Boeing’s latest figures reveal an industrial paradox. The company ended the second quarter late last month with a record backlog of about $715 billion in outstanding orders, including for more than 6,200 commercial aircraft. That’s not as encouraging as it sounds, though, because its central problem is not how to sell more planes. It is how ...Read more

Movies are back! (Again.)

We’ve seen stories in the recent past about how going to the movies was becoming a thing again — see “Barbenheimer” in 2023 — only to see consumers retreat to their in-home streaming lives. But 2026 may actually be different.

If so, we’ll have Generation Z — the first generation to grow up entirely in ...Read more

California lawmakers are poised to raise already unaffordable public employee retirement benefits — doubling down on a mistake 27 years ago that has helped drive up taxpayer pension costs by more than eightfold.

This time, state legislators have a quarter century of painful experience to consider and have been warned of the multi-billion-...Read more

It’s no secret that the Supreme Court has become an extension of our partisan politics over the past decade. The decisions handed down in the 2026 session prove just how broken the court has become and how unrepresentative it is of the views of the American people. Reactions show how little confidence the public has in its fairness.

Future ...Read more

If you aren’t among the millions of pickleball players, the fastest growing sport in America, watch “The Dink” on Apple TV to get a glimpse of what you’re missing.

Jake Johnson plays Dusty, a former tennis prodigy whose career was thwarted early when he broke his wrist during a match with the for-real tennis star Andy Roddick. Now he ...Read more

Every U.S. president over the last 20 years has tried to move the United States out of the Middle East, an area so steeped in bad history and poor policy that one wonders why Washington bothers to be involved in the region at all. Barack Obama campaigned on ending the George W. Bush-era war in Iraq, only to direct a surge of 50,000 U.S. troops ...Read more

Many historians and security experts agree that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which continues to reshape the world, did not begin on Feb. 24, 2022. It began much earlier, on July 12, 2021, when Russian leader Vladimir Putin published his essay “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” arguing that Russians and ...Read more

Democratic voters are setting up a high-stakes, real-world messaging test in the states most important to their hopes of recapturing the presidency.

The most direct path back to the White House for Democrats in 2028 is to retake Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the three states that President Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024 dislodged from ...Read more

It appears that President Donald Trump is livid at Pete Hegseth. Not long ago the president still cooed that his macho secretary of defense “loves war,” including the one Trump launched in Iran. Now that war is turning out to be unwinnable and seemingly unendable. So Trump, venting his frustration at Camp David, wanted to know why Hegseth ...Read more

Given America’s political environment, you would be forgiven for thinking the country has slipped into a dark age of energy recidivism; burning oil, gas and coal left and right; and tossing wind and solar farms on the scrap heap.

In reality, this is looking a lot like a golden age for renewable energy in the U.S., not just in spite of the ...Read more

Last month, the House passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 with bipartisan support, as evidenced by a 308-117 vote. It will now move to the Senate for consideration. President Donald Trump has stated he will sign it into law if it reaches his desk.

This is the first time that the House has managed to pass a bill making daylight saving...Read more

It was about one year ago that the Trump administration announced a truly eye-opening transaction: In return for an $8.9 billion investment in the chipmaker already authorized under the Biden-era CHIPS Act, the government would take a roughly 10% stake in Intel shares — making the government Intel's largest shareholder.

Was this a good deal?...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police Officer Daniel Flores may have broken the law when he secretly recorded his colleagues making ugly, unacceptable comments that were variously racist, homophobic, misogynistic or otherwise gross and unprofessional at best.

So L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman is right to take this, or any, violation ...Read more

To listen to representatives of the U.S. government lately, you’d think the United States is at imminent risk of a communist takeover. “Communism is the single greatest threat to our country and its history,” President Donald Trump said in a recent speech outside Atlanta.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has likened the midterms to a battle ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s weird hatred of offshore wind energy is costing a lot as Uncle Sam has to pay off the companies which had invested in the canceled projects.

For the fifth time now, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money, not for building something, but in fact for not building it. The German ...Read more

Cincinnati is known for its chili, ice cream and devoted sports fans. But these days, the Queen City is banking on other assets to secure its future, and we think Chicago should be paying attention.

Cincinnati sits on the banks of the Ohio River, which (along with an underground aquifer) provides it with ample fresh water. Its location in the ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s proposed sweeping changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, whether ever actually implemented or not, are yet another affront to public health in the U.S.

No new evidence is being offered to justify the proposed overhaul, which arrived via executive order on Monday and calls for cutting back the number of vaccines ...Read more

America is debating budgets, taxes, deficits, and spending priorities. Those discussions are necessary. But amid the political arguments, we cannot lose sight of a simple truth: every budget reflects our values.

Nearly every American hopes to grow old. Yet growing old with dignity has become increasingly difficult for many seniors living on ...Read more

The numbers are alarming. More than half a million mail ballots cast in the 2024 elections were rejected and never counted. Not because they were illegitimate, but because voters often made easily avoidable mistakes.

They forgot to sign and date the envelope or get a witness to sign. Or their signature was out of date. Or they simply used the ...Read more

Every generation believes its technologies are about to destabilize the world.

The printing press initially was accused of eroding authority and unleashing uncontrollable voices. Railways were said to compress space unnaturally, disturbing body and mind. The telephone threatened the centrality of the public square; television, the vitality of ...Read more