In October, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a ruling mandating the removal of all lead pipes supplying drinking water in the U.S. Whether the rule will survive the incoming Donald Trump administration is an open question — one that could have serious, even life-threatening implications for the more than nine million or so homes that...Read more

Donald Trump’s return to the White House is stoking fears that he could reinstate a failed program launched during his first term that aimed to crack down on Chinese espionage, but ended up becoming more of a witch-hunt. Doing so would not only be destructive to American innovation, but give China an upper-hand in the tech race.

The China ...Read more

If U.S. economic growth is so good, then why does the Fed need to cut interest rates?

That was essentially the question put to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently after a speech in Dallas. It would be more constructive to examine the premise — why is growth so good? — and ask what the Fed and others can do to keep it that way.

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Prominent Democrats spent the run-up to the November election professing their desire to protect “democracy.” Court documents reveal that was a cynical sham.

On Sunday, The Washington Post featured a report on the lengths that Democratic operatives went to keep a potential No Labels third-party candidate off of state presidential ballots. ...Read more

If the Democratic Party wants to win future elections outside of deep blue areas, they might just need to take inspiration from Goodwill Industries and embrace their philosophy of “A hand up, not a handout.”

In the election analysis business, there is a tendency to attribute President-elect Donald Trump’s win to one or two major factors, ...Read more

Money can’t buy happiness or a presidential election. Democratic donors just learned that the hard way.

After a candidate loses a high-profile, competitive race, the blame game begins. There are many places to point the finger when assessing Vice President Kamala Harris’ run.

She entered the race late and only after President Joe Biden ...Read more

I guess if millions of American voters can put a man famous for bragging about sexual assault back into the White House, it's too much to expect his Cabinet appointments to be held to a higher standard.

It seems like an eternity, but it was only seven years ago that the #MeToo movement exploded. Supercharged by revelations about Harvey ...Read more

Recently, a flute maker sent me a new instrument he had developed. As a professional flute soloist with over 20 flutes in my collection, I was excited to try it. But when it arrived, my fingers barely covered the holes. They were large, and set so far apart that the required hand stretch caused pain. When I expressed my disappointment, the maker...Read more

Despite all the talk about Donald Trump being a unique political figure in American history, there's one way in which he has behaved like every other politician on the stump: He's promised not to lay a hand on Social Security.

With more than 67 million Americans collecting stipends now and hundreds of millions more counting on benefits for ...Read more

America held a free and fair election in which the majority’s preference for Donald Trump was clearly registered and will be respected. Unlike 2016, his election is no Electoral College fluke.

If democracy depends solely on majority rule, democracy was on the ballot and it won. At least for now.

The Associated Press notes: “The Republican ...Read more

Donald J. Trump won big on Nov. 5, and so did cryptocurrencies. The crypto kingpins who poured a fortune into his campaign coffers were rewarded with flattering remarks on the campaign trail and even a pledge to create a new U.S. strategic reserve of digital currencies. Prices soared after the election.

In case anyone wondered if crypto would ...Read more

Donald Trump had the right idea about education during his first administration: Judge potential employees by their skills and experience, not their degrees. Open up a world of bright futures to people who don’t have a bachelor’s degree but crave training and work hard.

In fact, aside from starting up Operation Warp Speed to accelerate the ...Read more

One of the first orders of business in 2025 for Congress and the incoming administration will be the extension of President Donald Trump’s signature 2017 tax law, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), most of whose individual provisions are set to expire late next year. There’s one problem: America’s debt trajectory is unsustainable.

Even if ...Read more

Between all the talk of fiscal commissions and efficiency agencies, it seems like the question of the day is how to make the U.S. government operate more proficiently. There is no shortage of ideas on what should be cut and by how much. Before any actions are taken, officials should take a look at a recent research paper published by a set of ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s stunning appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has given way to a slate of nominees for key health agencies that portend worrisome changes in how the US approaches public health.

With the exception of former Florida Representative Dave Weldon, nominated for ...Read more

You may have encountered the term “ bird flu” increasingly online and in the media. It refers to a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A, classified as H5N1. Wild birds carry and transmit this flu, though most do not get sick from it. However, it has been detected in birds and mammals at farms such as poultry and dairy cows and has the ...Read more

For some of us, just reading the title of this piece may be irritating — even maddening. If you’re scared about Trump’s election, being asked to understand the “other side” can seem a distant concern compared to your fears of what might happen during his presidency. If you’re glad Trump won, you may be tempted to say, “We’ve won;...Read more

In rehearsal at Lyric Opera of Chicago for my two-act work, “Blue.” I had gone to bed on election night with a mixed sense of hope and dread and woke up Wednesday morning with a deep sense of grief, betrayal, fear, anger, disbelief and loss.

The efforts that I had taken, and my one vote, combined with those of millions of others, hadn’t ...Read more

Of all the campaign promises and crisis-fixing commitments president-elect Donald Trump assured us he will quickly fulfill, two pledges are in urgent need of each other. Not starting on day one – now!

We’re talking about: (1) the first promise Trump made to us – about finally securing our southern border; and (2) the last commitment Trump...Read more