Oops. A honcho with the LA teachers union (UTLA) is saying the quiet part out loud. As the California Post reported: Julie Van Winkle, UTLA AFT vice president and...
A Utah judge on Monday ordered a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing to be released on bail, despite objections from the victim's family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him.
The White House has spent days fiercely defending three taxpayer-funded advertisements that glorify President Donald Trump and are nearing at least $1.5 million in public spending, calling them public service announcements like those used in past administrations.
President Donald Trump is in an escalating trade fight with Canada over a simple principle: American workers and industries should not be disadvantaged by foreign interests. There is another American resource that deserves the same scrutiny: our fish. The numbers are startling. Roughly 75% of all fish caught commercially in the Gulf of America benefit […]
This past spring, I examined public polling that was already flashing danger signs for Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. Months later, those indicators have not improved; indeed, multiple surveys suggest the incumbent party’s position has deteriorated. These cycles almost never go well for the president’s party, and barring some major surprises, history looks poised […]
America has the energy resources to meet rising demand. The challenge now is building the infrastructure needed to deliver that energy. A commonsense energy approach should make it easier to invest in and build the infrastructure that will keep pace with a growing economy. Every day, we read about the transformation we are facing: the […]
Sunday’s Chicago Bears game served as an unexpected allegory for everything wrong with President Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Nearing halftime and down 3-6 in a rainy affair in Chicago, the Bears were hoping to secure a score before heading into the locker room. On a second down of a penalty-saturated possession, quarterback Caleb Williams called […]
Americans are asked to follow elections as though they are an endless competition: Who is ahead, who stumbled, whose clip went viral? The question that interests me most comes afterward: What happens when the campaigning ends, and governing begins? A recent conversation with Dana Bash, CNN’s chief political correspondent, brought that question into focus. Her […]
Are some people simply not rich enough to build the American dream? America’s capital markets are the most dynamic in the world. They are ripe with opportunity. Our nation’s business ecosystem is better because of them. The American dream of entrepreneurship and prosperity is possible through our robust capital markets. Too many people are locked […]
Mark Whittington asked in these pages whether artificial intelligence might become the only way humanity can survive. It is a question worth taking seriously. If AI can help us detect pandemics earlier, discover medicines faster, manage complex energy systems, identify approaching hazards, or solve problems too large for human teams to process in time, refusing […]
Bodily autonomy is a cornerstone of women’s rights in California. But behind prison walls, incarcerated women can face a very different reality in which the state holds enormous power. Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice delivered a damning assessment of California’s two state prisons for women. Federal investigators concluded that the California Department of […]
As world leaders gather in New York this week for the 81st United Nations General Assembly, the Western Hemisphere has an opportunity to elevate a security conversation that too often receives attention only after a crisis: how the nations of the Americas can work together to confront transnational threats. The U.N.’s High-Level Week runs Sept. […]
Remember the “hands up, don’t shoot” hoax? How about the “Russian collusion” lie? Do you recall Nicholas Sandmann from Covington Catholic and his interaction with an elderly Native American protester? These were all popular stories that left-wing news outlets reported, were advanced in numerous subsequent news stories, and helped persuade the American public that they […]
When President Donald Trump sat down face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping in May, he proved that his personal intervention can yield real results for persecuted Christians. In that meeting, Trump called on the Chinese leader to release Pastor Ezra Jin, founder of Beijing’s Zion Church. Weeks later, over the Fourth of July, Jin was […]
Nepal Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal’s request for a foreign response to his country’s disastrous Himalayan flood would be better made as an appeal to the charitable instincts of people than as a demand for compensation from climate sinners. Khanal connects the Aug. 26 flood to the popular narrative that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide cause […]
Inside libertarian circles, critics attack anyone defending Israel as “collectivists” peddling broken ancestral claims. Their intellectual challenge boils down to one smug question: “Where is the private property? Where is the chain of title?” Fine. Ignore the archaeology, genetics, and linguistics proving indigenous Jewish ties. Let us meet these critics strictly on their own turf: […]
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are battling for dominance in one of medicine’s largest and fastest-growing markets: drugs for obesity and weight loss. On Monday, Novo announced encouraging results for its experimental drug CagriSema. In a Phase 3 study of patients with type 2 diabetes, CagriSema produced 12.4% average weight loss after 60 weeks, compared […]
