A controversial plan in Utah to build a remote “homeless campus” is being hailed in some quarters as a bold new approach to the nation’s soaring homeless population.

The plan, developed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness (tellingly titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets”), ...Read more

From the White House to Harvard to Buckingham Palace, 2026 has become a masterclass in how men should not behave. Donald Trump tweeted in expletives on a religious holiday, threatening to decimate “a whole civilization.” Larry Summers—one of the world's most powerful academics—resigned in disgrace from Harvard. Before that, Prince Andrew...Read more

Even at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, you likely will not find a physician without opinions about one of its most prominent alumni, Dr. Marty Makary, the former chair of gastrointestinal surgery at Hopkins who recently resigned as commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Makary’s tenure at the FDA was marked by ...Read more

Years ago, I volunteered teaching financial literacy at a women’s homeless shelter. I may have a doctorate in economics, but I was pretty useless. Being poor in America requires making many complex financial decisions involving details of government benefits that I don’t know much about.

Still, I like to think I was of some use when it ...Read more

In today’s world of polarization and gridlock, when U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, President Donald Trump and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker agree that government is a big part of the housing affordability problem facing Americans, it is time to take note. It is also time to act.

In March, the U.S. Senate passed a ...Read more

Eddie Martinez can't stand Donald Trump. So when Eric Swalwell entered the race for California governor, Martinez had his candidate.

"I liked the way he took Trump on, the impeachment thing in Congress," Martinez said of the former Bay Area congressman, a Trump nemesis who served as one of the House prosecutors in 2021 when Democrats held the ...Read more

Lenore Skenazy has spent the past 15 years shining a light on examples across the country of overzealous bureaucrats and law enforcement officials attempting to criminalize what were once ordinary childhood activities, such as playing outside alone or walking by yourself to the store. Her efforts led to Utah passing the nation’s first “free-...Read more

"I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation." —Jason Collins, April 2013

During a wide-ranging interview with "60 Minutes," Ben Sasse — the former Nebraska senator Ben Sasse who announced he had Stage 4 pancreatic cancer back in December �...Read more

I grew up in a home of immigrants from Colombia, Cuba and Peru, and ours was a mixed-status family. Some family members became naturalized citizens thanks to legislation for refugees. Others, such as my mother, were sponsored by spouses. Some, like me, were born here.

We thought — and media confirmed — that once it was acquired, citizenship...Read more

Californians seem to be talking about mental health more openly than ever before. But as the conversation grows, the support available hasn’t kept pace with the need. Therapy remains inaccessible for millions — because they often can’t afford it, can’t find it or can’t overcome the cultural and logistical barriers that stand in the way...Read more

A universal truth about parenting is that the second you think you’ve got a handle on a difficult stage in your child’s development — sleepless nights, the terrible twos, puberty — everything changes. For parents of teens, nothing captures that constant scramble more than trying to keep up with technology. First the worry was phones, ...Read more

America is fast becoming a country with two economies: a stagnant one for men and a growing one for women. So far this year, the U.S. has created more than 165,000 private-sector jobs, and 72% of them went to women. To some extent this reflects a structural change in the economy, as growth is in industries more likely to employ women, such as ...Read more

What happens if you lose your job and never find another one? That question is at the heart of the fear AI inspires: permanent job loss accompanied by a painful reduction in quality of life.

On one level, that fear is misplaced. Most unemployed workers get jobs quickly; half find a new position within three months. The flames of that fear are ...Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration announced recently that Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport would need to reduce its flight volume during the summer of 2026, with a cap of 2,708 daily operations between May 17 and Oct. 24. That’s down from 3,080 flights planned during peak days.

This requirement is intended to reduce possible ...Read more

While in China, Donald Trump said the pile of 440 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium that was at the heart of his justification for going to war with Iran is, in fact, safely under 24/7 surveillance by nine cameras and no one is getting close to it. In fact, although he’d prefer to get the material out of the country altogether, he said that ...Read more

For an administration that has been all too willing to weaponize the Department of Justice, the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey marks a new low.

Comey’s purported crime came a year ago, when he posted a photograph on social media of seashells arranged as “86 47,” and writing, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.�...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth returned to Capitol Hill this week to promote the Trump administration’s proposed $1.5 trillion defense budget. The request is colossal, in both relative and absolute terms. It is 44% larger than the 2026 fiscal year budget, which was already a 17% increase over 2025.

President Donald Trump’s team claims this ...Read more

In the months that followed last year’s Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires, something quieter but no less consequential has happened in those same neighborhoods. More than 900 people affected by the blaze logged onto a California state digital platform, shared more than 1,300 comments about what they needed most from recovery, weighed 19 ...Read more

The Trump administration has made no bones about its frustration with the coverage it receives from various media outlets. And it’s true that many in the press haven’t been subtle about their discomfort with policies pursued by the White House.

But it would be prudent for President Donald Trump and those who serve him to remember the value ...Read more