Shame on President Donald Trump for skipping the Ground Zero ceremony in NYC marking 25 years since the terror attacks of 9/11/2001.

The so-called champion of law enforcement has decided to spit on the graves of the firefighters and cops who charged toward the burning buildings in Lower Manhattan to save those they could, along with the ...Read more

On his second day of teaching at Wheatley High School in Houston, former food influencer Darius Williams faced a problem that has plagued U.S. classrooms for decades: his students couldn’t read or write on grade level. But he didn’t call a colleague or email a district literacy specialist. Instead, he posted a video.

In the clip, Williams ...Read more

The current national conversation on Watergate offers an important reminder of the slough through corruption and ethical erosion that tested the foundations of American democracy, degraded public faith in government and depleted the credibility of the United States attorney general. It is also a reminder of those who worked assiduously to ...Read more

Having dynamited trade talks with Canada — in part due to the intervention of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — President Donald Trump has now imposed 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, with Canada immediately retaliating. This will be good for no one, especially the auto industry that straddles both countries.

We’re certainly not ...Read more

Ten years ago, I embarked on a year-long exchange to study abroad in France. When I left the United States, I also left my desire to be associated with America. Political shame, American exceptionalism, and my hope to be identified as a global citizen fueled me.

Ten years later, I still wrestle with similar feelings. As I wrote these ...Read more

Every nation and every faith has rituals to bind its wounds, celebrate its victories, or commemorate deliverance. Americans set aside a Thursday in November to give thanks for a crucial harvest and sustain a founding myth of peaceful coexistence. Israelis sound a siren on Yom HaShoah and stand still and silent. Shiite Muslims mark Ashura with ...Read more

Political predictions are notoriously unreliable, but here is one I am willing to stand behind: the elected officials who figure out how to govern across difference will dominate the next decade of American politics. With dysfunction and paralysis having become the status quo in Washington, elected officials who work together to get things done ...Read more

In the popular imagination, there’s only one threat to picturesque mountain landscapes that can compete with the destruction wrought by flood disasters like the torrent that swept through valleys on the Nepalese-Chinese border: dams.

These concrete behemoths replace the occasional catastrophic natural inundation of such regions with one that�...Read more

When government bond prices go down, it usually means one of two things: either the economy is strong, and demand for capital is pushing up interest rates, or inflation and excess borrowing is putting the future at risk.

For a couple of years now, bond prices have mostly gone down, sending interest rates higher. Take it as a warning.

The 10-...Read more

It sometimes feels as though the Trump administration gets its worldview and foreign policy ideas from a Kremlin School of International Relations course taught by Vladimir Putin — though at a CliffsNotes level that fails to consider how those strategies played out.

Take the recent breakdown of U.S. trade talks with Canada. The White House ...Read more

America is exceptionally good at sending members of its military into harm’s way. We are far less good at managing what happens when those men and women come home.

I recently toured the Vista Detention Facility north of San Diego and saw this problem firsthand. Although the facility’s staff is doing commendable work, the fact that so many ...Read more

If a muscle atrophies, our bodies weaken. We can’t walk very far, we can’t lift things.

When your ability to think atrophies, well, that’s arguably a whole lot worse. “Cogito, ergo sum,” or — “I think, therefore I am,” as René Descartes put it.

Thinking, thus, is as elemental as breathing. Universities should create the ...Read more

What if the secret to happiness was … low expectations?

Most residents of rich, Western countries have relatively high earnings, but many also feel they can’t afford a reasonable lifestyle. Americans, for example, are getting richer but also more unhappy. Meanwhile Eastern Europeans, not generally known for their cheery disposition, are ...Read more

Riding in the backseat of a long, black Chevy Caprice Classic in 1983, I heard an unforgettable melody.

A woman’s light and airy soprano harmonized with a man’s velvety baritone.

Sail away with me

To another world

And we rely on each other, ah-ah

From one lover to another, ah-ah

To my 9-year-old ears, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' ...Read more

L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman did something last week few prosecutors ever do — changed his mind in public, swapping out felony charges for misdemeanors in the case of an LAPD officer accused of secretly taping homophobic, racist and misogynistic remarks made by colleagues.

Since then, Hochman has been slammed for playing ...Read more

Republicans don’t tend to run for office promising to rack up new federal debts. Especially in Texas. But that’s what state Attorney General Ken Paxton is doing in his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Affordability tops the list of concerns for Texans this midterm cycle. A recent Fox News poll found Texas voters care most about inflation and ...Read more

It shouldn’t have taken this long for prominent Democrats to confront their party’s antisemitism problem. But left-wing influencer Hasan Piker apparently crossed a line.

Even before the 2026 primary election season began, many leading Democratic officials had buried their heads in the sand, telling themselves that their party, nor its ...Read more

Dolly Parton died Tuesday at 80, and for a moment, America did something it almost never does. It agreed on someone. Democrats and Republicans, the churched and the unchurched, posted the same grief for a devoutly, openly Christian woman claimed just as hard by people who can’t stand each other. It looked like proof that faith still could ...Read more

More than six years after a novel coronavirus spread to the United States, our nation’s leaders are still locked in a partisan cage-match over the origin of the pathogen. The neverending cycle of recriminations and scapegoating is a waste of time and money — and worse yet, it undermines everyone’s common goal of preventing future waves of ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance’s recently resurfaced comments rightly question whether the U.S. dollar should continue to be the world’s reserve currency. He has also recognized that the problem dates back 40-some years, thereby indicting President Reagan and his Fed chairman, Paul Volcker. Equal blame should go to President Carter, who appointed ...Read more