The children from the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school, a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, should have been sitting in classrooms, giggling with their friends, and dreaming about recess — not wondering if they would survive that day. Their parents should have been looking forward to picking them up that afternoon, hearing the day’s stories, ...Read more

When I read all the hype being heaped on Kamala Harris’ lead in early polls for the 2028 Democratic nomination, I have to chuckle to myself.

The release of a Rasmussen Reports poll in February was titled, “Kamala Harris Still Leads 2028 Field for Democrats.” One headline in the Hill predicted, “Kamala Harris may yet be the Democratic ...Read more

Two recent election results have Black voters, strategists and activists talking. One is the Senate Democratic primary in Texas, which saw Representative Jasmine Crockett lose pretty handily to James Talarico, a white candidate who is centrist in bearing if not in policy. The other is the Senate Democratic primary in Illinois, which saw ...Read more

Global fragmentation appears to be well underway. The astonishing shift in U.S. foreign and economic policy is a primary cause, but the picture is far from simple and implicates many other factors. How to make sense of this teeming disorder? Where will these shifting forces lead the world?

For a persuasively bleak assessment, read "The Doom ...Read more

Encountering animals in nature—whether on a hiking trail, at the beach or in a neighborhood park—can be one of the most rewarding aspects of spending time outdoors.

Spring break, specifically, brings millions of visitors to natural spaces and vacation destinations, often for the first time. Yet many nature enthusiasts unintentionally put ...Read more

For generations, the United States has framed legal immigration as a kind of social contract. Since 1965, when the Immigration and Nationality Act ended the national-origin quota system, the U.S. has formally opened legal immigration to people from around the world without racial or national-origin preferences.

If people from across the globe ...Read more

American farmers have become among the most productive in the world at growing grains. In doing so, to keep afloat, they have been depleting our rich soils, polluting water from Des Moines to the sprawling dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, driving prices down, increasing farmer debt, and drawing heavily on taxpayer welfare.

Something is wrong ...Read more

At a moment when America’s home insurance crisis has become bad enough to turn conservatives into socialists, a possible solution may just involve — you guessed it — big government. And contra Ronald Reagan, in this case there’s reason to think the government truly can help.

To address soaring insurance premiums and coverage gaps in an ...Read more

Dolores Huerta broke her silence 60 years after Cesar Chavez had assaulted her. In her statement, Dolores Huerta said, “I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work.” She did not want to hurt the movement.

After 15 years of working with survivors and supporting ...Read more

It is not easy to be an American Muslim today. At a time when the United States is engaged in yet another conflict involving a Muslim-majority country, rhetoric from a growing number of public figures, including some of our highest officials, continues to vilify Islam and cast suspicion on Muslims as disloyal or dangerous. Too often, national ...Read more

The year was 1998. Bill Clinton was in the White House, Titanic was packing movie theaters and a startup with a funny name, Google, was just launching.

In California, voters were choosing their next governor.

There was great anticipation surrounding a political heavyweight and whether she'd jump into the race. There was a rich businessman ...Read more

Gov. Kathy Hochul said that she had no choice from a hostile federal government and had to change the state’s Essential Plan health coverage and thus potentially remove nearly a half-million New Yorkers from this zero-premium plan. The request to alter the program received preliminary approval from Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers ...Read more

On May 31, 1969, the first student speaker to address a Wellesley College graduation took the stage. You already know her name: Hillary Rodham.

The future first lady and secretary of state — who later took the last name of her husband, Bill Clinton — was preceded at the podium by Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, a moderate Republican and ...Read more

User taxes don’t function properly when some users are able to avoid the tax.

Fuel taxes and vehicle fees are two major sources of revenue for Nevada’s State Highway Fund. This makes sense. Officials use the State Highway Fund to build and maintain roads for vehicles.

Nevada Department of Transportation Director Tracy Larkin Thomason ...Read more

Governing, the political sages tell us, is all about making choices, particularly when leadership faces finite resources and the choices are between war and peace; this is the "guns or butter" balancing raised by Lyndon Johnson's pursuit of the Vietnam War and, appropriately, by President Donald Trump's Iran war.

Thus far, according to budget ...Read more

Free child care is starting to take root in the U.S. But is it good for kids?

Last year, New Mexico became the first state to offer free universal child care. This year, New York began offering free child care for children ages 0-3 in certain cities, with a goal of reaching all children under 5 by 2028. Massachusetts has set its sights on ...Read more

On Monday, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to threaten voting by mail, as Washington and other states do it, during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee.

This troubling development comes at the same time the RNC, with President Donald Trump’s backing, is pressing Congress to pass the Safeguard ...Read more

I was incredibly close to my grandparents. They were thoughtful, well-read and deeply engaged citizens who believed strongly in civic participation. They followed the news and took voting seriously.

Despite my curiosity and more than a few questions over the years, I still have no idea for whom they voted.

That was not unusual for their ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s disastrous war on Iran is weakening the United States, while presenting America’s principal adversaries, China and Russia, with a strategic opportunity to expand their global influence.

The war in Iran is already diverting U.S. attention and resources from Ukraine and East Asia at an alarming level, giving China and...Read more

The United States and Israel are devastating the parasitic Islamic regime that has squandered the wealth of Iran for decades and exported terror across the Middle East. Understanding the biggest losers in this war is just as important as any battle damage assessment on the rubble of government buildings in Tehran.

The third Gulf War is very bad...Read more