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Inside NASA’s fast-track plans for lunar nuclear power and new space stations to outpace global rivals

Facing a new space race with China and Russia, NASA is fast-tracking lunar nuclear power development and commercial space station contracts despite a 25% budget reduction.

Trump and Putin’s relationship turns sour as president pushes for resolution with Ukraine

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin's once-friendly relationship has unraveled amid ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Teachers unions lose, parents win under major policy move says red state schools chief

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is eliminating statewide standardized end-of-year testing for several subjects to give “local control back to school districts."

California Democrat drops out of governor’s race to run for a different role

California's lieutenant governor is dropping out of the governor's race and instead mounting a bid for the role of Golden State treasurer

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Could California drive out In-N-Out?

In-N-Out stands above all competitors not only because of its quality but also because of its positive association with the state it calls home (Sorry, Texas, Whataburger just doesn’t compare). But that relationship is slowly dwindling, and the “In-N-Out” name might soon describe the chain’s time in California. In-N-Out was founded in California in 1948, becoming a West Coast […]

Aztec Batman: Defender of human sacrifice

There’s usually a fun element to fictionalizing history. Imagine a world where Dwight Eisenhower shot Adolf Hitler to end World War II in place of the führer’s bunker suicide, or John Wilkes Booth being stopped by a good Samaritan who saved Abraham Lincoln’s life and allowed the 16th president to deliver on his promise of […]

Scott Bessent is staying on the job at a pivotal point for Trump’s agenda

PITTSBURGH — It should come as no surprise that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declined to be the next Federal Reserve chairman. Spend any time listening to Bessent talk, and it is clear he is laser-focused on one thing, something he can only accomplish in his current job: lifting America’s economy into a position where both […]

The moral the merrier

Gallup’s annual surveys on the moral acceptability of various issues have produced largely predictable results, with social conservatives remaining in the minority on most measures. The findings were generally unremarkable, except on the question of polygamy, which stands out as a growing point of divergence among younger respondents. It remains the case that a strong […]

Things could get worse for late-night TV once Trump is gone

In a surprise move, CBS is sunsetting The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Colbert’s show debuted following the retirement of David Letterman, who hosted Late Night on the network from 1993 to 2015. Much has been made of the cancellation, and naturally, CBS is taking a lot of arrows from those claiming the move is […]

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