Republicans have wanted to abolish the Department of Education since it was established in 1979. Under Secretary Linda McMahon, they’ve come closer than ever to achieving this goal. They may come to regret it.

McMahon, on her first day in office, told staff that they should consider dismantling the department their “final mission.” Two ...Read more

The Pentagon has a well-deserved reputation for erring on the side of secrecy when classifying documents. Now it wants even more power to hide information from the American taxpayer.

CBS News reports that Defense Department officials are asking Congress to “create a new section of federal law allowing the defense secretary to exempt certain �...Read more

The median house price in Nantucket, Massachusetts, is nearly $4 million. It was just $500,000 in 1995. This sounds like a stunning increase in one of the hottest and least accessible real estate markets in the country. What’s even more stunning is the stock market: If you invested $500,000 in the S&P 500 Index in 1995, you’d have more than ...Read more

Gertrude Stein famously wrote, "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," meaning everyone knows what a rose is. The same cannot be said of a Socialist.

There are many Democratic politicians who proudly call themselves Socialists or Democratic Socialists, and there are many adversaries who brand those individuals as Socialists. Both sides use the ...Read more

WARREN, Mich. — It was 94 degrees outside, the heat index was over 100, and smoke from the Canadian wildfires triggered air quality alerts here in the Detroit suburbs … and yet a hodgepodge of about 20 curious voters continued to stand outside and wait. Senate Democratic primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, the former public health official ...Read more

We live in an era when people will invest hard-earned dollars in a stock simply because an anonymous Redditor with a handle like “looksmaxxingtrader” posts “We need to save Wendy’s” or some such. But when it comes to the weather, most of us still demand more information before committing to an outfit, an outing or, more important, ...Read more

Americans have stopped arguing to persuade; they argue to wound. Every news cycle is a fresh exchange of blows, and every blow lands on a citizenry that has forgotten what the original fight was even about. The country has split into two armies, each convinced it is fighting defensively, each convinced the other side started it.

Researchers ...Read more

Let’s be honest. Iran has President Donald Trump in a headlock over the Strait of Hormuz. The White House is fighting to reopen a waterway that wasn’t closed before the conflict started. But Tehran risks overplaying its hand: If it continues to squeeze, it will lose strategic leverage — not immediately, but over the next five years or so ...Read more

Markwayne Mullin's goal, he told senators in March at his confirmation hearing to replace the failed Kristi Noem as the Homeland Security secretary, was to keep the department and its blood-stained Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency off the nation's front pages.

Now he's failed too.

Front pages and screens in the last week have been ...Read more

The Department of Health and Human Services recently sought advice from patients, clinicians and public health experts on addiction treatments supported by “rigorous, empirical evidence of effectiveness.” Health and Human Services endorses medications to address opioid addiction, but there are actually no medications to address addiction to ...Read more

Two fatal shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — one July 7 in Houston and one July 13 in Maine — prompted the Trump administration to pause most vehicle stops.

That pause was short-lived.

In both cases, ICE officers shot men in their vehicles after agents attempted to stop them during immigration operations. (Neither...Read more

Imagine if Sunday’s World Cup final were played under rules that blatantly favored one side over the other. Let’s say Argentina was spotted four goals against Spain.

Spain could, conceivably, overcome that 4-0 deficit. But it would be awfully hard and something of a miracle if the Spanish team prevailed.

Fans the world over would be ...Read more

Current events in Iran have largely pushed the Israeli-Hamas conflict out of the news cycle. But a recent incident in Gaza reinforces how Hamas terrorists have little consideration for the well-being of their own people.

On Monday, Reuters reported that a U.N. official accused Hamas of sabotaging aid distribution in the Gaza Strip, “placing ...Read more

This week, public health detectives in Michigan got their first big lead in the cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people in the state amid a broader national surge. Initial evidence suggests contaminated lettuce or salad greens could be driving infections — though authorities caution that other food sources can’t be ...Read more

At the risk of turning myself into a pariah, I don’t think money in politics is a problem.

Voters on the right and left don’t seem to agree on much these days. But they tend to share the belief — it’s an article of faith, really — that campaign donations, especially corporate cash, are a corrupting force in American politics. Simply ...Read more

People love the convenience of simply swiping a credit card or tapping their smartphones when making a purchase, but now lawmakers want to micromanage these transactions line by line, imposing intrusive bureaucracy that will add costs and interference to a well-oiled machine.

When a customer makes an electronic payment, data on the sales ...Read more

President Donald Trump, along with some of his aides and supporters, have proposed a number of absurd ideas to aggrandize him. By far the most absurd is their repeated appeals to add his likeness to Mount Rushmore.

Carved into South Dakota’s Black Hills between 1927 and 1941, Rushmore features four of America’s most celebrated presidents: ...Read more

The mendacity of the political left is audacious and delusional. Take this recent view from In These Times magazine, a longtime voice of the progressive left:

“After New York’s Democratic primary shockwaves, there is no doubt: democratic socialism is on the march in the U.S.,” the headline declared.

“This summer, a seismic wave ripped ...Read more

The U.S. constitutional order has been miraculously successful. It has endured, it has adapted and it has been the foundation for unsurpassed prosperity and material advance. The world has found no better system and, as almost all Americans understand, setting it aside would be catastrophic. For these reasons, a certain reverence — entailing a...Read more

President Donald Trump and other Republicans like to say the United States does not have money for programs that address the needs of ordinary citizens.

“It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,” Trump said recently, saying that the nation had more important things to do, like “...Read more