The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week to vacate an order, from an already dismissed lawsuit limiting the Department of Homeland Security’s tactics against journalists and protesters, is a misuse of judicial power.

If the appellate court insists on granting relief no one asks for, it has far better targets than an injunction ...Read more

An antiquated 105-year-old American law threatens to exacerbate the energy shocks triggered by the Iran war. President Donald Trump should urge Congress to reform or get rid of it.

Energy markets remained volatile Wednesday, but the price of oil now sits well below the $120 a barrel it briefly hit Monday. Gasoline prices continue to be elevated...Read more

Anyone tuning into the State of the Union expecting responsible governance was sorely disappointed. What they got instead was pure Trumpian spectacle.

All the familiar elements were there: extended applause lines, culture-war provocation, even self-congratulation, praising the U.S. hockey team and folding its victory into a broader narrative of...Read more

I won’t let St. Patrick’s Day pass without wearing something green and reaching for a glass of something that has been produced through fermentation or distillation. It is the least I can do for all the ways the Irish have enriched the world, but especially the English language, and me.

When it comes to writing, the Irish have what might be...Read more

If you’re a sports fan, you likely watched coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano Cortina. But will you watch the Paralympics when approximately 665 athletes are expected in Italy to compete in the Para sports of alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, snowboarding, and wheelchair curling?

The Paralympics, so-called...Read more

In politics, we often become captivated by personalities. Charismatic leaders dominate headlines, command television screens and shape public imagination. Their speeches, ambitions and conflicts can seem to define entire eras. Yet history reminds us of a deeper and more enduring truth: While leaders may shape moments, cultures shape eras.

The ...Read more

When Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo asked White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt Sunday whether the war in Iran might require ground troops or even a military draft, Leavitt responded in general terms that neither possibility was “part of the current plan right now,” but that the president “wisely keeps his options on the table.” ...Read more

On a cool, bright afternoon in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, roughly 100 to 150 men, women and even a few children gathered along Roosevelt Road for a pop-up peaceful protest marking International Women’s Day. At one of the suburb’s busiest intersections, people lined the sidewalks holding handmade signs and banners as traffic ...Read more

The rapid adoption of weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound represents one of the most striking cultural shifts in weight management I’ve witnessed in nearly 30 years of studying and writing about body image.

These medications were developed to treat diabetes and, more recently, approved for weight management for people...Read more

The first images that come to mind when you hear “Admin night” might be of a fun evening out for office support staff, but the trend is significantly less entertaining. As one primer on the practice put it, it’s a “great productivity hack.” Instead of happy hour, friends gather for a night of doing their taxes, answering emails and ...Read more

The federal government seems to be barreling toward a federal election power grab. Trump's State of the Union address called for the Senate to push through the SAVE Act, which has already passed the House, in the name of so-called "election integrity."

And the SAVE Act isn’t the only such bill. Like the SAVE Act, the Make Elections Great ...Read more

An ugly feature of the Republican Party in the MAGA era resurfaced this month in Florida, even though the GOP has long been trying to hide it.

A WhatsApp group chat for Republican students started by the secretary of the Miami-Dade County GOP was recently leaked to the Miami Herald and the conservative website The Floridian. Messages from last ...Read more

In the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians were displaced in one of the fastest mass movements of people in recent history. Train stations became shelters. Theaters became aid centers. Borders became waiting rooms for grief. Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without ...Read more

National Nutrition Month drifts in each March like the first warm breeze after winter, inviting us to pause, look at our plates and pose a simple question: What truly nourishes us?

Study after study and expert after expert point to the same answer: Choosing vegan foods is one of the most powerful ways to fine-tune nutrition while protecting ...Read more

The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf.

Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant revisions. That’s troubling because major decision-makers from Washington to Wall Street no longer have reliable data, and the consequences ...Read more

Alarmed by rising rates of obesity, public health officials have urged Americans for decades to eat better, move more, and make healthier choices. Yet, obesity rates kept rising, peaking at 40 percent of Americans in 2022. The decline since then is clearly linked to something else: a new class of medications known as GLP-1.

The arrival of these...Read more

There was a time when the Democratic Party adhered to the needs of the working class. It advanced public services for the collective good and met corporate greed with rigorous regulation. One such visionary among the Democrats was Frances Perkins, the U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It was under Perkins’s ...Read more

Not to pile on, but while we’re tallying transgressions against ex-U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired by President Donald Trump last week, we should not forget the often-overlooked death of another American citizen who was killed by an ICE agent under her watch.

Every time news articles or commentators mention the ...Read more

The polls make it obvious: Americans are dissatisfied with their leaders. That sense of grievance applies to presidents, of course, as both Donald Trump and predecessor Joe Biden have chalked up dismally low approval ratings. But the frustrations go well beyond those two supposed leaders of the free world.

Across public service, business, ...Read more

There’s never been a film like “Sinners,” an actual fact even if it wins absolutely nothing Sunday night at the Oscars, because its 16 nominations have already established that there’s never been a film like “Sinners.”

Whether it wins a record-breaking 12 Academy Awards and launches into our cultural history as the most decorated ...Read more