LOS ANGELES — If anyone needs the axiom "Tell me who you're with, and I'll tell you who you are" whispered to them every morning as a reminder to do better, it's Spencer Pratt.

Can someone do that ASAP, por favor?

Instead of holding events around Los Angeles to convince skeptics that his mayoral campaign is for everyone, the former reality ...Read more

Those big data centers being built for artificial intelligence firms are in bad odor nationwide.

Seven in 10 Americans oppose projects in their local communities, according to a recent Gallup poll. More than a dozen, valued at some $64 billion, have been blocked or delayed by local opposition in recent years.

But what happens when the people ...Read more

On April 26, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear power plant disaster in history: the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The accident was caused by a combination of design flaws of the Soviet RBMK reactor and human error. The explosion and subsequent graphite fire released a plume of ...Read more

At a moment when many schools increasingly blur the line between education and activism, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is attempting something unfashionable: protecting classrooms as places of open inquiry rather than ideological instruction.

The private pre-K-through-12th-grade school in Hyde Park, which serves about 2,000 ...Read more

In February, three months after his administration facilitated a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that helped break two years of full-scale war in Gaza, President Donald Trump strode onto the stage in Washington with pep in his step. Optimistic about the future and confident in his own negotiating abilities, he addressed the so-called Board of...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Democrats’ mantra this election year — especially among wannabe governors — is that the richest Californians should “pay their fair share.” But by any objective measurement, they already do.

I’m referring to state taxes, not federal. It’s a valid argument that the most prosperous Americans should kick ...Read more

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