Under normal circumstances, the study of health problems after COVID vaccinations posted online on Feb. 25 might not have generated much controversy.

Its principal authors were well-respected scientists at Yale. The study was explicitly preliminary: Its sample size was only 42 people whose claims to have suffered long-term medical problems ...Read more

As if President Donald Trump isn’t busy enough taking a woodchipper to the federal bureaucracy, threatening to wage economic war in North America, putting the screws on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to pressure him into peace talks with Russia and giving impromptu interviews in the Oval Office every other day, he has added another ...Read more

In late February, students at dozens of U.S. high schools participated in the first round of an international competition in economics. The top five American students will travel to historic Olympia, Greece, later this year to compete against students from other countries.

The Economics Olympiad, as the competition is called, is challenging —...Read more

Women's History Month finds us at a critical crossroads. Nearly three-quarters of the world's population faces increasing backlash against women's rights, while technological disruption and economic uncertainty threaten to deepen existing inequalities.

Yet, within this challenging landscape lies an opportunity to radically reimagine our ...Read more

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly mammoths from the age of dinosaurs.

But that project — along with Elon Musk’s obsession with establishing a colony on Mars — makes me wonder: ...Read more

President Donald Trump said in his joint address before Congress last week his administration has ended rules that force automakers to build electric vehicles, an issue that impacts the foreseeable future for Michigan’s automotive industry.

One way to truly make good on that claim would be to eliminate California’s outsized regulatory ...Read more

In February, the House of Representatives narrowly passed a Republican budget resolution, delivering a key victory for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and President Donald Trump — but at what cost?

The 217-215 vote advanced a plan that calls for $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade while extending and expanding the...Read more

By nearly all objective measures, the U.S. education system is not fulfilling its primary duty of ensuring that today’s students are prepared to achieve in the world of tomorrow.

As we all know, modern society is becoming ever more dependent on technology. Hence, if American students are to compete in the job market of the future, they must ...Read more

Though controversial to put it mildly, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its chainsaw-like efforts to eliminate agencies, cut the federal workforce and root out waste, fraud, and abuse have become so attractive in some quarters that state-level DOGEs are being considered in Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, New ...Read more

On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to refrain from buying anything from big corporations that have knuckled under pressure from the Trump administration to cut back or eliminate their programs to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. With some ...Read more

I have been outspoken, including in the Los Angeles Times, about my concern about increasing antisemitism on college campuses. But the solution cannot be to deport those who express messages that President Donald Trump, or anyone else, dislikes. Arresting and seeking to deport a Columbia University student for his speech activities clearly ...Read more

Southwest Airlines used to be a different kind of airline: free bags, grab whichever seat you like, use a coupon for a beer and then sit back and prepare to be entertained by the flight attendants’ comedic in-flight schtick. It also used to be cheaper, at least most of the time, and frequent flyers knew that Southwest always deplaned and ...Read more

Now almost $30 trillion, America’s debt trajectory going forward is unsustainable. The U.S. will require roughly $10 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade just to keep debt growing at the same pace as the economy.

Which is why this year is shaping up to be a watershed moment in long-term fiscal policy. Congress is crafting ...Read more

Five years ago this month, COVID-19 changed the world. The first pandemic in a century altered how Americans saw themselves, each other, work, health care, relationships, government, mortality, and media. It tangled everyone across the globe in webs of fear, conflict, grief, disbelief, estrangement, and gratitude.

It prompted a parallel ...Read more

Gavin Newsom — eyes on the White House, vision firmly fixed on his future — is leaning once more into the self-promotion business.

One might imagine his hands are quite full these days being California governor, what with the state reeling from one of the costliest, most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history. Two months after the ...Read more

Last month, close to 1,000 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration workers, including weather forecasters, were fired. The Trump administration has now told agency leaders to fire another 1,000 people. Along with 300 resignations to date this will approach 20% of its workforce.

The White House’s Department of Government ...Read more

The Trump administration came into office claiming to stand for free speech. Yet the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident who led pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia University, has dealt a serious blow to the First Amendment.

Going back to 1941, the Supreme Court has held that resident noncitizens have ...Read more

Immigrants to the United States holding green cards never expect to encounter agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE.

Green-card holders (there are some 13 million of them) are formally known as lawful permanent residents, or LPRs. Some hold them for decades. They can live, do business and find gainful ...Read more

Ask any elementary school teacher and they’ll tell you they know if their kids have come to school hungry. The question was put to the test during the COVID pandemic, when the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended income rules for the first two years so that all students in grades K-12 could get breakfast and lunch at no cost.

Now, there�...Read more