On June 17, President Donald Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding laying out a framework for ending the war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. International media deemed this agreement as a significant diplomatic achievement. But inside Iran, a fundamental question remains: Whose peace is ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to intervene against Evanston, Illinois’ local reparations program is being framed as a defense of constitutional equality and the Fair Housing Act. In reality, it reflects a painfully shortsighted understanding of what equality requires when government itself amplified and even created enduring ...Read more

It has long been clear to anybody outside the die-hard MAGA scene that America First would sooner or later amount to America Alone. And still, the accelerating pace at which President Donald Trump is alienating other nations and isolating his own is breathtaking.

As one example of this pathology, consider his recent interactions with Italy’s ...Read more

For about a decade, hundreds of deep-sea buoys off America’s coasts have been monitoring the conditions of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The streams of publicly available data they produce inform weather reports, generate valuable information about the planet’s changing climate and help the maritime industry and even the military maneuver...Read more

Second lady Usha Vance’s due date is rapidly approaching. I have no idea how healthcare expenses are treated for the vice president’s family. But JD Vance has long been an advocate for $0 out-of-pocket costs for giving birth. He is not alone. A bicameral, bipartisan group in Congress is working to make free birth a reality for all Americans....Read more

June 2025’s 12-Day War and President Donald Trump’s Operation Epic Fury have shattered the myth of Iran’s military might, inflicting heavy losses on the Islamic Republic and forcing it to the negotiating table. However, Tehran is already attempting to reclaim through diplomacy what it lost on the battlefield. It wants a quick deal, and ...Read more

Have rising material expectations made marriage feel less attainable for today’s young adults?

Marriage rates have steadily been declining for several decades. Roughly one-third of Gen Z is expected to remain single by age 45, and to perhaps never marry at all.

A common reason young adults give for not being married is a lack of financial ...Read more

Student loans are a special kind of debt. They are an investment to increase someone’s future earnings, though they must be paid back before most of those earnings are realized. Most of the loans are directly from the government, which not so long ago was telling borrowers they wouldn’t have to pay them back, and didn’t require them to. ...Read more

As military action between the United States and Iran appears to be winding down and negotiations continue, the remaining issues are frustrating commentators eager to spin this as another example of endless conflict.

However, when measured by military capability, economic leverage, strategic positioning and long-term deterrence, the outcome is...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently stood before a cheering crowd in Brooklyn and delivered a troubling indictment of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel advocacy organization that has increasingly become a political villain in certain corners of both the left and right. Mamdani described AIPAC as one of the “...Read more

This month in Orlando, the Southern Baptist Convention — the largest Protestant denomination in America — took its first formal step toward barring women from preaching. Almost three-quarters of the voting delegates backed it. The millions of women who fill the pews every Sunday watched their own denomination move, by supermajority, to ...Read more

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall in Washington has turned pea green with algal growth — as shallow bodies of still water tend to do in summer when temperatures rise. President Trump’s $14-million no-bid “American flag blue” paint job was never going to stop that. It may in fact have contributed, as being darker than the previous ...Read more

The best thing that can be said about the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran is that it’s over.

Well, that it may be over. Trust between the three main actors.is strained to the snapping point, though nobody knows what will happen if it finally shatters.

Even if it lasts, the tenuously negotiated peace still carries a hefty price tag.

There are ...Read more

I was a girl in Philadelphia in the summer when America turned 200. The birthplace of America was electric in a way I've never forgotten — crowds stretching from the art museum steps down to the Delaware River, each city block corded off for parades, cookouts, celebrations, and the kind of noise that felt like belonging.

It was also, I know ...Read more

“Obsession,” this year’s hit indie horror film, opened to audiences made up of 60% Black, Latino and Asian filmgoers. “Backrooms” drew an audience comprised of 62% minority groups. “Michael” drew in 75% and “Scary Movie” topped the list with 76%.

That’s just the last four box office hits. If you look back at every hit across...Read more

Before Washington debates whether the latest agreement with Iran is a victory or a mistake, Americans should ask a more basic question: What happens if diplomacy fails?

Immediately after the 60-day ceasefire deal was announced, the political arguments began. Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana called the agreement a “tremendous foreign ...Read more

For Republicans in Congress who’ve been clinging to hope that President Donald Trump might finally focus on the economy ahead of the midterm elections, their time might be better spent searching for proof that the tooth fairy is real.

The same day Trump reaffirmed support for an agreement with Iran to end the war, he turned his attention to ...Read more

As the nation approaches its 250th anniversary on this July 4th, 2026, an uneasy feeling hangs over many of the celebrations: that this moment feels smaller than it should. Less unified. Less transcendent. Less shared.

There is a growing sense that America’s 250th anniversary is arriving without the kind of shared civic feeling such a ...Read more

When President Lyndon B. Johnson launched Head Start 61 years ago, he called it one of the most constructive and sensible programs ever undertaken by the U.S. government.

Today, it provides free learning and development programs to nearly 800,000 low-income kids from birth to age 5. Head Start is a vital resource that serves two generations at...Read more

In recent years, antiabortion groups and lawmakers have seeded a number of challenges to medication abortion. This year, several are coming to fruition.

In 2026, decisions from either the courts, Food and Drug Administration or Department of Justice could end telehealth for medication abortion.

Roughly two-thirds of Americans who end their ...Read more