Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new Make America Healthy Again report offers a road to wellness for the nation’s children paved not with the gold-standard science he promised, but with pyrite.

The report, created by a MAHA commission that includes all of President Donald Trump’s cabinet members, mixes nuggets of truth— like the...Read more

The roughly $100 million SpaceX Starship rocket that blew up last week coincided with Elon Musk’s costly flameout overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.

SpaceX, one of Musk’s companies that has benefited from at least $38 billion in corporate welfare from the federal government, termed the failed rocket mission a “rapid ...Read more

The latest cease-fire proposal that seeks to stop the fighting between Israel and Hamas is in jeopardy. The reason shouldn’t be a surprise: The terror group refuses to give up its murderous efforts to drive the Jewish state into the sea.

The White House over the weekend offered a new plan to end the hostilities, at least temporarily. But ...Read more

The Egyptian national accused of using a homemade flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to terrorize a group of Israeli hostage supporters in Colorado was in the U.S. illegally.

It’s exactly what the Trump administration is fighting against: An antisemite in our land illegally.

Yet, our attorney general in Massachusetts, Andrea Campbell, puts ...Read more

One of the most striking patterns in the aftermath of many urban fires is how much unburned green vegetation remains amid the wreckage of burned neighborhoods.

In some cases, a row of shrubs may be all that separates a surviving house from one that burned just a few feet away.

As scientists who study how vegetation ignites and burns, we aren�...Read more

Serious followers of healthcare policy in the U.S. didn't expect much good to emerge from its takeover by President Donald Trump and his secretary of Health and Human Services, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

But the agency and its leadership managed to live down to the worst expectations May 27, when HHS released a 73-page "...Read more

The Trump administration is planning to eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of HIV Prevention. The collapse of HIV prevention will mean 143,000 additional people in the United States will acquire HIV in the next five years. We are on the cusp of a public health crisis.

The most recent attack on the reproductive...Read more

He was not a philosopher MAGA would read, but he was also not a philosopher mainstream liberals would read. And not just because that would mean admitting they didn't know as much as they thought and needed help in thinking more deeply — a fact about ourselves, to be fair, most of us don't want to accept — but because he wouldn't come down ...Read more

Louisiana District Attorneys Association (LDAA), a special interest lobbying group, stands in the way of justice in Louisiana. On May 21, the LDAA successfully blocked a legislative pathway for hundreds of people to receive fair constitutional trials. Louisiana is the only state in the United States of America where people are serving sentences ...Read more

When I was a kid, there was a commercial for the brokerage firm EF Hutton with the iconic line: “When EF Hutton talks, people listen.” The entire group of people in the commercial would go silent, and heads would turn. Everyone knew that what was about to be said was important.

But when homeless people talk? People cross the street. They ...Read more

The roads leaving California are filled with people driven out by good intentions.

Recent population numbers show the Las Vegas Valley continues to grow rapidly. From the summer of 2020 to the summer of 2024, the region’s population jumped by 120,000 people, a 5.4 percent increase. The growth rate nationally was 2.6%.

That increase is driven...Read more

San Francisco announced and then swiftly reversed a new “grading for equity” initiative last week. The rapid reversal is a sign of a resurgent moderate wing of urban politics — and of a growing anxiety among Democrats that they are losing their traditional status as the party the public trusts on education.

There are many dimensions to ...Read more

Seattle and Boeing were together for decades until Chicago came along. But after the company moved its headquarters from a cloudy city to a windy one, it struggled.

Was it us? The deep-dish pizza and Italian beef? The ongoing wait for another Super Bowl title?

As this iconic aerospace giant tries to regain altitude after yet another turbulent ...Read more

President Donald Trump is threatening to strip Harvard of $3 billion in critical research dollars and redirect the money to trade schools unless the university complies with his executive orders dealing with campus policies and practices.

It’s a bully tactic that puts at risk both scientific progress and free speech, and one the president ...Read more

There’s an old Hollywood joke where a screenwriter goes to pitch a romantic comedy, and the producer listens in silence, then exclaims, “Sounds great! Throw in a couple of car chases, and you’ve got a movie!” The joke has endless variants: the screenwriter is pitching a zombie thriller, or a period biopic — whatever the writer pitches,...Read more

In 1957, the United States had its “Sputnik moment.”

As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response was a massive prioritization of science, technology, engineering, and math—or what became known as “STEM” education.

Today, America needs another ...Read more

On a recent morning inside San Quentin prison, Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman and more than a dozen other prosecutors crowded into a high-ceilinged meeting hall surrounded by killers, rapists and other serious offenders.

Name the crime, one of these guys has probably done it.

"It's not every day that you're in a room of 100 ...Read more

Retired NBA center Jason Collins, the first out gay man to play in one of the four major North American leagues, is finally married. His ceremony was in late May, a few yards away from the Lake Austin shore in Texas.

He and film producer Brunson Green have basically been together since Collins made history back in 2014. However, now that the ...Read more

Anti-Trump resistance has sunk to a new low.

An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency is accused of attempting to share classified material with a foreign government out of frustration with President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said last week.

As Politico reported, Nathan Vilas Laatsch, who worked in IT for the military ...Read more

Americans still feel betrayed by Democrats’ refusal to hold a primary when their nominee was clearly in declining health. Yet it would be a mistake to attribute the party’s current political irrelevance and obscurity to one problematic election.

The only cure is a full-throated and wholehearted confession, and it’s a prerequisite ...Read more