For the first time in the group’s 17-year history, the G20 summit in Johannesburg last month was marked by a complete absence of the United States at the negotiating table. The situation was made all the more striking by the fact that the meeting had been held just days before the U.S. government took over the G20’s rotating, yearlong ...Read more

We are starting to see the consequences of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s open disdain for military lawyers. The recent war crime allegation reported by The Washington Post was a long time coming.

Since September, Hegseth has ordered at least 21 strikes on civilian fishing boats in international waters, killing more than 80 people so far in...Read more

A new audit reveals how Democrats shut down Washington in October to preserve a temporary subsidy program that is likely rife with fraud and abuse.

The latest government closure ended Nov. 12 after 43 days, making it the longest in U.S. history. Democrats in the Senate voted a dozen times to keep the doors locked in an effort to pressure ...Read more

Unsustainable government borrowing has already put the economy on course for fiscal breakdown — but don’t discount Washington’s ability to make things worse.

The latest idea from the White House is to use tariff revenue to offer taxpayers a “dividend” of at least $2,000 a person. The administration hasn’t said whether it intends ...Read more

Encouraging people to use performance-enhancing drugs to break world records — the core idea behind the Enhanced Games, aka the “Steroid Olympics” — already gave me pause. Now its billionaire backers say they’ll offer testosterone to ordinary folks, not just athletes, as part of their plan to take their events-slash-telemedicine ...Read more

Costco has become a symbol of American abundance.

A place where you can buy a 10-pound rack of ribs, Christmas lights, a new winter coat, shoes for your kids, a flat-screen TV or those delicious gluten-free macarons. You can get a massive slice of pizza for $1.99. If you’re a hungry high schooler, you can buy the whole pie for about $10.

A ...Read more

It was long overdue and published discreetly, unaccompanied by the usual presidential speechifying so far. And yet America’s new National Security Strategy — the document that in theory will guide foreign policy during the second administration of Donald Trump — speaks volumes about the president’s worldview.

Latin America, already ...Read more

An internal memo written by the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator offers a concerning glimpse into the future of vaccine regulation in the US — and could have profound implications for both access to and the development of vaccines.

Vinay Prasad’s memo, which was leaked to the news media, makes alarming claims about the...Read more

At least President Donald Trump didn't "kill all the lawyers" first, literally following Shakespeare's words in "Henry VI, Part 2" on evading the rule of law. Instead, just a month into his second term in February, he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth simply fired the top lawyers at the Army, Navy and Air Force, known as judge advocates general...Read more

Even before Trump’s actions against DEI, many in the academic community and elsewhere felt for some time that DEI had taken an unintended turn.

What was meant to provide support—in jobs, education, grants, and other ways—to those groups who historically and currently have suffered from discrimination became for others a sign of exclusion ...Read more

Barney the purple dinosaur was my first English teacher. Through songs, make-believe, and games, I learned how to greet people, ask kids if they wanted to play, and talk about the weather, which turned out to be useful for conversation in the United States. I also learned about sharing, respecting others, and finding the fun in learning.

Now, ...Read more

To hear many Democrats explain it, the nation has racked up $37 trillion in debt, not because Congress can’t control spending, but because the taxman doesn’t confiscate enough money from hard-working Americans, particularly those with comfortable incomes.

Perhaps they should take a look at the progressive nirvana we call California.

Nevada...Read more

President Donald Trump wasted no time before turning the right wing's cherished assault on transgender rights into government policy.

On the very day of his inauguration, he issued an executive order titled, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government."

The order purported to "...Read more

Each December, the International Day of Veterinary Medicine honors those who dedicate their lives to caring for animals. Yet right now, a deepening crisis—driven by irresponsible animal acquisition, relentless breeding and skyrocketing costs—is preventing veterinary professionals from helping the animals who need them the most.

Many readers...Read more

Even among the many sobering stories of cruelty and injustice arising from the Trump administration’s obsessive anti-immigration crusade, the story of Mohammad Ali Dadfar stands out.

An Afghanistan native who risked his life to aid America in its war there, Dadfar was living and working legally in the U.S., raising his family and patiently ...Read more

The leader of the free world is having trouble walking and talking. We need to know why.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has struggled to walk a straight line, and not for the first time. He was unable to state which part of his body was medically scanned — or why. He fell asleep in an Oval Office press conference and wandered off at ...Read more

He “could count by twos and tie his shoes.” That’s the opening line in episodes of Franklin, a children’s TV series about an eponymous turtle that goes on to do a lot of learning. The same thing, minus the learning, could be said about Pete Hegseth, who has now adopted Franklin as an improbably martial alter ego in his evolving fantasies...Read more

President Donald Trump is promoting the idea of sending a $2,000 check to most Americans funded by revenues brought by his tariffs on imports.

The scheme has received a frosty reception from Trump’s fellow Republicans in Congress and economists alike, and they are unlikely to happen. If the White House really wants to ease the burden that ...Read more

The Wall Street Journal nailed it last week with a headline that read, “Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine.”

That headline captures why the president is so eager to end Vladimir Putin’s war by sacrificing the Ukrainian victim to the Russian aggressor. And it helps explain why Donald Trump’s negotiators are ...Read more