Much of New York is currently under a state of emergency because of a blistering heat wave. We are about to break a 125-year record. State and local authorities have clear recommendations for staying safe: Stay hydrated. Avoid strenuous outdoor activities. Find places to cool down.

Unfortunately, for many workers, it’s not so simple. Think ...Read more

I’m a native Oregonian. The central part of the state has been my home for more than a quarter century. It’s where I expected to build my life.

It’s also where I fled after a harrowing marriage with a husband who threatened my life. With no money, no job and no housing, I found safety and sanctuary deep in the woods of the Deschutes ...Read more

Weather isn’t climate, and a heat wave isn’t proof of human-induced global warming any more than a snowball disproves it. At the same time, nothing quite focuses the mind on the causes and effects of a hotter planet than Mother Nature covering half of the United States with a giant pot lid, turning up the burner and letting it boil for a ...Read more

Now that the 12-Day War of Israel’s pinpoint airstrikes on Iranian military and nuclear targets and Iran’s blind ballistic missiles slamming into Israeli apartment buildings and hospitals has ended by the Trump Truce (with some salty language from the president) the ultimate goal must continue: To completely deny Iran from having atomic arms...Read more

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” now before the Senate takes the current preoccupation with making every governmental relationship transactional to an immoral extreme. It puts a $1,000 price tag on the right to seek asylum — the first time the United States would require someone to pay for this human right.

The Universal Declaration of ...Read more

As a professor at UC Santa Barbara, I research the effects of and solutions to ocean pollution, including oil seeps, spills and offshore DDT. I began my career by investigating the interaction of bacteria and hydrocarbon gases in the ocean, looking at the unusual propensity of microbes to consume gases that bubbled in from beneath the ocean ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear capability represents a turning point in modern foreign policy — one that will keep the United States, the American people, and Americans abroad safe for years. It sends a signal to our adversaries: America will not tolerate the threat of nuclear-armed rogue states.

The name of my...Read more

Congressional approval for military engagement still matters. Here’s why.

Last Saturday’s strike against Iran was perhaps the most consequential U.S. military action in the Middle East of the past decade. As it stands, early indications suggest the strikes significantly eroded but did not eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, and a tenuous ...Read more

It's easier to make the case that President Donald Trump has earned consideration for the Nobel Peace Prize than it will be to convince those who award the honor to actually give it to him.

What Trump has done over the past week in the name of peace is masterful. The sword of nuclear Armageddon Iran has held over the world for decades is gone. ...Read more

President Donald Trump used to quip that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose support. The same might be said of the royal palace in The Hague, where the U.S. president arrived to a hero’s welcome despite having relentlessly berated, humiliated and questioned the utility of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and European ...Read more

For decades, politicians in both parties have operated on the belief that Social Security is the third rail of American politics, dangerous if not fatal to touch.

Since the 1990s, Medicare has seemed equally inviolate. The budget bill Republicans are hoping to bring to the Senate floor this week will test whether Medicaid and the Affordable ...Read more

Critics have lambasted President Donald Trump’s tough-love approach to Europe, but the president secured a major victory this week when NATO members agreed to devote more resources to their own defense.

The turnabout is long overdue.

During his first term, Trump blasted members of the alliance for relying too much on the contributions of the...Read more

Following the U.S. attack on Iran’s primary nuclear facilities at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, Tehran faces nothing but bad options. Militarily, Iran can escalate the conflict by attacking U.S. forces and allies in the region, as it did on Monday with missile attacks on U.S. bases in Qatar and Iraq.

Iran could also close the Strait of Hormuz, ...Read more

On Sunday at approximately 2 a.m. Tehran time, seven B-2 stealth aircraft attacked the Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, strikes enabled as much by the belief that Iran had this coming as the particular technology of the American bombers.

A drawling President Donald Trump put it in stark terms shortly after the operation...Read more

The McCain Institute just returned from a weeklong mission to Ukraine, visiting Bucha, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Kyiv, with a bipartisan delegation of senior staff from the House of Representatives. It was a critical opportunity to see an unvarnished view of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Most Americans have no choice but to rely on various and often ...Read more

“But should old acquaintance be forgot, keep your eye on the grand old flag.” George M. Cohan’s famous verse reminds us that a flag can call a nation back to its core values in times of distress. But, in a nation of immigrants, which flag and what values?

The vivid images of protesters against ICE raids in Los Angeles brandishing the ...Read more

Regardless of their advisability, legality, or ultimate utility in the long sordid history of Middle East conflict, the American military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend gave Donald Trump an opportunity to compliment someone other than himself.

“Congratulations to our great American Warriors,” the president ...Read more

Waymo, a leader in self-driving cars, is seeking permission to roll out its AI-driven taxi in New York City, with a safety driver behind the wheel at all times. Before saying yes, the city must put on several guardrails, from limiting the number of vehicles, to where they can operate, to their safety and technical information.

Fully self-...Read more

President Donald Trump’s coalition has always been a Frankenstein’s monster — stitched together from parts that were never meant to coexist.

Consider the contradictions: fast-food fanatics hanging out with juice-cleanse truthers chanting “Make America Healthy Again” between ivermectin doses, immigration hardliners mixing with business...Read more

About 12 hours before its Sunday morning deadline, this column was overtaken by events.

By Saturday night, I’d written 675 words in support of diplomacy over an attack by the United States on Iran. Arguably, diplomacy worked in 2015 when the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, developed—and Iran agreed to—...Read more