That’s the problem with the Fifth Amendment: It tends to make you look guilty.

So I cringed a little the first two or three times Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his constitutional protection against self-incrimination when he appeared last week before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

But as he continued to ...Read more

Every day, across Florida, people see things their government is doing that they find objectionable, even outrageous.

It could be a new site for a homeless shelter near their kids’ school. A law that puts new and burdensome restrictions on people who want to register to vote. A court decision that allows people to carry guns into places they ...Read more

American drinking habits are changing.

Nearly half of American adults say they don’t touch alcohol, according to a 2025 Gallup survey. At 54%, the share of the population that drinks has reached its lowest level since the survey started in 1939.

Earlier this year, federal officials replaced the longstanding recommendation that adults limit ...Read more

We’ve all got the same problem these days. No matter which news screen we are watching – or which news silo site our screen is tuned to – we are finding it is harder than ever to tell the trustworthy newsmakers from the news-fakers.

Everyone on every news screen seems to have an angle these days. And we need to admit there’s one thing ...Read more

For more than 50 years, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) has been a critical lifeline for millions of pregnant and postpartum women, infants and young children.

The federal program provides healthy food, nutrition education, breastfeeding support and connections to healthcare. WIC helps families ...Read more

Most Americans don’t want a state-run economy. But increasingly, there’s not a political party that reflects this mainline view.

On the left, democratic socialism is gaining traction. Two-thirds of Democrats view socialism positively, according to Gallup. On the right, although the vast majority of GOP voters (74%) still support capitalism...Read more

Elon Musk, the world’s first trillionaire, told The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minto Beddoes in a recent interview that money won’t matter in 2036. He invoked a Star Trek-like future where robots and artificial intelligence will make us so wealthy that work will become a hobby like gardening and not a necessity.

We’ve seen such ...Read more

When it comes to medicine, Washington, D.C., is not anti-AI. In a string of recent legislative announcements, the White House has made AI innovation a national priority. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is exploring strategies to accelerate AI in clinical care. And the FDA has already authorized more than 1,500 AI-enabled ...Read more

President Donald Trump argued last month that Canada should pay damages — or face additional tariffs — for the wildfire smoke recently “poisoning” American air, and claimed that he strong-armed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during the World Cup final in New Jersey, telling Carney he needed to stop the fires.

To Trump and the ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Today we’re talking about California’s Proposition 39, a bid to turn Trump’s election conspiracy fantasies into California law, and a proposal so disingenuous it’s caused Democratic legislators to sue the Democratic secretary of state in an attempt to stop the misinformation surrounding it.

As these lawsuits move...Read more

The market, as I have noted before, is a small miracle. All these people come together — sellers, buyers, go-betweens — with different preferences, needs and resources, and they manage to come up with a price. The market clears, and everyone is better off.

But not always. When a market fails, it is tempting for public officials to intervene...Read more

When I was a teenager, my cousin Anthony was killed by gun violence. He wasn’t the first family member that I lost to gun violence, or the last. These shootings devastated me in ways I did not understand at the time. I never received counseling or treatment. Instead, grief turned into fear — about death, survival and vulnerability. Like many...Read more

Come 2028, the Democratic presidential campaign promises to be a banger, with all sorts of intrigue and subplots layered within a wide-open fight for the nomination.

There's the prospect of same-state rivals going at it. (California's Gavin Newsom vs. Kamala Harris; Georgia's Sen. Jon Ossoff vs. Sen. Raphael Warnock.)

There's sure to be a ...Read more

President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and richest-man-in-the-world Elon Musk have not personally killed anyone, but their actions are unquestionably causing the unnecessary deaths of millions of innocent people — including 4.5 million children — who have been cut off from the lifesaving aid the U.S. was once proud to provide...Read more

Those who believe government can provide health insurance better than the free market need to look at Vermont.

For years, Vermont has geared its health-care policy toward creating a single-payer system. Perhaps that’s not a surprise given that the state keeps re-electing Sen. Bernie Sanders, an ardent socialist. As it turns out, it’s easier...Read more

Polls show that many Americans today — particularly younger ones — have a less-than-favorable view of free-market capitalism. A recent Gallup survey found that just 54% of respondents had a positive opinion of the economic system.

Yet many of capitalism’s most vocal critics openly ignore the abundant evidence of its success.

The Food and...Read more

During the rise of the Internet, as the World Wide Web moved from government and academic settings to family homes, parents worried about the exposure of their children to predators in online chatrooms. A generation later, as social media became central to young people’s lives, the dangers of platforms like Facebook and Instagram to children�...Read more

At a time when both U.S. parties paint the other as a threat to the country’s future, both are ignoring one of the gravest threats of all: student achievement levels that are abysmally low.

The only thing worse than failing to teach students basic skills is not knowing how bad their test scores really are, because that ensures nothing will ...Read more

Since President Donald Trump’s return to power, more than 60 people have died at the hands of or in the custody of immigration authorities, most recently two Latino immigrants in one week: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. Many Latinos have come to feel that their brown skin makes them targets, and...Read more

Why not just build them in space?

As data centers face rising costs, strained resources and growing political opposition, a number of entrepreneurs — Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt — have raised the possibility of processing and storing data aboard satellites in low-Earth orbit, using large solar arrays for power. It’s a crazy idea, ...Read more