Schools have generally been working hard to meet the special educational needs of an array of students — those with learning disabilities, those learning English, those with behavioral issues and those whose households struggle with poverty. But they have widely neglected one major group of students with special needs: the academically gifted....Read more

With our national elections the first week and Thanksgiving the last week, November is a banner month for Americans. On Nov. 5 we voted, electing Donald J. Trump to become our 47th president and arguably the most powerful person on the planet. Now we look forward to Thanksgiving.

Somewhere in each of our past Thanksgivings, there likely came a ...Read more

In a tweet he posted shortly before the election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took arms against the Food and Drug Administration and its scientists.

"The FDA's war on public health is about to end," he wrote, decrying the agency's "aggressive suppression" of such worthless anti-COVID nostrums as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

"If you work for ...Read more

Donald Trump talked a lot about inflation, immigration and crime during his two-year campaign for the presidency. Indeed, his third bid for the White House was predicated on those three issues. But Trump wasn’t shy on another issue that has far less resonance with the American electorate generally: peace in the Middle East. On occasions, Trump...Read more

Donald Trump recently said he would protect women, whether they like it or not. What did he mean by this? What is implied by this? It is an important statement and, unfortunately, tells us a great deal about why Trump won the election and his priorities as president.

For the last several years, leading Republicans have warned that there is a ...Read more

Every knowledgeable observer of the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel drama knows that the politics of the presidential election had warped what should have been a simple decision: to approve the best available offer for the legacy American steel company, and the only one likely to keep steel manufacturing in the Steel City.

With the election and all its...Read more

The usual rule of thumb is that stories sell; data doesn’t. But new research suggests that’s not necessarily true. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that numbers are dull and uninspiring, numbers dominate our decisions — on what to buy, whom to hire and where to donate money.

A paper published last month in the journal PNAS shows that ...Read more

A week before Halloween, during a virtual town hall event, Elon Musk told the audience "we have to reduce spending to live within our means." He said this would involve "some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity." Less than two weeks later, the world's 10 richest people got $64 billion richer, with Musk collecting more ...Read more

During Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, he boasted of plans to overhaul the federal government, promising to gut or even eliminate entire federal departments. One federal agency clearly in danger of being defanged is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Established in the wake of the financial crisis to protect Americans against ...Read more

During his successful campaign for office, President-elect Donald Trump shrugged off Democratic attacks about the Heritage Foundation’s polarizing “Project 2025,” a roadmap of policy goals for a second term authored by more than 100 members of his first administration.

While there are plenty of worrisome ideas in that manifesto, one in ...Read more

The holiday season is fast approaching. Many already have their tickets in hand, or are starting to look for flights. Many people who travel during the holidays are once or twice-a-year air travelers, typically less experienced with the system and airport security than frequent business travelers. This means they may not be as familiar with ...Read more

We don’t yet know the precise numbers, but it appears once again that four out of five white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election.

Evangelical support was by no means decisive; a similar percentage voted for Trump when he lost in 2020. But when a supermajority of a group that comprises approximately 25% of the ...Read more

As Joe Biden’s presidency enters its last weeks, officials are rushing “to preserve at least some of the outgoing president’s legacy,” The Associated Press reports, before Donald Trump takes over in January.

“Let’s make every day count,” President Joe Biden said after the election.

That means spend, spend and spend some more, ...Read more

Presidents deserve wide latitude in selecting members of their Cabinet. But, at the same time, the Senate must take its advice and consent role seriously if the balance of power is to be preserved.

Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with his selections to run various government agencies. Yet many of his picks for top jobs — Susie Wiles as chief...Read more

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has a blunt message for fellow Democrats as they wail and wonder how they'll make their way back from the political wilderness.

It's going to take time. And lots of work.

"This is not like, 'Oh, here's one weird trick ... Use this word, not that word,' " said the 36-year-old congresswoman, fresh off reelection in a ...Read more

The U.S. Senate has little time left in this tumultuous year but it must make sure to pass the PRESS Act.

Dubbed "Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act," the broadly supported bill would ensure federal protection for journalists. It would prevent authorities from abusing subpoena powers and protect reporters from being forced to ...Read more

Recently, a group of comic book writers and authors published “Stop Project 2025: A Comics Guide to the Republican Plan to End Democracy.” Free to the public, the guide aims to succinctly explain the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page blueprint for Donald Trump to overhaul the executive branch of government when he is sworn into office for the...Read more

We are a few weeks removed from the election, and Democrats do not appear to be any closer to truly understanding why they lost so much ground to Donald Trump with so many demographics. It’s clear to me that comprehending what happened and why will have to come from somewhere other than political operatives within the party, cable news media ...Read more

Is an inexperienced manager with no history running anything, no less the biggest single federal government agency, the right person to be in charge of the Pentagon? Say hello to Donald Trump’s nomination of Pete Hegseth to be secretary of defense.

Senators — majority Republicans, newly led by John Thune of South Dakota, and minority ...Read more

When I was offered an internship at a sanctuary for farmed animals some years ago, I jumped at the chance. I’ve always had an affinity for animals, and I imagined myself cuddling cows and brushing goats— and I did get to do those things. But what took me most by surprise was meeting the turkeys. I had given little thought to these birds, ...Read more