Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose illiberal right-wing policies have served as a template for President Donald Trump’s second term, was roundly defeated last Sunday. His electoral loss, after 16 years in power, offers a lesson for those seeking to safeguard the American experiment from the president’s autocratic bent.

Perhaps ...Read more

Even as the U.S. and Iran flirt with a return to negotiations, each appears convinced it can dish out more pain — and absorb more — than its opponent. They’d both be wiser to accept the compromises needed to bring their six-week conflict to a close.

Exactly what derailed marathon peace talks in Islamabad last weekend — and whether they ...Read more

President Donald Trump has called for the privatization of airport security at smaller airports, a recommendation outlined in Project 2025. Though the president has a record of making specious statements and wild recommendations, in this case, he is spot-on and perhaps doesn’t go far enough.

The Transportation Security Administration has had ...Read more

April 24 is Arbor Day, when Americans will gather to plant trees on city streets, in parks, and within other open spaces. But this year, as wildfires, drought and flooding threaten communities from California to the Carolinas, we need to think bigger than individual saplings.

Arbor Day was founded in 1872 to green the once-treeless Great Plains...Read more

The biggest losers in Sunday’s extraordinary election in Hungary, aside from its four-term autocratic prime minister Viktor Orbán, were Russia’s Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump.

Moreover, the reasons for Orbán’s fall offer surprising parallels with diminishing support for the U.S. president. And the restoration of Hungarian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When I was a child, I watched “The Jetsons” and “Lost in Space” and imagined my adult self living in a world of high-tech ease: flying cars, self-cleaning rooms, high-speed trains, personal jetpacks and wise-cracking robotic companions capable of solving any problem in a trice.

Instead I got Google (now with an ...Read more

Praise be to Allah.

For the second time in two weeks, President Donald Trump used that phrase in a post about the Israel-U.S. war against Iran.

Crowing about the alleged destruction of Iran’s planes, ships and bases in a Truth Social post Saturday, he emphasized his greatest victory in the monthlong campaign: “Most importantly, their ...Read more

The negotiations between the United States and Iran in Islamabad had to fail. That doesn’t mean future rounds, perhaps already starting this week, are futile. But the American approach to diplomacy has doomed the talks so far for the same two reasons that it has hampered efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, say, or to turn...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When Jody Abramson enlisted in the resistance, volunteering to ferry kindergarteners to and from school, she knew little about the experiences of new immigrants in her community.

One afternoon an Ecuadorian boy fell asleep in the backseat of her old Toyota, so there was Abramson, a stranger, gently carrying him over a snowbank ...Read more

President Donald Trump has made strides in paring back the corpulent administrative state, but a new analysis highlights significant work remains.

Last week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the proliferation of federal laws, rules and regulations. The cost of excessive red tape is ...Read more

When the people of Hungary decided clearly on Sunday to vote out their right-wing populist leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, he had the decency to concede his defeat. Too bad that America’s right-wing populist leader, President Donald Trump, doesn’t have that same sense of decency about fair play and winning and losing. Being a gracious ...Read more

Every parent should be paying attention to what’s been going on at Lake Zurich High School.

In an April 2 communication to families, school officials said police are investigating allegations that students used artificial intelligence to generate and share explicit, pornographic images using the likeness of other students.

District ...Read more

With gasoline prices over $4 a gallon, the highest level since 2022, it’s clear that the war with Iran is inflicting economic pain. And not just at the pump: Food prices are poised to rise significantly if federal lawmakers do nothing to address a fertilizer crisis that was, in part, their own making.

The problem stems from countervailing ...Read more

Here they come again.

The left-leaning legal intelligentsia — the crowd that spent four years weaponizing the Department of Justice against Donald Trump, his associates and anyone who dared support him — has now cooked up a scheme to torch the American justice system from the inside out.

Jury nullification.

Rogue judges’ rulings to ...Read more

Earth Day (April 22) arrives this year in the shadow of endless doomscrolling: Record-shattering heat, cities swallowed by rising waters, devastating wildfires and conflicts around the globe seize the headlines, each catastrophe sliding into the next with the flick of a thumb.

It’s no surprise that we’re anxious. And yet, when we do ...Read more

The last year has seen an unprecedented stress test for the American rule of law. While much of the public discourse has focused on the targeting of political rivals for criminal prosecution — facts and evidence notwithstanding — a less noticed but equally vital shift is occurring. Federal grand juries and trial juries are exercising a...Read more

It was just six months ago that Senate Democrats shut down the government rather than address the failures of ObamaCare. Their rhetoric was dark, warning of disaster for millions of people and families who might be forced to pay more for their own health care unless the GOP agreed to extend subsidies for those who purchased coverage on state ...Read more

Why now? Why now?

Every time a woman comes forward with her story of sexual assault, this is the first question she faces. OK, maybe the second — after some variation of "Are you a lying slut?"

At least we are consistent. But on behalf of all survivors everywhere, of any gender, identity or age, let me give you some blanket answers to "Why ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eric Swalwell is out— of the California gubernatorial race and Congress, spending time with family, as they say, after allegations of rape and sexual misconduct. That could be considered good news for the slew of Democrats who remain in the running, and even the two Republicans currently polling near the top.

But this ...Read more