In recent weeks, American politics have stopped resembling a democracy and started looking more like a Manson family group chat, with a flag emoji right next to the “pile of poo” emoji in our bio.

First it was the Young Republicans (you know, the nerds who used to wear ill-fitting sports jackets and drone on about budgets) who were caught ...Read more

Upheaval is threatening the stabilizing course of China-U.S. relations. On Oct. 10, U.S. President Donald Trump published an unusually long post on Truth Social, threatening to impose 100% tariffs on all Chinese products and restrict China-bound exports of critical software starting Nov. 1, in retaliation for what he calls “extremely hostile�...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s anti-Trump, anti-Texas congressional redistricting gamble seems about to pay off.

Newsom’s bet on Proposition 50 is looking like a winner, although we won’t really know until the vote count is released starting election night Nov. 4.

Insiders closely watching the high-stakes campaign would be ...Read more

Just as the political health of a nation requires trust in elected officials, the physical and mental health of Americans depends on the trust embedded in the doctor-patient relationship.

For most of the past century, that bond was ironclad. Now, that relationship is fraying.

Gallup polling shows just 44% of Americans rate the quality of care ...Read more

Call it industrial policy, state capitalism, old-fashioned socialism: It’s a bad idea. Across several recent administrations, the U.S. government’s role in the economy has grown increasingly intrusive. The current White House has taken things to an extreme. It’s a tried-and-failed experiment that should be scrapped before it does any more ...Read more

After surviving three types of cancer and having to face the harsh realities of colorectal and endometrial cancer and basal cell carcinoma, I know just how crucial early detection can be in saving lives.

My cancer journey has been an extensive and painful one, but it has also strengthened my resolve. It has inspired me to become an advocate ...Read more

If there's one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, it's that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime, should never, ever be considered for the pardon or commutation that President Trump has hinted at.

Trump violated all of Maxwell's many victims when he inexcusably allowed her to be...Read more

Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, long time coming.

If you cut through all of the back-and-forth over the past week regarding the war in Ukraine, the central issue remains the same. And unresolved.

Putin invaded a sovereign nation. That country fought back harder than the Russian ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemitism. But he stumbles and dodges when asked to venture beyond his surface-level focus on affordability and his four, and only four, narrow planks: child care, ...Read more

For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for American consumers, rapid growth for China and an intricate web of supply chains binding the world’s two largest economies together. The Chinese people — hardworking, innovative and industrious — have been ...Read more

A week before I gave birth last February, the research team I work with published a study in a prominent scientific journal on how paid family leave affects maternal and child health. The study found that having access to paid family leave led to a decrease in postpartum depression and an increase in the number of weeks babies are breastfed.

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The scenes have been all over the news.

In Colorado, ICE smashes the window of a car with a 1-month-old inside, his mother crying out, “There’s a baby in here!”

A family of four in Chicago is surrounded at Millennium Park by heavily armed and masked immigration agents, while the 8-year-old daughter clutches her doll and sobs. The mother ...Read more

The governor of Utah has a problem. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and a dry lakebed threatens to send arsenic-laced dust plumes across the state’s most populated areas.

Gov. Spencer Cox has risen to national prominence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s horrific slaying at Utah Valley University last month by calling on Americans to tone ...Read more

As President Donald Trump could have told you long ago, no international figure knows how to charm a visiting American like that other fellow who has been sharing the world stage with him for years.

But none of that was obvious on a night way back in 2010, in St. Petersburg, Russia. An audience studded with imported Hollywood stars had settled...Read more

The NCAA picked a hell of a week to get into the gambling business, didn't it?

Within 24 hours of approving a rule change that will allow student athletes and athletic department staff to bet only on professional sports, the FBI arrested more than 30 people in connection with a major sports gambling and betting scheme. The level of ...Read more

A few weeks ago, when new proposals limiting J and F visa expansion were open for public comment, immigration quickly became a hot topic again at our research center, where more than half the scientists come from abroad. Some worried about their plan, others traded news and updates about the H1-B. A colleague asked if I was anxious too. To my ...Read more

In defending his highly controversial proposal to impose a $21-per-month tax on the number of people big companies employ in Chicago, Mayor Brandon Johnson likes to emphasize that the 100-employee threshold he is supporting confines the tax to a small fraction of the private-sector employers operating in the city.

Johnson told reporters last ...Read more

Criminals go to great lengths to obtain things of value. That’s worth remembering with universal mail ballots.

This month, thieves stole crown jewels from the Louvre. The brazen daytime heist took place while the museum was open. The thieves drove a truck with an electric ladder up to the museum and entered through a window. They then smashed...Read more

Don’t toss out your protein powder just yet.

A recent report about lead levels in protein supplements sparked unnecessary alarm about a product that an increasing number of Americans are using to meet their fitness and nutrition goals.

The alarm is largely overblown. But the strong public reaction to what was once a niche product should ...Read more