As classrooms reopened this fall, many teachers returned to school with both new lesson plans and new boundaries — political ones.

According to EdChoice and Morning Consult’s most recent educator survey, which polled teachers at the end of September, about 40% of America’s teachers say they’ve had to change what they teach or discuss in...Read more

Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.

The recent demolition of the White House’s East Wing �...Read more

You might find the following question on a first-grade math test: “Fill in the box: 7+2=[blank]+6.” But what you wouldn’t expect is for 25 percent of incoming freshman at a highly ranked university to get the question wrong. But they did.

A report released this month by the University of California, San Diego, lays bare the fraud that ...Read more

Under the guise of reducing homelessness, President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” removes protections against involuntary institutionalization. This threatens to undo decades of progress toward creating inclusive lives for people with disabilities.

In an interview with the Daily...Read more

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we hadn’t been asked about before: spelling. In fact, over the summer, he had literally asked me: “What is spelling?”

Most ...Read more

America’s enemies are growing bolder and more sophisticated in cyberspace. To fend them off, the government must stop unilaterally disarming.

Two recent reports underscore the danger. In mid-October, Seattle-based cybersecurity firm F5 Inc. acknowledged a “catastrophic” breach of its systems, which may have allowed Chinese hackers to ...Read more

She’s a little bit country; he’s a little bit rock ‘n’ roll.

And me? I’m a little bit stunned. Two politicians have emerged, against all odds, to surprise and impress us this year: Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

You’d be hard-pressed to find two Americans less similar — politically, culturally...Read more

As the Democrat-imposed government shutdown sputters to a close, the Federal Aviation Administration says that airline traffic will take weeks to get back to normal. That will add to the millions of travelers who have already had their flights delayed, disrupted and even derailed altogether. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Even the socialists...Read more

The strangest thing about the recent shutdown fight in Congress is that a quarrel ostensibly about health-care subsidies failed to stir any real debate about health-care reform.

Washington prefers not to open that can of worms. The fact remains, this system’s defects weren’t just the proximate cause of the past month’s paralysis. They ...Read more

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high-tech interventions but to eating lots of plain yogurt.

Her successor is also a woman, 116-year-old Ethel Catherman. And the record for ...Read more

I remember the knot in my stomach when I had to tell one of my best workers at Miramar Group that we might not be able to keep offering affordable health coverage. He’s been with me for years — reliable, hardworking, with two kids. The look on his face said everything: Without decent health insurance, his family is one accident away from ...Read more

Seven out of the nine universities that the Trump administration invited to offer feedback on the so-called Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education have politely declined to sign on. At its core, the compact offers preferential treatment in exchange for institutional support for President Donald Trump’s political agenda. This ...Read more

In 1883, Emma Lazarus, a young Jewish woman who cared for detained immigrants in New York, wrote a poem she titled “The New Colossus” to raise money for the pedestal to support the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the people of France.

To many Americans, the last few lines are the most meaningful and familiar.

“Give me your tired, your ...Read more

The drumbeat to release the Epstein files just got a lot louder. Emails from disgraced financier and sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein released by House Democrats Wednesday say President Donald Trump “knew about the girls” and “spent hours” with a victim at Epstein’s house. Those allegations, whether true or not, must be addressed — ...Read more

This is how winning political coalitions unravel. An unforeseen development roils one of the major political parties.

For the Democratic Party, that development was Donald Trump in 2016. For the Republican Party, that development is growing antisemitism on the right, especially among younger voters.

The smoldering tensions flared into open ...Read more

There’s no room in the budget to cut, we’re told.

All education dollars are for the children, we’re told.

So why did Chicago Public Schools bankroll a teacher’s $4,700 trip to a Hawaiian luxury resort, a suburban spa retreat for elementary school staff and limo (not Uber) services to and from Chicago airports?

Many folks can’t even ...Read more

We are being ruled by the "Epstein class," and voters deserve to know the details of that particular scandal, and to be able to expect better of their leaders in the larger sense.

That's the message we'll be hearing a lot in the coming weeks and months now that Democrats have successfully moved forward their effort to release the full ...Read more

This week, Canada officially lost its measles elimination status, which it held for nearly 30 years — a shameful consequence of falling childhood vaccination rates.

In normal times, Canada’s misfortune might serve as yet another wake-up call for public health leaders in the U.S., which is precariously close to losing its own measles-free ...Read more

Last week, a massive commercial vessel was hijacked 620 nautical miles off the coast of Somalia. Formally flagged to Malta, the Hellas Aphrodite is a Greek-owned tanker that was carrying gasoline from India to South Africa — a transit through dangerous waters off Africa’s eastern coast.

Fortunately, a European Union mission focused on ...Read more

Democrats' caterwauling this week after a few of their senators caved to end the government shutdown couldn't completely drown out another noise: the sound of President Donald Trump pinballing dumb "policy" ideas as he flails to respond to voters' unhappiness that his promised Golden Age is proving golden only for him, his family and his donors....Read more