President Joe Biden’s statement that he would be “happy” to debate Donald J. Trump means that voters will have at least one opportunity to see the two major-party candidates answer questions side by side. Aside from satisfying some viewers’ interest in whether the elderly candidates display mental lapses, debates offer an opportunity for...Read more

This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people — or more than 40% of the world’s population — able to vote in an election. But nearly five months into 2024, some government officials are quietly wondering why the looming risk of AI hasn’t, apparently, played out.

Even as voters in Indonesia and ...Read more

Minnesota's largest school district is a recent example of the culture conflicts that are occurring in education, politics and other areas across Minnesota and America. Half of the Anoka-Hennepin school board had threatened to hold up the annual budget process late last month unless some of the district's diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) ...Read more

President Biden’s recent pro-housing pivot didn’t come a moment too soon. Even though the housing shortage is long-standing, well-known and worse in blue cities, high housing costs somehow sneaked up on Democrats.

By facing the crisis head on, Biden and his fellow Democrats can show voters they’re committed to expanding and strengthening ...Read more

My mother once said to me, “A mother’s work is never done.” It wasn’t until I became a parent myself that I grasped the depth of this token of wisdom. Mother’s Day is a time to acknowledge the hard work mothers do and the sacrifices they make every single day. But as we honor human mothers, let’s also extend recognition to mothers of...Read more

Asked last week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel if he would accept the outcome of the November election, Donald Trump responded: “If everything’s honest, I’ll gladly accept the results. I don’t change on that. If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country. If you go back and look at all of the things that had been found...Read more

Iran’s supreme leader has been enjoying himself lately on X, Elon Musk’s social media platform. In one post, he delighted at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses; in another, it was someone waving the flag of Hezbollah, his proxy militia in Lebanon. Here was proof, said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that even in the Great Satan itself the world...Read more

President Joe Biden’s move Thursday to expand two national monuments in California is unquestionably good news for our climate and environment.

One proclamation will increase the size of San Gabriel Mountains National Monument by nearly one third, adding more than 105,000 acres of mountains and foothills above communities from Sylmar to ...Read more

Donald Trump has put America on notice: If he loses the presidential election, he reserves the right to encourage his followers to fight.

When Time magazine asked Trump whether the election would end in political violence if he loses, the former president replied: "If we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an ...Read more

“[A]s a company, we have a responsibility to engage. For this reason, we are working together with other businesses through groups like the Business Roundtable to support efforts to enhance every person’s ability to vote.”

These were the words of AT&T CEO John Stankey, responding to a Georgia law that limited absentee voting. A similar ...Read more

Whether or not you side with the student protesters making waves at Columbia University and other college campuses over the war in Gaza, we can probably all agree that irresponsible and fiery language isn’t helping anyone.

Surely, we should be able to call for a ceasefire without being labeled antisemitic.

Likewise, people should be able to ...Read more

Millions of us are justifiably focused on seeing that Donald Trump is held to account for what he's allegedly done in the past.

Scheming to flip the legitimate 2020 election result and resisting the peaceful transfer of power, a first for U.S. presidents. Making off with top-secret documents and conspiring to hide them from the feds. Falsifying...Read more

As the 2024 election cycle begins in earnest, companies must act on their fiduciary responsibility to more closely monitor their political spending and the accompanying risks. Too often corporate leaders fail to fully assess and scrutinize the ultimate beneficiaries of political contributions from corporate treasury funds. This oversight ...Read more

When did it become fashionable to diminish the accomplishments of Vietnam War-era protesters by accusing them of inflated self-regard and delusions about what their activism accomplished?

In my view, the situation in the Mideast is more nuanced and complex than the United States' involvement in Vietnam ever was. Israel's horrific response ...Read more

President Biden’s relatively tepid response to the clashes between police and protesters on college campuses shows he’s playing with a political powder keg as young voters in droves abandon his administration’s side in the Israeli-Hamas war.

Biden seemed afraid to take a tough stance against the violence erupting on campuses – much of ...Read more

As the pro-Palestinian protests on colleges and universities across the United States have spread, some commentators have taken to comparing current events to the late 1960s. It’s a tempting analogy: protests in an earlier era, often defined by violent clashes with police; and the same thing today. History is simply repeating itself.

No. The ...Read more

Free speech and freedom of assembly are foundational rights in the United States. Our college campuses must be places where young people can express themselves and gain exposure to ideas and ideologies that might conflict with their worldviews. Yet they must also be a place where students can walk on campus without the threat of violence and ...Read more

One of the most basic conflicts in politics, and in life in general, is whether to stand by your principles or be open to compromise. Woodrow Wilson is known as a president who stood by his principles regarding America's need to join the League of Nations, an organization he proposed for all of the participants in World War I in his famous 1918 ...Read more

Ten years before I was born, at 4:40 on the morning of Nov. 10, 1971, my mother and another woman sat “yogi-style” on the floor of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, kitchen and lit themselves on fire. They were just blocks from the University of Michigan campus, where my mother had been a student. She had just turned 20. Police tracked the smell of ...Read more