The failure to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was a missed opportunity to demonstrate the United States is ready to resume a more responsible role in the world again.

The midterm elections delivered historic losses to President Donald Trump’s party in a clear indictment of the direction his administration has taken this country. ...Read more

The political drama resulting from Democrats’ landslide midterm victory will start in early December with budget talks, especially those focused on defense spending. The plot is as tangled as a daytime soap opera. Legislators have already taken a stab at removing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and the Iran war hangs over negotiations like a ...Read more

“He’s irreplaceable,” Larry Ellison said.

The year was 2009 and Oracle Corp.’s then-chief executive officer was talking about his friend Steve Jobs, who had recently returned to lead Apple Inc. after a liver transplant. Pundits would later go on to say the same about Jeff Bezos, that Amazon.com Inc.’s founder and CEO had “no viable ...Read more

Meta has rolled out its new AI assistant, the Muse Charm. The marketing feels deliberately disarming. Charm is a keychain-size gadget that looks like something you’d find in a child’s bedroom, a distant cousin of Furby or a Pixar character. It’s soft and approachable. Nothing about its appearance suggests the power of the technology behind...Read more

There’s a woman on the streets of San José who has spent a quarter of her life there. For the past decade she’s been cycling between the streets, the county jail, a shelter bed and the ER.

She keeps falling through the cracks. The specifics of her case are unique, but the pattern is ubiquitous and familiar in every city across California. ...Read more

In its first two seasons, the HBO Max series “The Pitt” about the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, has received over 30 nominations and has won 11 Emmy’s including Outstanding Drama Series for the last two consecutive years. It may be fair to say, “The Pitt” has connected.

People ask me constantly: Is "The Pitt" real?

They...Read more

Buried in the early hours of last week’s election day coverage, President Donald Trump called into “Fox & Friends” to announce that U.S. foreign aid to Israel will cease by the end of the year.

This aid package has been grossly misrepresented as a drag on the American economy and a compromise to our security but has actually benefited the...Read more

Richard A. Posner’s day job from 1981 to 2017 was as an appellate judge in the federal court system, but that did not prevent him from serving simultaneously as one of Chicago’s most interesting and iconoclastic public intellectuals. He did not merely apply the law but wondered aloud of its purpose. To students at the University of Chicago ...Read more

When lawmakers passed a state law last year that bans local government from funding and promoting DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives, Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick to crow that the measure was on-brand for Florida, the state “where woke goes to die.”

It may be time for the governor to rewrite that line. Thanks to him and the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Roberto Lazzeri Montaño has a Sisyphean task ahead of him as Mexico's new ambassador to the United States.

The relationship between the two countries — forever adversarial yet eternally co-dependent — has become even more fraught under President Trump, who infamously declared, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not ...Read more

Now that Democrats have regained control of the House, they will likely embark on a mission to expand government in the name of making health care more affordable. The House Democrats’ Cost of Living Health Care Working Group put out a new plan that doubles down on old ideas of government expansion—subsidies and mandates instead of choice ...Read more

The growing number of American infants going without a potentially lifesaving intervention — the vitamin K shot — should be a clarion call to top U.S. health officials.

But instead of a concerted federal effort to restore confidence in the shot, which can prevent dangerous bleeding in infants, the U.S. seems poised to let the situation get ...Read more

Cooler mornings, changing leaves and quieter parks make fall seem like the perfect time to hit the trails with our canine companions. But as I discovered, a small, harmless-looking plant can turn a happy afternoon outdoors into a terrifying veterinary emergency.

We had adopted our dog, Lily, only a few weeks before we set out to explore a semi-...Read more

You might not know it from all the post-election recriminations, but Congress is on the cusp of a major bipartisan victory. Getting it across the line will require a bit of prudence, resolve and common sense.

At issue is a long-negotiated bill known as the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act. Its goal is to ease permitting for ...Read more

Is it too early to put up the Christmas tree?

I get it. We’re barely into November. You haven’t put away the Halloween décor yet, even though you finished eating all the leftover candy (even those off-brand Whoppers) days ago.

But for many of us, the most wonderful time of the year arrived early, on Nov. 3, with the midterm election ...Read more

In the span of just eight weeks, parents heard alarming news stories that raised fears and questions about the new drug landscape their kids are now facing.

In August, actress Hayden Panettiere died at 36. The coroner ruled it an accidental overdose involving fentanyl and other chemicals, and investigators found blue pressed pills at the scene....Read more

The writer David McCullough said that “history is a guide to navigation in perilous times.” This is good advice in a world being transformed by wars in Iran and Ukraine, by shifts in military technology and AI. Today, Veterans Day, is an appropriate moment for such reflection.

World War II, in particular, is a rich trove of history. In my ...Read more

It's a longstanding truism of modern American politics: The next presidential race begins as soon as midterm elections end. That nonstop politicking has been an annoyance for many voters but also for political reporters like myself. Like, give us a break, literally.

Not this time.

In the wake of the 2026 midterm elections that scrambled the ...Read more

Seriously, one week, Democrats?

You couldn’t have kept our hope for a revived democracy alive a little longer? You couldn’t pretend to have a spine, or leadership, respect for voters, or even just a plan — for more than seven days?

On the first Tuesday after the blue tsunami supposedly restored the checks and balances of our government, ...Read more

Before last week’s election, New York Times journalists posted their rankings of America’s most gerrymandered states. Placing Florida third worst, behind Texas and California, they wrote it was “hard to believe” that the Florida Constitution forbids what they saw.

“You certainly wouldn’t guess it by looking at the state’s new map,...Read more