My father died from a smoking-related disease. As a physician, I have seen versions of his story repeated too many times: patients who knew cigarettes were harming them, wanted to stop, tried to stop — and still could not fully break free. That experience shaped my view of public health long before I served as […]

First, let us get it clear: Human life begins not with birth but with the fertilized egg. As soon as the sperm inserts itself into the egg, there is a new human being in existence. He, not it, is very young, incapable of entering into contracts, and does not even look at all like the […]

As the costs of the Iran campaign mount and Congress fights over a bill to cover them, a familiar question is circulating in Washington: Did this war have to happen? It is the right question aimed at the wrong date. The honest ledger on this conflict does not open on Feb. 28, 2026, when the […]

In 1981, one of Washington’s most respected Democratic elder statesmen dismissed the new president as an “amiable dunce.” Clark Clifford, a former Secretary of Defense, said it at a dinner; the phrase leaked and became the era’s shorthand. Kind, but foolish. Likable, but lost. Forty years later, Gallup found that 69% of Americans, nearly half […]

When a federal bank examiner leans on a bank to close a customer’s account and that closure destroys the customer’s business, the government has taken private property without paying for it. That is a distinct constitutional claim, separate from the shareholder duty-of-care questions now working through the courts, and on June 10, the Department of […]

Former South Carolina GOP chair Katon Dawson told The Hill’s sister news network, NewsNation, in an interview on Tuesday that it’s “not a given” that Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) will win the open GOP primary to serve the full six-year term for the South Carolina Senate seat. “Don’t think so. If that was the case,...

As of Tuesday, eighty-two cases of Legionnaires' disease had also been identified in connection with the outbreak.

Ukraine has developed an effective, if not necessarily novel, strategy of attrition: kill more Russian soldiers, faster.

Former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson (D) has a slight lead over incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R) in new polling on a hypothetical Senate showdown in Maine. A University of New Hampshire poll found 49 percent of likely general election voters in the Pine Tree State said they would vote for Jackson over Collins, who...

President Trump is at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday morning to attend the dignified transfer of troops killed over the weekend in Jordan and Iraq. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is joining him. Trump early Wednesday again demanded Iran end its targeting of vessels, threatening its civilian infrastructure. Trump travels to Marietta, Ga.,...