Joe Biden entered the Oval Office four years ago vowing to make life miserable for America’s traditional energy producers. Four years later, Donald Trump returns to the White House with a markedly different perspective.

The country will be far better served by the latter.

One of Biden’s first acts as president was to sign an executive ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s firing of 18 inspectors general explicitly violates a law passed by Congress to protect these anti-corruption watchdogs from removal by a corrupt president. Believe it or not, though, that’s not the most worrisome thing about Trump’s actions.

The Trump administration wants the firings challenged to get the Supreme...Read more

Benjamin Franklin was wrong, or at least premature, when he wrote in 1789 that nothing is certain in this world "except death and taxes."

Were he writing today, he would have to add to this sacred duo another entry — that it's also certain that the theory that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese lab will persist, despite the absence of any ...Read more

During National School Choice Week (or any week, for that matter), it’s easy to get bogged down in debates over various education policies. We often forget that there are real kids whose lives are incontrovertibly altered by the decisions we make.

I was one of those kids.

My parents homeschooled me from when I was three till I was 13. I didn...Read more

President Donald Trump deserves to begin his second term surrounded by the team he believes can best help him carry out the responsibilities of his office. The U.S. Senate also plays a key role in honoring the wishes of the electorate and allowing Trump to take control of the government.

Senators should act swiftly to confirm the president’s ...Read more

In the months following Donald Trump's election to his second term as president, many who did not support him seemed to go into hibernation. Off went the televisions, cratering postelection ratings for CNN and MSNBC. Social platforms, particularly X, were fled or ignored; political headlines squinted at and passed over.

There were protests, but...Read more

On Friday, top Chicago Public Schools officials announced that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrived at a Southwest Side elementary school. The announcement caused widespread panic. It was many Chicagoans’ worst fears realized — that not even our kids — or our schools — are safe from the president’s promised ...Read more

Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, Gaza has reportedly lost roughly 6% of its population of over 2 million people. An estimated 100,000 Palestinians have left the strip and more than 55,000 are presumed dead. About 90% of residents have been displaced at least once, and nearly 69% of Gaza’s buildings were fully or partially ...Read more

President Donald Trump is a man on a mission. And he’s also in a hurry.

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call his first week in the Oval Office one of the most dizzying in recent memory. The 45th-turned-47th president wasted no time getting down to business, trekking to the White House within hours of his inauguration to sign a stack of ...Read more

We’ve no problem with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement doing its job and deporting violent criminals and those guilty of sex offenses involving minors, among other serious matters.

We’ve no wish for immigration agents to do so in secrecy, either. But here in America, we don’t have show trials nor do we ritualistically lambaste ...Read more

Patients in the United States pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world — on average four times what people in other developed countries pay for the exact same brand-name medications.

What makes the U.S. such an outlier when it comes to the high price of prescription drugs? The uniquely American phenomenon of pharmaceutical ...Read more

Jim Richards doesn’t look like a mad scientist and his plant-based milk made from macadamia nuts tastes delicious. Yet his carefully crafted product is one of many in the grocery store that can fall under the dubious heading of “ultraprocessed.”

Richards calls it “Milkadamia,” and his Rolling Meadows-based company makes the drink by ...Read more

Shortly after assembling America’s leading technology CEOs to pay homage to him at his inauguration, Donald Trump presided over the announcement of Stargate, a huge data infrastructure project from OpenAI and Oracle and backed by SoftBank.

It was unclear that the new president had anything to do with it, and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said ...Read more

The recent Los Angeles wildfires are the most destructive in the region’s history. More than two dozen people have died, and tens of thousands have fled their homes. The damage extends beyond our species too: According to one survey, nearly half of evacuees from a disaster or emergency leave at least one pet behind. Wild animals die or flee ...Read more

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term. It’s a bad amendment as written; the language Andy Ogles proposes reads “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than three times, nor be elected to any additional term after being elected to two ...Read more

After nine months of ham-fisted stabs at power politics, the Chicago Teachers Union’s leadership says a strike is likely. Teachers could walk off the job as early as March.

The irony couldn’t be any thicker, given that teachers would be striking against a city run, for want of a better word, by their handpicked mayor, Brandon Johnson, who ...Read more

Earlier this month, a full moon blocked Mars from view. Historically, some have taken that as a sign for peace as Mars has been the “planet of war and conflict in many cultures, from ancient China to ancient Rome,” according to science writer Rebecca Boyle.

At least then there may be celestial hope for President Donald Trump’s nearly two-...Read more

The Death Penalty Information Center’s recent annual report contained good news for those opposed to capital punishment. The number of new death sentences remained small by historical standards in 2024, at 26 nationwide, as did the number of executions, 25, and the number of people on death row, about 2,250. Public support for the death ...Read more

Last week, Donald Trump was inaugurated. In his second term, just as in his first, he’ll likely spark passionate disagreements about news media: What is “fake news” and what isn’t, which media sources should be trusted and which should be doubted?

We know we have a media distrust problem. Recently it hit an all-time low: The percentage ...Read more

As Donald Trump begins his second term, America’s health care system is in crisis: medical costs are skyrocketing, life expectancy has stagnated, and burnout runs rampant among health care workers.

These problems are likely to become worse now that Trump has handed the job of cutting the federal budget over to Elon Musk. He will lead the ...Read more