For many of us, the summer is ending in a paroxysm of grief. Perennials we believed would last forever have perished.

Over mere weeks, we lost a legendary performer, a feminist trailblazer and a living memorial.

I never met Dolly Parton, but I feel as if I knew her. Don’t we all? And while I heard her perform many times, it was her acting ...Read more

Twenty-eight years ago, I was a high school student in Sunnyside, Washington, when I first learned how directly politics could shape the course of a life.

On November 3rd, 1998, the passage of I-200, which eliminated affirmative action in college admissions, made me wonder whether students like me — First Gen, Rural, Low Income, Chicano — ...Read more

Democrat Mary Peltola has many things breaking her way in her bid to unseat Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan in Alaska. But Sullivan has one big thing working for him. Whether that’s enough will likely determine whether he wins reelection — while also offering clues about the fate of other red-state Republican senators this year.

Alaska ...Read more

A Massachusetts couple chose a breeder recommended by a friend. They received photos and videos of the puppy they wanted and paid a substantial amount for her, believing they had found a breeder they could trust. Then the puppy arrived.

In Time magazine, veterinarian Dr. Karen Fine recalled examining the tiny dog just days after the family ...Read more

Picture a family living on a quiet street in an idyllic small town. Then a data center moves in next door. Trees are knocked down for a sprawling industrial campus, an enormous windowless building rises, and a maddening hum continues day and night. The family closes its windows, abandons the backyard, and struggles to sleep. Open space ...Read more

Friday marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. While much of the focus rightly goes to the catastrophic attacks on the World Trade Center, Americans must remember that the attacks were strategically coordinated to target the Pentagon, as well as a planned attempt on a target in Washington, D.C., possibly the U.S....Read more

Who would have guessed that conspiracy mongering and civil unrest could be good for us.

(I did, kind of, at least the part about civil unrest unexpectedly serving a greater public good. But until Donald Trump flooded the airways and choked our politics with one made-up conspiracy after another, I didn’t see the connection between these fake ...Read more

Few who lived through the horror of Sept. 11, 2001, could have imagined that the next 25 years would pass without another large-scale attack on American soil. What was far more predictable and harmful, though, is the damage we’ve inflicted on ourselves and on the constitutional system of checks and balances meant to protect us and our ...Read more

Few memories are more vivid for most Americans than the images of New York City’s twin towers collapsing in flame and dust against a cloudless blue sky on September 11, 2001. But 25 years later, the policy legacy of the al-Qaida attacks is much cloudier.

America’s domestic response — from changes in airport security to greater ...Read more

At 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, I was on a plane somewhere over Connecticut. I was flying from Logan to La Guardia, on my way from my home near Boston to teach my second week of class as a baby professor at New York University Law School, when the pilot told us we were going into a holding pattern because a plane had just hit the World Trade ...Read more

For those of us alive on Sept. 11, 2001 — fully one-third of people in the United States today were not, and millions more were too young for memories — it's hard to believe that it has been 25 years since that horrific day. And yet it isn't difficult at all, given the transformational changes dating from that time that remain a fact of ...Read more

Just when you thought the Lindsay Clancy case couldn’t get any worse, click-chasing social media conspiracy theorists have dragged it to a new low.

Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mom accused of murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, eight months, has been on the receiving end of a vicious ...Read more

Who could have imagined, as we sat glued to the screen watching ash-covered victims frantically flee the falling World Trade Center towers, that the type of terrorism threatening us 25 years later would turn 9/11 on its head.

On that terrible day, Americans stood united against the assault, political rhetoric cast aside in the horrific moment. ...Read more

“Protecting our nation from those who would do us harm is the first and most important responsibility of government.” That’s from the website of Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat. But it could be any lawmaker, or any president, Democrat or Republican. Almost all proclaim it, and by their own standard, almost all are failing — ...Read more

At Jackson Hole last month, all eyes were on Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh in his first speech at the Fed’s annual conference. But all thoughts were about the Fed’s rate decision next week.

Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard economist who was at Jackson Hole as a lunchtime speaker, offered this advice to a New York Times journalist: “If they ...Read more

“Bobby Unleashed” is the West Wing’s midterms motto, according to reporting by Politico. But what exactly is Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. being unleashed to do? Because the biggest MAHA policy reforms have run into that familiar Washington foe: old-fashioned bureaucracy. And while many Americans still do want to “Make America ...Read more

On Aug. 10, in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling American parents to break the measles, mumps, and rubella shot into three separate injections and to space childhood vaccines across many more trips to the doctor.

He said the change would "align the United States with other advanced and developed nations....Read more

Is a hissy fit worth $200 million?

That was the tab in 2021, when California held a recall election less than a year before Gov. Gavin Newsom was set to face voters.

There was angst — the COVID-19 pandemic was raging. There was anger — the lifesaving restrictions imposed by Washington and Sacramento made daily living a chore and drove many...Read more

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, yet lawmakers in just half of states require teaching about the terrorist event. This is an improvement over just three years ago, but lawmakers cannot afford to allow this remembrance to pass each year without making the event and its aftermath part of classroom instruction.

In 2023...Read more