Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]
There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold? […]
Illegal immigration was not the only reason Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, but it was a big one. According to the Democratic-aligned Blueprint polling firm, the second-most popular reason voters, including Hispanic people, chose Trump over Harris was that “too many immigrants illegally crossed the border under the Biden-Harris administration.” For years, […]
Tucked into the 1,547-page continuing budget resolution now before Congress is a section that saves the State Department's Global Engagement Center, a key government...
Some of the most effective tools for addressing the challenge of hostile and unidentified drones may come from Israel, which has honed cutting-edge advances...
The U.S. mental health crisis is real. However, so is our opportunity to meet it. As Congress races to fund the government ahead of the holidays, it is imperative that it does not forget our nation’s youth. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 40% of high school students reported persistently […]
Could America’s Constitution be on the cusp of a massive rewrite? A recent article said that Democrats fear Republicans at the state and national levels will try to do so after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. These worries are greatly overblown. However, they do point toward a constitutional mechanism that some well-meaning Americans […]
Mayor Adams and schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos sound confident that the city Panel for Education Policy will OK the contract for an admissions test...
