Let’s pretend for a moment you’re a Republican running for governor in the blue, blue state of California.

Your prospect of winning is small. So small, you could peer through a microscope, blink and miss it. How, then do you draw voters to your candidacy and boost your chances?

Actually, let’s not pretend. A very real flesh-and-blood ...Read more

Dilapidated artwork says a lot about a society. Restoring it can breathe fresh life into a culture. A timely case in point: the Christopher Columbus fountain in front of Union Station in Washington, D.C.

It’s a reminder of our history and of our connection to the old world. Yet it was left to ruin for nearly 20 years. The water didn’t flow,...Read more

For many students, the start of the fall semester means a new address. Whether it's a freshman-year dorm room or a sick (you decide the connotation here) off-campus apartment, your address can impact how and where you vote.

With midterms quickly approaching—no, we’re not just talking about your exams—checking your voter registration now ...Read more

A mother of a graduating high school senior recently confided that her son wanted to study actuarial science in college, and she was worried about whether AI would end up replacing those jobs.

It may seem like an insignificant concern when the big debate recently has been whether AI will wipe out all of humanity in the near future. Why worry ...Read more

President Donald Trump famously likes to put his name on things he builds as monuments to himself. It might be conceited, vain and unseemly, but that is his right.

What he doesn’t have the right to do is permanently plaster his name on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts. To do so would not just be unlawful. It would...Read more

Students entering Ohio’s public universities this fall are the first four-year cohort expected to graduate under the state’s new American civic literacy requirement. Beginning with the spring 2030 graduating class, students must complete an approved three-credit course built around the Constitution and other foundational texts, with limited ...Read more

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is in trouble because years of neglect have left the national landmark unsafe, underfunded and waiting for someone else to pay the bills.

President Donald Trump became chairman of the board after returning to office and made its renovation and financial condition a personal priority, while also...Read more

Not long before the #MeToo hashtag erupted in 2017, two young women, who said they’d been raped while studying at the University of North Carolina, organized a national movement to stop campus rape and confront the colleges that did little to punish it. Ten years later, here we are, consumed with national outrage over yet another alleged ...Read more

For a state whose government officially doesn’t believe climate change is real, Florida remains our nation’s busiest climate-change laboratory.

The latest test for the Sunshine State is an outbreak of dengue fever, the largest in the U.S. since the 1940s. The numbers are relatively small: 485 cases as of the latest count from the Centers ...Read more

Almost as soon as next month’s elections are over, arguments will begin about the lessons and implications for 2028. But one conclusion is already undeniable: Latinos are America’s new swing voters.

If Democrats win control of Congress in November, it will be in large part because the Latino voters President Donald Trump captured in ...Read more

I went to bed at a decent hour Monday night and got a pretty good sleep.

I woke up refreshed Tuesday morning, only to see the news that President Donald Trump seemed to have told a crowd in Nebraska that it wouldn't be such a bad thing if Iran attacked Southern California.

"Let 'em take out Los Angeles. Let 'em take out San Diego," he said in ...Read more

Having undermined the law and the Constitution with some terrible opinions in deference to President Donald Trump, this week brings the new U.S. Supreme Court term, and with it the risk that our nation’s highest judicial body will continue to make us a less fair, less moral and less safe society.

As with other recent terms, the weightiness of...Read more

In a recently published op-ed extolling the lifesaving virtues of federally funded research at institutions such as Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sen. Dave McCormick called for doubling funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Good luck with that.

The Pennsylvania Republican is certainly right about the human and material value ...Read more

Since the St. Paul police chief’s sexual harassment claims against Mayor Kaohly Her surfaced last summer, I’ve had private and public discussions about the role of gender.

Initially, I warned against a rush to judgment. I wanted to see the findings from a St. Cloud law firm’s independent investigation into the claims by Chief Axel Henry. ...Read more

Commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed. Before the war with Iran, approximately 125 commercial vessels passed through each day. In late September, the 10-day average was down to about 18.

Americans who will never see the Strait of Hormuz are paying for this disruption every day. For decades, American naval power,...Read more

Here's what President Donald Trump has said about his deal for Venezuelan oil: that it's a deal with the current Venezuelan government, that it will more than double U.S. oil reserves and that it will "substantially lower Gas Prices for all Americans, long into the future."

Here's a simple rule of thumb for assessing all these claims: None of ...Read more

If there’s anything President Donald Trump likes more than campaigning for Republicans, it’s watching his preferred candidates win their elections. In Latin America, he’s having remarkable political success.

Over the last year and a half, right-wing candidates have won seven presidential elections in a part of the world Washington ...Read more

“My daughter wants to be a tradwife.” My friend sat across from me at dinner not too long ago and described how her daughter, a high school senior at the time, had zero college ambitions. Social media had taken care of that — her daughter had become an avid follower of the tradwife aesthetic, and my friend was not happy about it.

Lately, ...Read more

For half a century, Republicans have worn the “party of business” label like a permanent badge — tax cuts, deregulation, tough trade talk — while Democrats have too often ceded the ground, treating economic strength as someone else’s brand to react to rather than a story to tell.

A new survey commissioned by the nonpartisan U.S.-Asia ...Read more