The U.S. Supreme Court, as one of its members recently noted, has held that judges “are not required to exhibit a naiveté from which ordinary citizens are free.” And yet, that is precisely what its conservative justices just did.

Considering one of Donald Trump’s latest attempts to illegally suppress votes, the court’s Republican-...Read more

Limiting kids’ access to its addictive social media products Facebook and Instagram, Meta cut a worthwhile deal in a lawsuit with 47 states, D.C. and several U.S. territories. No more will children be glued to screens thanks to some needed reforms and Meta will write out at least $12 billion in checks to be doled out over 10 years, including ...Read more

Anyone searching for good news in a report published last week in the BMJ—a prominent British medical journal—might turn to the headline under which the New York Times published the report’s conclusions: “Study’s Alarming Finding: At Least 1 in 4 N.F.L. Players Gets Brain Disease.”

The brain disease is C.T.E., chronic traumatic ...Read more

A U.S. president must work hard to rupture a relationship with a neighboring country that has been America’s closest economic, security, and people-to-people partner for decades.

Leave it to President Donald Trump.

He has just started a new trade war with Canada that will hurt the U.S. economy, batter our auto industry, and undermine ...Read more

After months of negotiations and hang-ups, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a Russian sanctions bill this month prior to leaving town on recess. House Speaker Mike Johnson should now round up the votes and send the legislation to the White House.

The bill was sponsored by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, and Sen. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could have some zany theater this fall: county prosecutors charging federal postmasters with felonies for obeying President Donald Trump’s order to withhold delivery of mail ballots to voters.

Does Trump then federalize the California National Guard to protect his postmasters from local sheriffs bent on ...Read more

Shame on President Donald Trump for skipping the Ground Zero ceremony in NYC marking 25 years since the terror attacks of 9/11/2001.

The so-called champion of law enforcement has decided to spit on the graves of the firefighters and cops who charged toward the burning buildings in Lower Manhattan to save those they could, along with the ...Read more

On his second day of teaching at Wheatley High School in Houston, former food influencer Darius Williams faced a problem that has plagued U.S. classrooms for decades: his students couldn’t read or write on grade level. But he didn’t call a colleague or email a district literacy specialist. Instead, he posted a video.

In the clip, Williams ...Read more

The current national conversation on Watergate offers an important reminder of the slough through corruption and ethical erosion that tested the foundations of American democracy, degraded public faith in government and depleted the credibility of the United States attorney general. It is also a reminder of those who worked assiduously to ...Read more

Having dynamited trade talks with Canada — in part due to the intervention of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — President Donald Trump has now imposed 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, with Canada immediately retaliating. This will be good for no one, especially the auto industry that straddles both countries.

We’re certainly not ...Read more

Ten years ago, I embarked on a year-long exchange to study abroad in France. When I left the United States, I also left my desire to be associated with America. Political shame, American exceptionalism, and my hope to be identified as a global citizen fueled me.

Ten years later, I still wrestle with similar feelings. As I wrote these ...Read more

Every nation and every faith has rituals to bind its wounds, celebrate its victories, or commemorate deliverance. Americans set aside a Thursday in November to give thanks for a crucial harvest and sustain a founding myth of peaceful coexistence. Israelis sound a siren on Yom HaShoah and stand still and silent. Shiite Muslims mark Ashura with ...Read more

Political predictions are notoriously unreliable, but here is one I am willing to stand behind: the elected officials who figure out how to govern across difference will dominate the next decade of American politics. With dysfunction and paralysis having become the status quo in Washington, elected officials who work together to get things done ...Read more

In the popular imagination, there’s only one threat to picturesque mountain landscapes that can compete with the destruction wrought by flood disasters like the torrent that swept through valleys on the Nepalese-Chinese border: dams.

These concrete behemoths replace the occasional catastrophic natural inundation of such regions with one that�...Read more

When government bond prices go down, it usually means one of two things: either the economy is strong, and demand for capital is pushing up interest rates, or inflation and excess borrowing is putting the future at risk.

For a couple of years now, bond prices have mostly gone down, sending interest rates higher. Take it as a warning.

The 10-...Read more

It sometimes feels as though the Trump administration gets its worldview and foreign policy ideas from a Kremlin School of International Relations course taught by Vladimir Putin — though at a CliffsNotes level that fails to consider how those strategies played out.

Take the recent breakdown of U.S. trade talks with Canada. The White House ...Read more

America is exceptionally good at sending members of its military into harm’s way. We are far less good at managing what happens when those men and women come home.

I recently toured the Vista Detention Facility north of San Diego and saw this problem firsthand. Although the facility’s staff is doing commendable work, the fact that so many ...Read more

If a muscle atrophies, our bodies weaken. We can’t walk very far, we can’t lift things.

When your ability to think atrophies, well, that’s arguably a whole lot worse. “Cogito, ergo sum,” or — “I think, therefore I am,” as René Descartes put it.

Thinking, thus, is as elemental as breathing. Universities should create the ...Read more

What if the secret to happiness was … low expectations?

Most residents of rich, Western countries have relatively high earnings, but many also feel they can’t afford a reasonable lifestyle. Americans, for example, are getting richer but also more unhappy. Meanwhile Eastern Europeans, not generally known for their cheery disposition, are ...Read more

Riding in the backseat of a long, black Chevy Caprice Classic in 1983, I heard an unforgettable melody.

A woman’s light and airy soprano harmonized with a man’s velvety baritone.

Sail away with me

To another world

And we rely on each other, ah-ah

From one lover to another, ah-ah

To my 9-year-old ears, Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers' ...Read more