A 16-year-old gunman shot two students at his Denver-area high school last Wednesday before killing himself, a terrible act of violence that received fleeting attention due to the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah at nearly the same time.

While the crimes were starkly different, the two suspects shared a common ...Read more

An important way to tell whether a corrections system is working is to track how many people end up back behind bars after serving time.

For years now, Illinois has left the public in the dark about how many people are returning to prison after release.

The phenomenon is called recidivism, which refers to convicts who reoffend, cycling in and ...Read more

Just because an ideology has failed repeatedly doesn’t mean it won’t attract new adherents. Witness what’s happening in New York.

On Sunday, New York governor Kathy Hochul penned a New York Times op-ed endorsing Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He hasn’t been shy about ...Read more

Imagine it is 2028. A start-up in St. Louis trains an AI model that can spot pancreatic cancer six months earlier than the best radiologists, buying patients precious time that medicine has never been able to give them.

But the model never leaves the lab.

Why? Because a well-intentioned, technology-neutral state statute drafted in 2025 ...Read more

What just happened in Washington state is a vivid example of why opposing public employee strikes was once a bipartisan priority.

School was supposed to begin late last month in Vancouver, Washington. But support staff workers in Evergreen Public Schools went on strike instead. The details of the dispute were entirely predictable. The union ...Read more

The nation’s highest court recently let U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resume aggressive immigration stops in Los Angeles based on criteria such as speaking Spanish or gathering at locations where day laborers often congregate — simply put, for being Latino and poor. This was the latest, and one of the most sinister, in a hailstorm...Read more

For more than three years, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been desperately pleading for Western allies to “close the skies” over his nation. The Russians have launched wave after wave of increasingly capable drones, manned bombers and cruise missiles, including the hypersonic Iskander that hit the government’s headquarters in ...Read more

There’s a certain irony in the fact that President Donald Trump announced his silly $15 billion defamation suit against The New York Times scant days after a federal appellate court dismissed a similar claim against Fox News. That lawsuit was filed by Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the Biden administration’s short-lived Disinformation ...Read more

It’s not every day when NATO, arguably the world’s strongest military alliance, is shooting down hostile aircraft in its airspace. Yet that’s exactly what occurred last week after more than a dozen Russian drones breached Poland’s airspace, which forced NATO to scramble jets to defend a member state from a potential threat. Days later, ...Read more

It wasn't the greeting I was expecting from my dad when I stopped by for lunch Wednesday at his Anaheim home.

"¿Quién es Charlie Kirk?"

Papi still has a flip phone, so he hasn't sunk into an endless stream of YouTube and podcasts like some of his friends. His sources of news are Univisión and the top-of-the-hour bulletins on Mexican oldies ...Read more

I don’t quite see the endgame in the increasing calls for state and local action to unmask federal immigration officers. Yes, I’m as disturbed as most people by the images of ICE agents, faces covered, loading individuals into their vans — people who might or might not be in the country illegally, especially since we know that many of them...Read more

In 2022, my husband, Rob, and I adopted three sisters from foster care. Shortly before the youngest was born in 2016, their father, Kelvin, was incarcerated for armed robbery.

Foster parents facilitate relationships with birth families, and Kelvin made me nervous. We were told he had gang ties and had been a heavy drug user. Incarceration, ...Read more

In 1913, Congress gave the Federal Reserve a clear and narrow mission: Safeguard the value of our money and support stable employment. More than a century later, the Fed has mutated into a sprawling political empire — so bloated that it spends $7 billion a year and employs almost 24,000 people and still managed to lose $114 billion of taxpayer...Read more

Once again, an assassin’s hate ripped a hole in America’s heartland. Once again, we heard wise heads warning us this one may be the worst – the start of the civil war that finally shreds the democracy that has united our states.

So, shaken once again, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, hero and leader of our right-wing youth, we ...Read more

In his seminal 1950 essay “The Idea of a College,” Robert Maynard Hutchins, then president of the University of Chicago, made the case for the humanizing influence of a liberal arts education in the face of midcentury nuclear terror. “Now at last we shall have to think,” he wrote. “Now we must apply ourselves to the task of creating a ...Read more

As a former Division I football player and Team USA bobsledder who has gone on to become a state lawmaker in Oklahoma, I’ve seen it myself — coaches imposing their religious beliefs on players. This can involve pressuring players to engage in prayer or religious discussion, under threat of being sidelined.

Faith should be a personal choice....Read more

The authors of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution established and explained the complete order of presidential succession, as well as a series of contingency plans to fill any executive vacancies. It was written as a response to the weaknesses found in Article II after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and what was learned about...Read more

The Trump administration’s crackdown on pharmaceutical ads is a welcome step toward lessening Big Pharma’s influence over conversations between patients and their doctors.

Americans are among the few people in the world bombarded with advertisements for medications most of us don’t need — New Zealand is the only other country that ...Read more

Even as its forces prepare to launch a full-scale offensive into Gaza City, several long-standing supporters of Israel — including Australia, Canada, France and the UK — are threatening to recognize a Palestinian state, joining nearly 150 other nations. Israeli leaders have reacted furiously, taking steps to render any such entity unviable. ...Read more