance, appears to have ruled out, at least for now, the use of military force to acquire Greenland. While the heat has been turned down in the short term, the longer-term consequences of Trump’s recklessness for the Arctic are unlikely to be worthy of celebration.

If Trump...Read more

We’re one year in, and President Donald Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical analogies. Critics have invoked King George III and the Revolutionary War (“No Kings!”), flirted with comparisons to Nazi Germany (subtlety has never been our strong suit as Americans) — and lately have escalated to ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California may be headed toward killing the billionaire birds that lay the golden eggs needed to nourish this Golden State.

The English fable about the farmer and his wife who foolishly whack their golden goose comes to mind when I think about the proposed billionaire tax in California.

The couple possessed a bird that ...Read more

It says a lot about the state of affairs when a Puerto Rican singer and rapper does more to unify the country in about 13 minutes than the president of the United States has done in the past 13 months.

Bad Bunny’s halftime performance at Super Bowl XL was all about love, while Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office is focused on hate.

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America’s largest libertarian thinktank just produced a study that blows up the Trump administration’s claims about the horrible economic damage immigrants are doing.

Specifically that, in the words of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, they “suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars” who “snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS,�...Read more

President Donald Trump’s defenders often counsel me along these lines: Don’t listen to what Trump says; watch what he does.

But saying something is also doing something. And some things, once said, cannot be unsaid. Here are three examples:

Let’s make the point with an example that pre-dates Trump’s presidencies: During the 2016 ...Read more

For decades, Los Angeles business and political figures have focused their attention on creating a sleek, vibrant downtown. The common thought, as the late Eli Broad suggested, has been, “a great city needs a great downtown.”

This notion of a revived downtown is still embraced by booster groups and the Urban Land Institute. Yet despite the ...Read more

More than a year after the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the economic aftershocks of the disaster still permeate the lives of the people who survived it. Fewer than a dozen homes in some of the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods have been fully rebuilt. Families remain scattered across temporary rentals, and many are still grappling with letters ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her flunkies may have expected a population that would cow before the masked, armed agents dispatched to Minnesota. Instead, the Twin Cities refuse to break.

Individuals organized. Tens of thousands have marched. While Operation Metro Surge continues, its implementation here is a ...Read more