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

NEW YORK – With the start of the release of hidden World Trade Center 9/11 documents held by New York City, we can begin to understand the critical questions of who knew what and when about the environmental health disaster released when the twin towers fell and the soaring plume of white dust rose, covering Downtown.

Mayor Mamdani and the ...Read more

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Pete Hegseth, it appears, would not have gotten along well. They almost certainly would have disagreed on one particular military matter — the editorial independence of the venerable Star and Stripes newspaper.

As the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and others have recounted in recent days, the latest ...Read more

The biggest long-term problem facing Nevada drivers isn’t what happens in the Strait of Hormuz. It’s California’s war on fossil fuels.

On Labor Day, the average price of gas in Nevada was almost $5 a gallon. According to AAA, that’s well above the previous Labor Day record of $3.82, set in 2012. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Aaron ...Read more

By now, dozens of journalists have taken a turn writing about the so-called “Hope Florida” scandal, a bizarre waltz in which $10 million meant to repay Medicaid overcharges was instead two-stepped through a quasi-state agency/charity affiliated with first lady Casey DeSantis, and then twirled through a back door where the cash was dumped ...Read more

President Donald Trump has renamed the lake formerly known as Ontario as Lake America. He’s also renamed the Gulf of Mexico and has posted about renaming the Strait of Hormuz as Trump Strait. He’s even mused aloud about renaming one or two oceans.

So what? What’s in a name?

This is just the sort of thing that comedian Bill Maher and ...Read more

Last Wednesday came and went as if it was an ordinary day. But the date held significance: It marked the one-year anniversary of Operation Southern Spear, the Trump administration’s military campaign against drug trafficking organizations based in Latin America.

That campaign, which includes airstrikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels on...Read more

In grasslands across the American West, four-legged fire prevention crews are busy at work, helping keep wildfire risk under control. These cattle, goats and sheep stomp down tall grasses as they munch their way through plants that could otherwise burn, lowering the risk of catastrophic fires.

When livestock are intentionally used for wildfire ...Read more