Keir Starmer has informed King Charles III of his intention to depart 10 Downing Street. By September, the UK will have its seventh prime minister in the span of a decade. It’s all but certain now that the man taking the helm of the good ship Great Britain will be Andy Burnham.

There are many reasons Burnham may struggle to do much better ...Read more

“If liberty means anything at all,” wrote George Orwell, in a preface to Animal Farm, “it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” Generations of students have been taught that lesson. Yet some of the world’s most robust democracies are in danger of forgetting it.

The UK’s recent decision to deny entry to two ...Read more

As a minister and a rabbi, we write to decry the 2026 House Farm Bill that was sent to the Senate in late May. The bill, as written, is cruel and will increase suffering.

It threatens to push even more farmers out of business while eliminating democratically enacted bans on some of agriculture’s cruelest practices. The Farm Bill, which the ...Read more

This July 4, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that throws off the yoke of a divinely appointed ruler. But President Donald Trump is exploiting this occasion to promote a revisionist history of America as “one nation under God.”

These words, importantly, appear nowhere...Read more

When Washington debates international alliances, the conversation usually sounds like a corporate ledger sheet. Critics often treat the North Atlantic Treaty Organization like a bad business transaction, complaining that European nations must “cover their own asses” and stop relying so heavily on American military dollars. It is a message ...Read more

I was seated onstage at Grand Valley State University’s commencement when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak leaned into the microphone and reframed the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in six words.

“You all have AI — actual intelligence.”

The arena erupted. Not polite applause — genuine, full-throated cheering from ...Read more

The stories would stop any parent cold: Florida middle schooler Colton Remsburg, who was killed by a pickup truck while out buying flowers for his mom. California 13-year-old Angel Roman Mendoza Lopez, struck by a car while headed to a friend’s house. And 15-year-old Violet Harris, an honors student from Chicago, who died after being hit by a ...Read more

Think the Supreme Court is hopelessly divided? As it turns out, there is an issue that can produce unanimity among the justices: Using marijuana every other day isn’t a sufficient reason for the government to deprive Americans of their constitutional right to bear arms.

The 9-0 opinion correctly applies the radically originalist framework for...Read more

Something is breaking in farm country, and the warning signs are growing harder to ignore.

The clearest indicator arrived this spring, when farm bankruptcies reached their highest level in six years. For many Americans, it was just another sad statistic. In rural communities, it was something far more ominous.

Risk and uncertainty have always ...Read more

When “data centers” and “climate change” are in the same sentence, it’s usually about how the former are fueling the latter with their thirst for energy. But the latter can also make life expensively miserable for the former. Maybe it’s not a great idea to pollute a planet if you have to share its atmosphere.

About 6% of nearly 3,...Read more

Kevin Warsh faces a truly daunting task. The new chairman of the Federal Reserve must avoid provoking a president he had to charm to get the job. He needs to repair relations with the Fed’s other policymakers, many of whom he recently criticized — not least, former Chair Jerome Powell, who remains on the central bank’s board for now. While...Read more

While it’s impossible to know whether President Donald Trump’s “memorandum of understanding” with Iran will be deemed by history to be a blip or a humiliating defeat for America (if it even holds), one thing looks increasingly clear: Israel lost.

That’s not just because Israel’s archenemy has arguably emerged more dangerous than ...Read more

Social Security is the bedrock of nearly every American’s retirement plan — the steady, dependable stream of income they can count on to guarantee them a basic standard of living in old age.

That foundation is now in jeopardy. According to the Social Security trustees, the program’s primary trust fund is on track to be depleted before ...Read more

Desperate Democrats are rapidly losing their media mouthpieces at a time when they need them more than ever to carry their water and disdain for President Donald Trump.

Their once formidable left wing media army – led by CNN, the Washington Post and 60 Minutes – is dwindling to just a ragtag few that have forfeited their power, influence, ...Read more

“Oh no, not us — not ever.” For 10 years running, that’s been the Democratic response to any suggestion that grassroots liberals are like Republican voters and equally susceptible to supporting scandal-plagued populists like President Donald Trump.

The only difference, it turned out, was timing.

Trump announced his 2016 presidential ...Read more

Republican attorneys general from 14 states — led by Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway — sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency earlier this month demanding action on what they warn is “a growing threat to the country’s waterways.”

So what gives? Has America’s staunchly pro-industrial party suddenly ...Read more

Today’s 9-year-olds are significantly better readers than 9-year-olds were a half-century ago. Today’s 13-year-olds are not.

That’s the troubling lesson from the latest long-term trend data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The results suggest that America has made real progress helping young children build ...Read more

Recently, during rounds, I met a patient who almost missed her own heart attack. She'd had chest pain for hours before she finally came in. Clinicians know what those hours cost. When asked why she had waited, her answer made my own heart sink. She had a high-deductible health plan — an HDHP — which meant she would owe thousands of dollars ...Read more

He was the killer of big blond spiders, the fixer of household things, an occasional Santa’s helper. Among his many acts of service, my father volunteered with Chicago’s Christmas Ship, bringing Christmas trees to disadvantaged families in the area.

My father was also a refugee.

Dad was 6 years old when his homeland of Germany attacked ...Read more

Spinning a good narrative is critical to selling artificial intelligence these days. But the leaders of today’s biggest labs are giving us whiplash by changing their stories on employment. The most likely outcome is neither a job apocalypse nor productivity utopia, but something harder to measure: a quiet degradation of the quality of the jobs...Read more