If you follow education policy at all, you’ve probably heard about the looming “Fiscal Cliff.” As pandemic-era federal support runs out, school districts that used temporary funding to create permanent initiatives are going to fall over it.

But American K-12 education appears to be in the midst of an immediate and menacing development: A ...Read more

It’s complicated.

Student protests are taking over college campuses across the nation. The turmoil over the Israel-Hamas war has inspired youthful fervor that is reminiscent of the anti-war protests of the 1960s.

The Middle East saga has infected America’s domestic political milieu in significant and new ways. Since 1948, when the state of...Read more

Although college isn’t for everyone, earning a degree still offers a pathway to success for many Americans. Yet each year, hundreds of thousands of low-income, college-ready students never actually enroll, partly because the application process prioritizes administrative busywork over academics. Policymakers should work to make it simpler.

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Older adults add incredible value to America’s workforce. But increasingly seniors are returning to work to merely make ends meet. Low savings, longer lives and a rickety safety net are combining to present new challenges, especially here in Florida. It’s a reminder that society benefits both from ready employment and from protecting ...Read more

It’s dusk in spring, and the seven-year anniversary of my mother’s death from cancer is approaching, a death that marked the end of my biological family. I want to text my friend Margot, who lost her dad to AIDS in the spring years ago, and ask, “How do we survive this most heinous of losses? Bestie, how do we keep moving forward?”

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A healthy democracy requires civic morality. Absent a set of virtues, principles and norms, our constitutional order falls apart like an IKEA bed that’s missing screws. We must develop and adhere to a new civic code. This code should minimally instill within every American 10 commitments:

First, participate. Being a good citizen goes above ...Read more

College fraternities often make the news for hazings gone wrong, raising the ire of neighbors for loud parties and general boozy shenanigans. But amid the vitriol in play on college campuses, some frat bros are stepping up for values in short supply.

After a video appearing to show a white student making monkey noises at a Black student during ...Read more

It is hard to imagine Americans afraid to celebrate America. But as our nation’s 250th birthday approaches in 2026, there is already some nervous hand-wringing about how citizens should respond.

Should the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence be a time of celebration, a period of atonement for the uglier aspects...Read more

It would be easy to believe that antisemitism in Texas is a problem only for the political right.

Just Google “antisemitism, Texas” and the most prominent headline returned from the Texas Tribune reads, “Jewish Texans see surge in antisemitism as precursor to fascism.”

The accompanying story, from late 2022, tracks a rise in reported ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s statement that he would be “happy” to debate Donald J. Trump means that voters will have at least one opportunity to see the two major-party candidates answer questions side by side. Aside from satisfying some viewers’ interest in whether the elderly candidates display mental lapses, debates offer an opportunity for...Read more

This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people — or more than 40% of the world’s population — able to vote in an election. But nearly five months into 2024, some government officials are quietly wondering why the looming risk of AI hasn’t, apparently, played out.

Even as voters in Indonesia and ...Read more

Minnesota's largest school district is a recent example of the culture conflicts that are occurring in education, politics and other areas across Minnesota and America. Half of the Anoka-Hennepin school board had threatened to hold up the annual budget process late last month unless some of the district's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...Read more

President Biden’s recent pro-housing pivot didn’t come a moment too soon. Even though the housing shortage is long-standing, well-known and worse in blue cities, high housing costs somehow sneaked up on Democrats.

By facing the crisis head on, Biden and his fellow Democrats can show voters they’re committed to expanding and strengthening ...Read more

My mother once said to me, “A mother’s work is never done.” It wasn’t until I became a parent myself that I grasped the depth of this token of wisdom. Mother’s Day is a time to acknowledge the hard work mothers do and the sacrifices they make every single day. But as we honor human mothers, let’s also extend recognition to mothers of...Read more

Asked last week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel if he would accept the outcome of the November election, Donald Trump responded: “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country. If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found...Read more

Iran’s supreme leader has been enjoying himself lately on X, Elon Musk’s social media platform. In one post, he delighted at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses; in another, it was someone waving the flag of Hezbollah, his proxy militia in Lebanon. Here was proof, said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that even in the Great Satan itself the world...Read more

President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment.

One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, adding more than 105,000 acres of mountains and foothills above communities from Sylmar to ...Read more

Donald Trump has put America on notice: If he loses the presidential election, he reserves the right to encourage his followers to fight.

When Time magazine asked Trump whether the election would end in political violence if he loses, the former president replied: "If we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an ...Read more

“[A]s a company, we have a responsibility to engage. For this reason, we are working together with other businesses through groups like the Business Roundtable to support efforts to enhance every person’s ability to vote.”

These were the words of AT&T CEO John Stankey, responding to a Georgia law that limited absentee voting. A similar ...Read more