Opinion

The final delegates put the next Democratic nominee for president over the top to clinch the nomination. The crowd is electric inside the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, before exploding in applause after the state of New York announces its favorite son is going to take on Vice President JD Vance for the presidency. “There […]

As we mark the 80th anniversary of two events that profoundly altered the course of history, the memory of them is a grim tribute to American ingenuity and technology. In August 1945, the Enola Gay, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress bomber, dropped Little Boy, a uranium-based atomic bomb, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed by […]

President Donald Trump made his name as a celebrity businessman by firing people in dramatic fashion. But taking the same approach as president doesn’t always work out so well. Trump just fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a division of the Labor Department that compiles and publishes data about the economy, including […]

The United States and India seem to be at a crossroads. Relations between Washington and New Delhi have been strained over India’s relationship with Russia, trade disputes, and other matters. Yet the long-term trajectory of the U.S.–India partnership remains on solid ground. The two countries have a lot in common. Both are vibrant democracies, were […]

The decision in front of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Cabinet is an awful one. 20 Israelis are alive in the tunnels of Gaza, where they are brutalized every day. Hamas is, of course, a terrorist organization, but also at least the equal of any sadists who have organized into a militia. The […]

A little over a month into his second term in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order promising to “expand access” to in vitro fertilization. That order called for recommendations to be submitted in 90 days. One hundred sixty-eight days have passed, and doctors profiting off the IVF industry are now complaining to the […]