The vice president has stepped into the fray between the president and Pope Leo. For those of you who have not been following this, Pope Leo has been critical of various things that Trump has said regarding his war with Iran, including his statement that he was ready to wipe out Iranian civilization.

In response, Trump called Pope Leo too ...Read more

Americans are not optimistic about the state of higher education. A 2025 Pew Research survey revealed that 7 in 10 adults believe that higher education in the United States is generally going in the wrong direction.

Forty-six percent say that colleges and universities do a fair or poor job of “providing opportunities for students to express ...Read more

Until recently, President Donald Trump always found a way to fail forward, through a combination of spin, threats, payoffs and bluster.

OK, that’s the simplistic interpretation. The fine print tells a less-glamorous story: a man born on third base who spent decades insisting he’d hit a triple.

Still, it’s hard to argue with success. When...Read more

Running through last weekend's state Democratic Nominating Convention was an undercurrent of antisemitism that left many Jews wondering if they still have a place in the party and left Democrats with a candidate slate that will make it more challenging to exploit their opportunities in this year's midterm election.

"It's extensive," said ...Read more

What if the next time you doom-scrolled through Instagram, X or TikTok, you reached an end point? It’s hard to imagine. The so-called infinite scroll has become such a fixture of social media that our dopamine receptors have come to expect it, even though it’s a time suck that undermines our mental health and serves no real purpose other ...Read more

In the neonatal intensive care unit, nutrition is our most powerful healing tool. Most of what we do, from incubators to ventilators, simply buys time and treats complications while premature infants grow. Without growth and nutrition, these children would not survive.

As a neonatologist, I treat infants weighing just over 1 pound. I see the ...Read more

The opioid epidemic has claimed thousands of lives in Illinois since it started in the late 1990s. Finally, there’s some good news to share.

Overdose deaths from opioids are falling sharply, down 35.6% in 2024 from the previous year, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health’s latest report. After rising inexorably through 2022,...Read more

In the Mideast, the fog of war has also shrouded the peace talks intended to end it.

Indeed, seemingly on a daily, even hourly, basis, conflicting signals on the status of the Strait of Hormuz and other components of the conflict have come not just from the U.S. and Iran but from within Washington and Tehran themselves. And after days of mixed ...Read more

President Donald Trump is the new Gerald Ford.

Fifty-two years ago, President Gerald Ford came up with “Whip Inflation Now” (WIN) — a gimmick to convince voters to ignore high unemployment and rising gas and food prices during the mid-term election.

There were signs, buttons, and speeches all to promote Ford’s presidency and his WIN ...Read more

Every summer, it happens again: A dog is left behind in a parked car, panting desperately as temperatures climb, while someone insists they’ll “only be gone for a minute.” That minute can be the difference between life and death.

Leaving a dog in a hot car is not a harmless mistake—it is a predictable, preventable act of negligence ...Read more

Last April, President Donald Trump announced what will go down as one of the dumbest economic policy decisions in American history.

Nearly every economist told the president that tariffs imposed using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were a loser — with disagreement coming mostly from how bad their impact would be — and the ...Read more

It’s not often one hears students clamoring for tougher coursework and tighter deadlines. But a group of college kids who recently graduated from Washington high schools have given state education leaders an earful.

“I did not feel prepared from my high school classes,” said one.

“Please invest in higher rigor courses,” urged another...Read more

Senate Democrats, led by socialist Bernie Sanders, made an inexplicable push last week to abandon Israel and embolden Iran and its terrorist proxies. Thankfully, they failed — and Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen deserve credit for disregarding the party line.

On Thursday, the upper chamber rejected joint resolutions ...Read more

Bad things happen when progressive politicians attempt to solve nonexistent problems. Consider gasoline prices in California.

In 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill he claimed would stop price gouging by oil companies. In 2022, average gas prices in California topped $6 per gallon. Because Nevada receives around 88 percent of its ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and illegal attack on Iran has sent crude oil, gasoline and diesel prices through the roof. In addition, farmers are facing sharp increases in the cost of fertilizers produced from oil and gas.

But while the costs mount for regular people, the administration’s allies in the fossil fuel industry stand to ...Read more

At last Friday’s Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, California author Amy Tan was honored with the 2025 Robert Kirsch Award, which recognizes a writer with deep connections to the American West. As Kirsch’s son introduced her, he noted that she was a “birthright citizen.”

The author of “The Joy Luck Club” was born in Oakland, California...Read more

The Artemis II mission around the moon provided a conflicted nation with a much-needed wave of shared enthusiasm derived from achieving a lofty goal. The mission — a more comfortable and less complicated repeat of the Apollo 8 flight in 1968 — was the first step toward the dream of returning to the moon and never leaving.

Now comes the ...Read more

American higher education is approaching a structural demand shock. Whether one labels it the “demographic cliff” or the “enrollment cliff,” the underlying dynamic is straightforward: In many parts of the country, the pipeline of traditional-age students is softening, and institutional business models built around predictable cohorts of ...Read more

President Donald Trump has the power to end a civilization. But it’s not Iran’s. It’s America’s.

As an Iranian-American born and raised in the United States, I love both my homelands equally and unreservedly. But I’ve never worried more about America or less about Persian civilization.

Because even if Trump demolished every building ...Read more

While the United States has been focused on fighting an old-fashioned air war against Iran, Ukraine has been showing the world how to fight the new global drone war.

Despite the massive U.S. air bombardment of Iranian military and industrial sites — which still hasn’t ended the war — the Pentagon was unprepared to counter thousands of ...Read more