As the CEO of a public policy group in the Free State of Florida, one that has worked on health policy for nearly 30 years, I have never met Dr. Anthony Fauci. Yet as someone who has spent much of my career engaged in this arena, I read over, with interest, the inner thoughts he […]

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 […]

President Donald Trump faces declining public approval and criticism from both parties as a long-running war with Iran reaches a stalemate despite his initial claims of quick victory.