Future generations will regard with shock and wonder decisions by Democratic states about questions raised by the interaction of transgender ideology, religious freedom, and the First Amendment. Massachusetts authorities are threatening to remove children from even stable foster parents who refuse to sign agreements to “promote,” “support,” and “affirm” a child’s gender identity or expression. […]

“I’ve grown deeply concerned,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), a physician, told Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a blistering Senate hearing earlier this month. The Wyoming senator warned that “safe, proven vaccines like measles, like hepatitis B, and others, could be in jeopardy.” Less than 200 days after Kennedy promised the Senate he wouldn’t touch vaccine access, he’s […]

An infectious disease — one that rejects scientific expertise, metastasizes conspiracy theories and contaminates programs that track and treat illnesses — has entered the body politic of America’s public health agencies.

Missouri Republicans advanced a new set of congressional lines this month that look to add one pickup opportunity for them in the House ahead of 2026, making them the third state poised to tee up a new House map before the midterms. Legislators in the Show Me State convened for a special session over several...

An effort by President Trump's administration to curb advertising for pharmaceutical drugs on television is posing a potential marketing hurdle for some of the country's largest drugmakers while threatening a key revenue stream for media companies. Advertising and pharmaceutical industry experts say an executive order Trump signed this week could pose an existential threat to...

President Trump was meeting with architects about plans for a White House ballroom when staff interrupted to inform him that Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative activist, had been killed. "I didn't know what they meant. I said, 'What do you mean, dead?'" Trump recounted Friday, two days after the shooting. “‘Charlie Kirk was shot.’ They thought...

Presidential historian Tevi Troy explains how social media has transformed public consumption of political violence footage following Charlie Kirk's killing at Utah Valley University.