Opinion

The Senate Agriculture Committee just failed to advance its long-overdue farm bill. A narrow 10–11 party-line vote derailed legislation that has languished since 2018. The immediate cause was a bitter gridlock over the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. As a physician and public health advocate, I believe this standoff exposes a deeper problem. Washington is caught […]

The Democratic Socialists of America are riding a new wave of momentum. Their candidates have scored notable victories in Democratic primaries in cities such as Denver, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Prominent DSA members are also advancing an extreme Marxist agenda on national television. What stands out is that several of these rising figures are […]

The Texas State Board of Education has approved a required K-12 reading list, the first state to mandate a common core of books for all its 5.5 million schoolchildren statewide. Such selections are usually left to individual teachers, English departments, local school boards, or a mix of all three.  The Republican-controlled education board recently voted […]

There was a time when nearly every city council member expected someone from the local newspaper to be sitting in the front row. Today, in hundreds of counties across America, no one is there. They are known as “news deserts.” The declining number of professional and objective media outlets covering local news is disturbing and […]

In Tehran, appointments to the Supreme National Security Council are rarely bureaucratic reshuffles. They are signals — about fear, factional power, and the threats the regime believes it is about to face. The return of Mohsen Rezaei, one of the oldest surviving figures of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, is therefore more than another personnel […]

The car that starts in the driveway. The hospital that stays lit during a power outage. The data center that keeps the internet running. The military vehicle that moves when ordered. All of it depends on a narrow set of critical minerals and on the industrial capacity to transform those minerals into something usable. President […]

Major infrastructure projects deserve careful review. They also deserve to be judged on the facts, not on outdated objections and hypothetical concerns.  The $71 billion Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger is ready to be assessed on its merits and approved. When the companies first filed their application with the Surface Transportation Board, critics questioned whether the […]

In cancer care, every hour a patient spends getting treatment is an hour away from the rest of their life. It could mean another afternoon in an infusion chair instead of at home. Another childcare arrangement to make. More missed work. Another exhausting drive to a distant treatment center. Medical advances that turn a seven-hour […]

Twenty-one state attorneys general just sued the federal government over food stamps. Not to feed more hungry American citizens. To keep benefits flowing to noncitizens and to stop Washington from checking whether the people collecting them are alive, unique, or even eligible in the first place. I have spent three decades in investment management, much […]

For more than two centuries, the Manila Galleons carried Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices across the Pacific to Acapulco. From there, the cargo crossed Mexico before joining Spanish treasure fleets sailing to Europe, almost always stopping in the Canary Islands before catching the Atlantic trade winds. That maritime network became the world’s first truly global […]

It is no secret that millions of Americans are struggling under financial pressures from inflation. Most Americans look at gas and grocery prices as a proxy for overall inflation. Add in higher interest rates and higher costs for healthcare, and a rational person would conclude that any effort to restrict access to debt relief programs […]

Despite its clever name, Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) so-called “Family Grocery and Farmer Relief Act” won’t provide relief for grocers or producers, or consumers for that matter. Instead, it will make things worse by inserting the federal government into the dynamic, highly sophisticated, and competitive meat, livestock, and poultry markets.    First, Schumer’s bill makes it […]

Todd Blanche looks set to become America’s next attorney general. Earlier this week, two disgruntled Republican senators, Thom Tillis (NC) and John Cornyn (TX), lifted their holds on Blanche’s nomination, clearing the way for him through the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? President Donald Trump needs Republicans he can work with, yet too […]