Opinion

When you see the name “Kamala Harris,” what’s the first word that pops into your mind? A) Historic B) Winner C) Loser D) Inauthentic E) Both C and D If you answered E, you’re correct. And sure, technically, Harris is historic in the sense she’s the first female vice president in history. But that title […]

Another new in vitro fertilization startup has emerged, this one with explicit intelligence parameters to play with as a feature of its website. But does it draw people to what children are, or what they are not? The company, called Herasight, recently went public with product promotion, having “already screened hundreds of embryos” for genetic […]

The student giving a tour at an elite American university this summer hit all the right points: what the core and elective courses are, how hard they are, and what campus life is like. It’s what the guide didn’t do that raised my eyebrow. Suddenly, there was no land acknowledgment. It was like Sherlock Holmes’s […]

It has been more than 22 months since my son, Itay, a U.S.-Israeli citizen, was taken hostage by Hamas. He remains in the dungeons of Gaza to this day, along with 49 other hostages. Itay was stationed at the Gaza border to protect local agricultural communities when he was abducted and kidnapped. There has been […]

“If the government wants poor children to thrive, it should give their parents money.” That simple idea, the New York Times reported, has fueled a national push to provide low‑income families with regular, no‑strings‑attached payments. Alas, new economic research suggests alleviating poverty might not be so simple. A “rigorous new experiment” recently published by the […]

When Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s presidency on an anti-corruption platform in 2019, he embodied the country’s youthful desire for reform. The eruption of a political turf war last week, ironically, over control of Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies, has revealed a different side to the comedian-turned-war leader. But it has also reaffirmed how fiercely the […]

President Donald Trump’s assertion that the war in Ukraine “should never have happened” is an accurate one. It was August 1991, just weeks before Ukraine declared independence from a crumbling Soviet Union. President George H.W. Bush stood before the Ukrainian Parliament and delivered what would become known as the “Chicken Kiev” speech. Rather than encouraging […]

Zohran Mamdani, son of a politics professor and a Disney director, is a child of immense privilege, so it’s easy to dismiss his ideas about policing as the product of youthful excess emerging untouched by reality from an insulated upbringing. But Mamdani is a heavy favorite to become the next mayor of New York City, […]