The last 10 days have arguably been one of the toughest periods of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s tenure since the war with Russia commenced more than four years ago. Ukrainian cities are getting pummeled daily with Russian missiles. Ukraine’s stock of missile interceptors is running dangerously low. And Ukraine’s political ...Read more

France’s crisis keeps getting more extreme, spilling over the weekend into broader protests that precipitated hundreds of millions of euros in damage and nearly 2,400 arrests. The country’s leaders are rightly focused on curtailing the violence. Yet as they seek ways to placate a frustrated populace, they must be careful not to make a bad ...Read more

With measles’ alarming resurgence in Minnesota and across the nation, voters should know where political candidates stand on the most effective protection available against this disease and many other dangerous infections: vaccination.

Specifically, do candidates intend to protect — or weaken — longstanding immunization requirements for ...Read more

If you watch as many of President Donald Trump’s rally speeches as I do—and I watch them at levels no one has ever seen before—you begin to hear the same lines, phrases and anecdotes again and again.

Watch enough of his speeches and you can predict the next sentence: We were a “dead” country when Trump took over; now we’re the “...Read more

“If you see something, say something,” the public awareness campaign tells us. A Taco Bell employee recently did just that — he called the police about a co-worker’s disturbing, hate-filled behavior. Police moved swiftly and thwarted an unprecedented attack on the largest Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois, potentially saving hundreds of ...Read more

On the morning of June 11, 2001, readers of the Terre Haute Tribune-Star turned to an inside page of the main section and saw a family in front of a television. In the full-page ad, the father shakes his fist at the TV while the mother and children lean in as the set casts its light across the darkened den like a projector in a picture palace. A...Read more

Five years ago, youth mental health was at a tipping point. Pediatricians, child and adolescent psychiatrists and children’s hospitals saw this crisis playing out on the frontlines and our organizations took the step together to declare a national emergency in youth mental health.

While we’ve seen some bright spots of progress, children ...Read more

Nicole Noren spent 24 years at ESPN, much of that time producing award-winning investigative journalism on difficult topics, including human trafficking, sexual abuse, and concussions. But as ESPN embraced sports betting, Noren, in a new interview with Columbia Journalism Review, says the network repeatedly rejected her proposals to investigate...Read more

As we close in on the halfway point of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, it is a good time to take stock of how the American system of free enterprise is holding up.

The Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index was just released by the Fraser Institute. It uses 46 indicators grouped into five areas to assess the degree to ...Read more

On Jan. 7, 2025, leaders from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and Pasadena Police and Fire departments worked tirelessly from separate trailers in the Rose Bowl parking lots as they managed the Eaton fire response.

The county’s incident commander didn’t even learn the fire had swept through west ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When does positive reform become negative regression? That’s what Californians need to answer before voting on Proposition 45, which would substantially change the state’s landmark environmental protection law.

The business-backed ballot measure would make it much easier and less costly to build loads of projects —...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- It was a sexist joke, and not very funny at that.

During his recent "Saturday Night Live" monologue, comedian Shane Gillis observed that women working out in gyms these days dress like "w—." And then, proving his powerlessness in the face of so much Lycra, he added, "There's no other way to describe it."

Well, Shane, it's ...Read more

With just two weeks left until election day, Democrats can barely contain their glee.

Control of the House seems about to fall into their eager laps. Senate races in states that are normally cardinal red — Alaska, Iowa, Kansas and Texas among them — have grown fiercely competitive.

And, for the first time since 2010, a Democrat may soon be...Read more

Katie Zacharia was a good fit to be Donald Trump’s White House press secretary, meaning she would to say anything to please the boss. But she was a lousy liar who became ridiculed for calling herself a lawyer despite never passing the bar exam and Trump canned her after five days and a single brief single disastrous press conference on Tuesday...Read more

If you'd like to live near the water along the spectacular California coast at some point in your life, you have a number of options.

You can settle in, say, Culver City, which is several miles inland, and wait for rising tides to arrive.

Or, if you just can't wait that long, I saw a listing you might be interested in. It's in Capitola, near ...Read more

Step away from the minute-by-minute news cycle for a moment and consider what two of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have wreaked: Russia and the United States, with their illegal wars against Ukraine and Iran, share much of the blame for reversing a whole generation’s progress in the fight against hunger.

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Anyone walking along the boulevards of Paris on Sunday afternoon will have sensed the “shame and anger” described by President Emmanuel Macron after a weekend of rioting.

Smashed-in storefronts, boarded-up windows and charred makeshift barricades hinted at the looting that hit some 1,500 stores across the country. Dozens of armored cops ...Read more

I didn’t need a national report to tell me what single mothers need to survive because I’ve been there; I’ve lived it.

In partnership with the Urban Institute, my group, the Jeremiah Program— a national nonprofit working to make economic mobility possible for single mothers and their children — published “Elevating Their Voices: ...Read more