It’s been nearly eight months since avian flu was first detected in U.S. dairy herds, and cases in both cows and humans continue to pile up.

That slow burn of infections through our nation’s livestock, a new vessel for the virus, has never been good for public health. It creates more chances for the H5N1 virus to change in ways that put ...Read more

In choosing South Dakota’s John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their party’s interest to be led by a Donald Trump supporter but not a sycophant. The fate of Trump’s second term hinges in no small part on whether Thune proves to have at least as much fortitude as the man he�...Read more

After spending $118 million of his personal wealth on the campaign to reelect Donald Trump as president, billionaire Elon Musk has been tapped to lead a new Department of Government Efficiency in the new administration with Vivek Ramaswamy, the chief executive officer of a pharmaceutical company and (very) brief Republican presidential candidate...Read more

I didn’t come to my L.A. school’s campus in August to set up my classroom, or spend my last days of summer mapping the upcoming curriculum. Instead, I became one of the record number of teachers not returning to the job.

Teacher turnover, long a problem in K-12 education, has reached a record high since the pandemic hit, with 10% of ...Read more

In the final month of Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, she appeared on several so-called “nontraditional” media shows. Most notably, Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast, centered around women’s issues. She also made rounds on other radio and podcast shows, including with Howard Stern, Charlamagne tha God...Read more

As Western Pennsylvania's population continues to age, and the region's workforce continues to contract, the region will need increasing numbers of caretakers, more than the region can supply.

In recent years, immigrants have emerged as a reliable way to bolster this workforce, but an ongoing National Labor Relations Board case reveals exactly...Read more

In the wake of Democratic voters in cities and suburbs around the country staying home or trending right, resulting in big swings to Donald Trump almost uniformly, analysts and commentators have cast about for answers. We can posit at least one relatively straightforward one: lack of housing.

The motif of voters ignoring everything else that ...Read more

These days it’s hard to escape news stories discussing how climate change is contributing to extreme weather disasters, including the recent U.S. hurricanes. Aid agencies are increasingly worried about the widespread damage.

A growing question as these disasters worsen in a warming world is how to pay for recoveries, particularly in poorer ...Read more

Please stay.

That’s my message to the 115,000 career employees at the U.S. Department of Justice. As a former DOJ employee, my heart breaks for them with the news of President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of Matt Gaetz to be our nation’s next attorney general.

The ranks of the Justice Department include prosecutors and civil attorneys, ...Read more

The newly announced Department of Governmental Efficiency, to be known by the acronym DOGE (get it?) and headed by billionaire Elon Musk and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, is evidence that President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will at least attempt to deregulate the U.S. economy. All memes aside, this could turn out to be a worthwhile ...Read more

It is easy to conclude that the woke revolution met its Waterloo on Nov. 5. The Republicans ran the most unwoke man in America for the presidency and were amply rewarded for it.

A post-election analysis by the polling company Blueprint discovered that the top reason why swing voters eventually supported former President Donald Trump over Vice ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump pledged last month to eliminate “the Double Taxation of overseas Americans.” Never mind the clumsy wording — taxes on U.S. citizens working abroad aren’t excessive so much as excessively complicated — this is one campaign promise that may actually be fulfilled, given the Republican control of both houses of...Read more

If you — like me — were deeply disappointed in the direction this country and our state went on Election Day, then you — like me — have probably felt emotionally drained for the last week or so.

I fell into a fitful sleep in the wee hours of the morning after the election as it looked increasingly clear that former President Donald ...Read more

Democrats are blaming Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris on everything from fake news that immigrants were eating American house pets to Elon Musk’s alleged manipulation of his Starlink satellite network to interfere with voting-machine counts. I have my own theory: Harris made the fatal mistake of abandoning the one thing that even her ...Read more

Get ready to welcome back polio and welcome back measles and other preventable viruses if Donald Trump has his way and makes Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the secretary of Health and Human Services, endangering us all.

Bobby Kennedy is a dangerous crank, a vaccine-denier who is a threat to public health and who should not become the top person in ...Read more

“The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself,” observes the loyal-to-a-fault Macduff in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” “consisting of the soul’s slow agonizing descent.”

That’s why philosophers and preachers have argued against seeking retribution since time immemorial. Judeo-Christian ...Read more

How detrimental will President-elect Donald Trump’s second term be to the rule of law? We got the answer with Wednesday’s announcement of his intent to nominate Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general: worse even than the worst-case scenario we had imagined.

This isn’t just hyperbole from a harsh Trump critic. It’s a sober ...Read more

The only difficulty with winning an election by a large margin, as President-elect Donald Trump did, is accurately reading the message that voters were trying to send you.

Focus on the fundamentals, and you could be the next generational leader. But overreach and aim wrong, and you and your party will be right back out of power.

The message of...Read more

For those whose sense of doomy gloom has them searching for a ray of light, look no further than the amusing lawsuit filed by one George Kersey, arguing “that the political stance of the Republican National Committee is inconsistent with its name.”

Amusing — yet not uninteresting.

The complaint has been dismissed as frivolous, and given...Read more