In an ideal world, this week’s resignation of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary would signal the end of a troubling period at the agency — one where the job of overseeing a sizable chunk of the U.S. economy had steadily devolved into dysfunction and chaos.

Yet while Makary’s exit is welcome, it’s hard to imagine an ...Read more

Distraught that the Virginia Supreme Court invalidated a statewide referendum that would have enabled them to gerrymander their way to a 10-to-1 advantage in the state’s congressional delegation in November, up from the current 6-to-5 split, some Democrats are reportedly considering a novel response: firing the whole court.

They shouldn’t. ...Read more

“Tax the Rich” is a catchy, intuitive and politically potent slogan. In a period of rapid wealth creation alongside rising costs and constrained opportunity, it speaks to a real and widely felt imbalance. Whether one sees that divide as a moral failure or a market outcome, it demands attention.

The catchphrase’s simplicity, though, ...Read more

The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago was a roaring success and you didn’t have to be a partisan to admire its logistical prowess.

We recall marveling at how rapidly, and seamlessly, the convention planners switched gears from touting the accomplishments of President Joseph R. Biden to those of Vice President Kamala Harris, even ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- College students might imagine many nightmare scenarios during finals week.

A damaged laptop entombs an important essay. The least useful member of a group project accidentally deletes the shared Google document. A burrito consumed on the eve of a crucial presentation fulfills an untimely revenge.

But what if these horrors weren...Read more

Everyone in the United States deserves time to care for themselves and their loved ones, whether to see a baby’s first smile or hold the hand of a parent who takes their last. Recently, Virginia became one of a growing number of U.S. jurisdictions enacting statewide paid leave programs— forward-looking states that have taken matters into ...Read more

In February 2025, the richest man in modern history raised a chainsaw over his head to wild applause while on stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The image of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk donning a “Dark MAGA” hat, sunglasses indoors and a thick gold chain while wielding the bright red tool handed to him by Argentine...Read more

If you ask the average person to name one of today’s dictators, Russia’s Vladimir Putin would likely be the first to come to mind. The former career intelligence operative and mayor of St. Petersburg has ruled Russia’s political system since 1999, when a pickled President Boris Yeltsin called it quits and handed power over to Putin on an ...Read more

Colleges are failing today’s young adults — beyond grade inflation, junk courses and trading facts for ideology. Today’s college students going for a bachelor’s degree expect to earn roughly $80,000 one year after graduation — about $24,000 more than the average starting salary of $56,153, according to a survey by Clever Real Estate.

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As a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut or a baseball player.

When I realized I was prone to motion sickness, I backed off the astronaut plan. Later, I learned I couldn’t hit a curveball.

Today, at 65, after a career in media, I have a new plan: to be among the first to recover from ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which has an average ...Read more

Despite taking an oath (twice) to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Donald Trump clearly hasn’t read it. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the “Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises.”

So just as it did before with his first round of worldwide tariffs, the ...Read more

Before peace comes to President Donald Trump’s unwon Iran war and the world’s unopened Strait of Hormuz, global media’s big eye will be focusing this week on another of Asia’s militarily dire straits – the forever-tense Taiwan Strait.

On Thursday and Friday, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping plan to finally meet in Beijing’s ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom won’t admit it, but a move by President Donald Trump is especially helpful to drivers in California — and Nevada.

Gasoline prices are pressuring consumers around the country. On Friday, the average U.S. price was $4.55 a gallon. In California, that would be a bargain. The average there was $6.16 a gallon. Nevada...Read more

Forget about the $25 billion. That’s the estimate the Pentagon has tentatively picked for the direct cost of the Iran conflict, a sum that analysts consider laughably lowballed. The true expense of this U.S.-Israeli war of choice is much higher. It must include not just the global economic and humanitarian fallout, but the strategic ...Read more

Economists may disagree about how important the issue of wealth inequality is, but politicians don’t. With a majority of Americans saying the gap between rich and poor is a very big problem, punitive wealth taxes are gaining in popularity and some elected officials are feuding with their wealthiest citizens.

Now the wealthy are responding —...Read more

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy told the nation, “We choose to go to the moon.” It’s often remembered as a moment of national ambition. In reality, the United States was locked in a Cold War with the Soviet Union, and the fear of falling behind in technological dominance made the mission unavoidable.

Today’s space race is driven by a...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Here’s what the Democratic candidates for governor aren’t telling us: While promising the moon, they’ve avoided saying how they would keep paying for all of Sacramento’s current costly programs.

Termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Democratic-controlled Legislature have dug the state into a deep financial hole, ...Read more

In Tehran today, a single fried egg costs a million rials. This staggering price tag is not just an economic anomaly; it is the sound of a regime’s foundation cracking. While the world’s attention remains fixed on the military hardware of Iran’s regional proxies, the Islamic Republic’s greatest threat to survival has proved to be not the...Read more

Against the advice of leading medical societies, federal health officials recently upended a key component of newborn care: the universal recommendation that all infants receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.

The move came in December under the dubious leadership of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. ...Read more