Opinion

Healthcare costs are weighing heavily on Americans’ minds. A new Pew Research Center survey found that 73% of Americans consider the affordability of healthcare a “very big problem” for the country. Congress has noticed. In recent months, lawmakers have held a series of healthcare affordability hearings examining why healthcare costs are rising — and what […]

New polling from the Market Institute and President Donald Trump’s pollster Fabrizio Ward finds that an overwhelming 87% of voters believe fighting Alzheimer’s should be a priority. Nearly 4 in 5 say they are more likely to support candidates who prioritize better access to Alzheimer’s detection, diagnosis, and treatment. The good news is these results […]

The United States and Israel have earned the right to say they hurt Iran. They have not earned the right to say they changed it. That distinction is now in danger of disappearing. The recent campaign against Iran produced real gains. Iran’s nuclear program was set back. Military infrastructure was damaged. Senior figures in its […]

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is a technocrat who is inept, a would-be despot who doesn’t believe in anything, and a career politician who lacks all charm and political skill. That is, Keir Starmer was the man for the U.K.’s dreadful moment. Starmer is resigning. He had no grand fatal flaw. He was […]

Socialist Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic nomination for mayor of Washington, D.C., presenting her victory as one brought by and for the working class. But an analysis by the Washington Examiner found that many of her small donors are located in progressive enclaves. “I’m honored to be the presumptive Democratic nominee for the mayor […]

The downside of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade has been the rise of chemical abortion and the way it allows abortion sellers to circumvent state laws designed to protect unborn children and their mothers. While exact numbers are hard to pin down, the accepted wisdom is that chemical abortion now accounts […]

In the 2022–2023 school year, the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland introduced a set of LGBT-inclusive storybooks into its elementary curriculum, kindergarten through fifth grade. The books featured story lines built around sexuality and gender identity for children as young as five. Initially, the board offered parents the choice to opt out. But […]

At 17, I was an aspiring ballerina with my whole life ahead of me. That all changed when I met Jeffrey Epstein. I was brought into Epstein’s orbit under the guise of being a masseuse to make a little extra money on the side.  It didn’t take long for Epstein to use one of the […]

In emergency medicine, there is no time to hedge. When someone’s life is on the line — whether on the scene of a car wreck, in the back of an ambulance, or in a trauma bay — you act on the information in front of you. Delay isn’t a strategy. Delay is a choice. And […]

Families are feeling the pressure at the checkout line, the gas pump, and when the bills come due. Keeping up with the cost of living is now the most pressing challenge for households across the country, and people are looking for solutions that bring some relief. The latest data from the consumer price index show […]

In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russians that invading Ukraine was an act of self-defense. If NATO were left unchecked, he warned, Western missiles would soon be able to reach deep into Russia — past Volgograd, Kazan, Samara, even beyond the Ural Mountains. To prevent that nightmare, he launched what the Kremlin euphemistically […]

The Strait of Hormuz remains a pivotal flashpoint in the U.S.-Iran conflict — an ace card that Tehran repeatedly plays to hedge against American power. At the recent Group of Seven summit in France, President Donald Trump praised Chinese President Xi Jinping for remaining “neutral” during a peak in U.S.-Iran tensions, suggesting that Beijing showed […]