Donald Trump, the president who fancied himself a “very stable genius,” shows very little of that stability these days. More than 80 Democratic members of Congress have called for invoking the 25th Amendment to sideline him.

Trump’s vice president and a majority of his Cabinet are the only ones who could actually exercise their powers ...Read more

White evangelical Christians helped bring President Donald Trump to power. They remain among his most ardent supporters. This, even as the president seemingly has gone out of his way to mock Christianity and its first commandment.

One year in, the vast majority (69%) of White evangelicals continue to approve of Trump’s job performance, ...Read more

If prediction markets are any indication, Democrats are heavy favorites to take the House in November, with a likelihood approaching 85 percent. That’s no surprise. Republicans have a tiny four-vote majority in the chamber, and the president’s party historically struggles in midterm balloting.

But many Republicans have become increasingly ...Read more

The resignations of three members of Congress over misconduct allegations demonstrate that the U.S. House — which most Americans think can’t get its act together — not only has the capacity to hold members accountable, but can also do so rapidly. At least, when it wants to.

Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is the latest member to ...Read more

Since the nation began building roads, it has been widely accepted that the drivers who use them should pay for them. That was the foundation of the federal gas tax since it was created. Drivers bought fuel, paid the per-gallon fuel tax, and the money was supposed to go toward maintaining and improving the roads and highways they used. Drivers ...Read more

The Highway Trust Fund — the primary federal account dedicated to funding highways, bridges and transit — is going broke.

The HTF is funded largely by federal taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel — revenue sources designed decades ago for a very different transportation system. That revenue isn’t keeping up with surface transportation ...Read more

History may not repeat itself, but it is loudly rhyming in the calls from conservatives for President Donald Trump to promote Harmeet Dhillon at the Justice Department.

Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, has been among the fiercest culture warriors in an administration crowded with them. On every major aspect of civil ...Read more

Judging by my inbox, there’s a misapprehension about how to deal with Iran among many supporters of the “finish the job” line of thinking. They contend that the choice between continuing or ending the war boils down to whether you want to destroy the Islamic Republic, or are happy to let it go on bringing misery to the Iranian people and ...Read more

There isn’t much in the Middle East to celebrate these days. The two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, which provided some respite from weeks of bombing and missile attacks, is set to expire this Wednesday if the parties don’t find a way to extend it.

The Gulf Arab states, which have gotten used to being an oasis of ...Read more

From farmwork to the halls of Congress, gender-based violence and harassment is not just misconduct. It’s a widespread workplace hazard, even if federal law fails to treat it as such.

The recent sexual misconduct allegations against House representatives Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzalez, the sexual abuse allegations tied to Cesar Chavez and ...Read more

The Boston City Council should rethink its “nothing to see here” stance on auditing city and school department spending, given recent revelations.

After an advertisement from a nonprofit indicated the city was spending taxpayer money on “wellness allowance” grants for LGBTQ migrants that could be used for gym memberships, yoga, ...Read more

Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick finally conceded the inevitable. It’s about time.

The Democrat from Broward abruptly resigned from the U.S. House Tuesday, minutes before the House Ethics Committee was to meet and likely recommend that she be expelled.

There’s no satisfactory explanation for financing her election, and personal ...Read more

History will not judge President Donald Trump’s decision to start this war by what it did to Iran. It will hold its harshest judgment for what it has done to America.

However this ends, the United States is already diminished by it, militarily, diplomatically, economically and morally. None of that damage is hypothetical. It is clear in the ...Read more

The vice president has stepped into the fray between the president and Pope Leo. For those of you who have not been following this, Pope Leo has been critical of various things that Trump has said regarding his war with Iran, including his statement that he was ready to wipe out Iranian civilization.

In response, Trump called Pope Leo too ...Read more

Americans are not optimistic about the state of higher education. A 2025 Pew Research survey revealed that 7 in 10 adults believe that higher education in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction.

Forty-six percent say that colleges and universities do a fair or poor job of “providing opportunities for students to express ...Read more

Until recently, President Donald Trump always found a way to fail forward, through a combination of spin, threats, payoffs and bluster.

OK, that’s the simplistic interpretation. The fine print tells a less-glamorous story: a man born on third base who spent decades insisting he’d hit a triple.

Still, it’s hard to argue with success. When...Read more

Running through last weekend's state Democratic Nominating Convention was an undercurrent of antisemitism that left many Jews wondering if they still have a place in the party and left Democrats with a candidate slate that will make it more challenging to exploit their opportunities in this year's midterm election.

"It's extensive," said ...Read more

What if the next time you doom-scrolled through Instagram, X or TikTok, you reached an end point? It’s hard to imagine. The so-called infinite scroll has become such a fixture of social media that our dopamine receptors have come to expect it, even though it’s a time suck that undermines our mental health and serves no real purpose other ...Read more

In the neonatal intensive care unit, nutrition is our most powerful healing tool. Most of what we do, from incubators to ventilators, simply buys time and treats complications while premature infants grow. Without growth and nutrition, these children would not survive.

As a neonatologist, I treat infants weighing just over 1 pound. I see the ...Read more

The opioid epidemic has claimed thousands of lives in Illinois since it started in the late 1990s. Finally, there’s some good news to share.

Overdose deaths from opioids are falling sharply, down 35.6% in 2024 from the previous year, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s latest report. After rising inexorably through 2022,...Read more