Gov. Gavin Newsom’s announcement that California cities and counties need “to take urgent action” to remove homeless encampments from public spaces is the highest level of endorsement for a proven failure of a tactic.

It’s also a stunning example of Newsom’s ability to turn the blame of statewide failures away from himself and his ...Read more

While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the U.S. military accepting used equipment from another country, President Donald Trump’s plan to use a Boeing 747 from Qatar as a new Air Force One and then keeping it for his own personal use after leaving office has too many problems to fly.

From appearance’s sake to security concerns to the ...Read more

President Donald Trump celebrates controversy. He also must revel in unnecessarily gifting his political opponents issues to exploit.

That would appear to be the case with the latest White House dust-up, this one involving a “free” plane from Qatar. The Middle Eastern nation is reportedly considering donating a 10-year-old Boeing 747-8 to ...Read more

We are in the important pre-primary phase of the 2026 elections in Illinois (circulation of petitions opens in September), when prospective candidates strut their endorsements — and money raised — in efforts to scare off possible opponents. In our basically one-party state, Democratic wannabes are coming off a long bench to make their cases....Read more

If you’ve been on Instagram recently, you may have seen Insta stories of giddy teens dumping water — which doesn’t even contain ice — on their friends in the name of #SpeakYourMIND. Influencers give pretty speeches in which they claim “mental health is important!” and give a cheerful thumbs-up of support.

According to its own ...Read more

“Merit” is making a comeback in higher education. Next stop: U.S. service academies.

College officials around the country—including those at some of the most selective (and notoriously left-leaning) schools—have admitted a student’s high school grades and often-obscure extracurricular activities aren’t enough for making admissions ...Read more

With the news that the royal family of Qatar is gifting a $400 million airliner to the Trump administration to use as a new Air Force One, it has become clear to me that if President Donald Trump were a country, he’d be Qatar.

Trump and Qatar have the same fundamental moral flexibility. Trump is for raising taxes on the rich and lowering ...Read more

If you watch HBO’s “The Last of Us,” you see how a pandemic didn’t destroy the world — failure to communicate did. Trust collapsed. Institutions froze. And the people paid the price.

That’s fiction. But it’s also a warning.

In 2025, it’s not a zombie-creating fungus we face — it’s a slow-motion unraveling of America’s ...Read more

At 12:33 p.m. local time on a crystal blue Monday, the system that provides the power essential to the daily lives of 50 million-plus people collapsed. The lights went out from Lisbon to Barcelona; trains stopped, air traffic controllers went offline and hospital workers scrambled to keep patients alive. Two highly modern, eminently civilized ...Read more

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has evicted an anthology I co-edited with philosopher Laura Westra from the U.S. Naval Academy library. I don’t know about Laura, but I’m pleased that they thought some midshipman may want to read “Faces of Environmental Racism,” published initially in 1995. In the 30 years since, we may have poisoned ...Read more

The price of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight-loss drug, is $1,349 a month in the U.S.; in Germany, it’s $328. The U.S. price for Keytruda, a cancer treatment, is $191,000 a year; in Japan, it’s $44,000. The U.S. pays three times more for branded prescription drugs, on average, than other rich countries. It certainly looks as ...Read more

Nancy MacLean, a Duke professor of history and public policy, studies the past, but these days she should also get credit for predicting the future.

MacLean’s 2017 book, “Democracy in Chains,” explored how Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch and others sought to free capitalism from regulation by creating systems that would enable a ...Read more

This week, the U.S. and China reached an initial trade agreement that will, in theory, halt the countries’ slide toward a full-blown trade war.

Yet the dynamics that fueled President Donald Trump’s attempt to single-handedly decouple the world’s two largest economies persist. Absent more vigorous efforts to limit misunderstandings and ...Read more

The Democrats are leaderless; the Democrats have an identity crisis; the Democrats have lousy approval ratings. None of that precludes them from having a successful midterm election in 2026.

Let’s, for a moment, focus on some hard data.

Per a YouGov poll for The Economist conducted May 2-5, American voters view Democrats in Congress quite ...Read more

The opening paragraph of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 wrote, "America is now divided between two opposing forces: woke revolutionaries and those who believe in the ideals of the American Revolution."

What a perfect example of fake news. By taking on the mantle of American values and attacking their opponents as destroying those values...Read more

My father, Jawdat Bseiso, was 23 when everything changed.

As the favorite son of Mahrous Mustafa Bseiso — one of the largest landowners in southern Palestine — he was being groomed to inherit our family’s legacy. My grandfather was a prominent businessman in Beersheba, a thriving Palestinian city where Muslims, Christians and Jews once ...Read more

Only in the upside-down world of Donald Trump’s second term can 30% import duties on our largest trading partner be considered a positive sign, with the stock market soaring. So yes, the Trump administration and China announced a deal to lower tariffs. But it’s only slated to last 90 days, and it is merely lowering the tariff rate from an ...Read more