Addressing the Valdai conference in Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin engaged in one of his favored refrains. Offering a litany of historical (and mostly ahistorical) grievances, Putin falsely blamed the West for escalating against Russia. And ignoring the grave defeat such action would impose upon his nation, Putin resurrected his nuclear threats. Putin’s […]
Meta recently agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion and fundamentally change how Facebook and Instagram operate for young users. The settlement followed years of mounting evidence, whistleblower disclosures, lawsuits, and testimony from families about the effects social media can have on children. Among the changes Meta agreed to make are restrictions on endless scrolling, […]
This summer, Medicare proposed expanding its push toward “site-neutral” payments, which seek to eliminate some of the differences in what Medicare pays for the same outpatient care depending on where it’s delivered. But there’s a catch. What looks cheaper on Medicare’s ledger can prove far more expensive over the course of a patient’s care. A […]
The politicization of public health, growing misinformation, and unnecessary shifts in federal recommendations opposed by the medical community are fueling confusion over proven childhood vaccines. Despite that, Americans have continued to make clear their desire to maintain widespread access to vaccines and keep decision-making on immunization between them and their physicians. Recent polling reveals a […]
A FlyDubai flight headed toward Tel Aviv, Israel, nearly crashed on Wednesday after its Omani co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain while shouting “Allahu achbar” and took control of the plane carrying roughly 180 passengers, largely Israeli. If not for the heroism of those on board, an untold number of lives could have been lost in […]
Every controller knows the sentence that ends careers: “We booked that as revenue.” For a year, Washington booked tariff collections as revenue. Then the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Learning Resources v. Trump that the emergency law behind tariffs never authorized them. Now the money is going back out the door. The scale is hard […]
In the years following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the landscape of American reproductive healthcare has undergone a profound structural shift. For policymakers and advocates who spent decades working toward state-level restrictions, the implementation of total or near-total bans in 13 states represents a monumental statutory milestone. However, achieving a legislative victory […]
At long last, America’s job creators can fully protect their workers from racist, sexist, and other harassing verbal attacks. It’s a shock that that sentence has to be written in the year 2026. The Civil Rights Act, which was supposed to end harassing language in the workplace, has been the law of the land since […]
Tennessee attempted to carry out the death sentence imposed on Christa Pike on Wednesday. The state administered its prescribed lethal-injection procedure. Pike survived. Instead of leaving the execution chamber deceased, she was transported to a medical facility. The Tennessee Department of Correction subsequently maintained that every step of its authorized protocol had been followed and […]
I have spent the last several nights thinking about Flydubai Flight 1073, and there is a question I cannot shake. I think we should all be asking it: How did this flight ever leave Dubai with this crew? The extraordinary story of what happened in the air has understandably dominated the headlines. A captain was […]
For Poles, Sept. 17 is a day of mourning. On that date in 1939, 16 days after Adolf Hitler invaded Poland from the west, Josef Stalin’s Red Army invaded from the east, under the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Under communist rule, public commemoration of the date was censored and suppressed. Seventy years later, […]
Six U.S. corporations at the forefront of artificial intelligence signed an accord this week called the “Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities.” It is neither a contract nor law, but a voluntary agreement that President Donald Trump calls “morally binding.” The United States now has a foundation for an emerging domestic AI safety architecture. But we […]
A year of credit monitoring can help an American service member detect identity theft. It cannot tell that person whether a foreign intelligence service is assembling a dossier around the exposed record. That is the gap raised by the Pentagon’s newly disclosed personnel data breach. A U.S. defense official told ABC News that the incident […]
The Trump administration just inked deals with nine more pharmaceutical companies that agreed to offer Medicaid the same low prices that foreign countries pay. In exchange, President Donald Trump promised to spare these manufacturers from tariffs. So far, the president has struck these voluntary agreements with 26 drugmakers in total. And he has loudly touted […]
