Tuesday is election day, and, as usual, the pundits are breathless, the predictions are dubious and the consultants are already counting their retainers. But make no mistake: Off-year elections matter. Tuesday’s results will shape the political landscape for 2026 and beyond.

Let’s start in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom has decided to ...Read more

Born into unimaginable luxury and showered with honors, the man formerly known as His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, Duke of York will henceforth be addressed as plain old Mr. Mountbatten Windsor.

It's a stunning fall. The second, apparently favorite, son of Queen Elizabeth II has not only lost his many titles but also his home. He’s been ...Read more

In its final report of the fiscal year, the U.S. Treasury Department delivered some unfortunate news. The government spent a little over $7 trillion in 2025 and raised just $5.2 trillion in taxes. To cover the gap, it borrowed $1.8 trillion, equivalent to more than a quarter of public spending and 6% of gross domestic product. “Unsustainable�...Read more

Tuesday will mark a profoundly sad anniversary. It will have been one year since the shooting death of Officer Enrique Martínez as he responded to call in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

The 26-year-old Martínez was shot to death allegedly by a man from inside a car using a handgun manipulated with a switch converting it ...Read more

Americans embarking on the annual task of sifting through the health plans offered by their employers to find the one that gives them the most bang for their buck are facing a new reality: many of those options no longer feel affordable. This year, the process isn’t just complex or confusing — it’s painful.

The cost of health insurance ...Read more

Elected officials are finally waking up to the educational harms of mobile phones in public schools. As more districts ban them, the reports are highly encouraging — though hardly surprising, given the positive results we saw in New York City when we removed them from schools nearly 20 years ago.

Yet even as phone bans spread, elected ...Read more

The gubernatorial races next week in Virginia and New Jersey will offer the best measure yet of whether the Democratic Party has begun to reverse its losses among two key groups: prosperous suburbanites and economically strained racial minorities. Both groups shifted enough toward President Donald Trump and the GOP last year to help propel ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Like a teenager armed with their first smartphone, President Donald Trump's masked immigration enforcers love nothing more than to mug for friendly cameras.

They gladly invite pseudo-filmmakers — some federal government workers, others conservative influencers or pro-Trump reporters — to embed during raids so they can ...Read more

“My kid’s getting A’s at Harvard” isn’t much of a flex anymore, thanks to a report from the erstwhile Ivy League institution admitting that roughly 60% of grades given to undergraduates were A’s, up from 40% a decade ago and less than a quarter 20 years ago.

“Current practices are not only failing to perform the key functions of ...Read more

Free speech for me, not for thee.

That’s the oldest trick in the hypocrite’s playbook. And over the past few weeks, Republicans and Democrats have both taken a page from it.

Witness recent events at Rutgers University following the murder of Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who founded Turning Point USA. The group’s Rutgers ...Read more

Only compared with the likes of Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Russell Vought, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Kristi Noem and others in President Donald Trump's Cabinet of incompetents, radicals and flatterers would Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent be the welcome "normie."

That's how Bessent, a pragmatic, seemingly mild-mannered and once-...Read more

Winston Churchill, the towering British statesman who served as prime minister during World War II, was once asked by an American student how to become a successful leader. Churchill’s advice: “Study history, study history. In history, lie all the secrets of statecraft.”

Frank Gavin, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of ...Read more

It’s that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward each year? Academics and scientists, politicians, economists, employers, parents— just about everyone you interact with this week — are probably debating a wide variety of reasons for and against daylight saving time.

The reason is right there in the name...Read more

Americans are reading less, sleeping less and partying less. We have fewer marriages, fewer children and fewer friends than we used to. Our children are doing worse in school.

These are complicated phenomena on some level, but on another level it’s pretty simple: Smartphones, social media and the internet are transforming our lives and our ...Read more

We are a society in desperate need of healing; these days, we cannot even find agreement in diagnosis. Consider the issue of vaccination, which raises the specter of science in conflict with individual values and, particularly in some cases, with faith. Our society has long treated science and faith as competing narratives. What if we instead ...Read more

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, speculation has swirled that he would try for a third term in 2028.

He is not ruling it out, to the terror of his critics. On Monday, in an exchange with reporters during his Asia trip, Trump, referring to the third term idea, said, “I would love to do it. I have my best ...Read more

“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.”

That is the chilling opening line of Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, “A House of Dynamite.” It sets the stage for what follows, and spoiler alert — there’s no Hollywood ending. The cold...Read more

The New York Times recently reported that the Trump administration is “considering a radical overhaul” of the refugee system in the U.S. that would, in the publication’s estimation, “favor White people” by restricting immigration to English speakers, Europeans and White South Africans.

At first glance, this may seem like just another ...Read more

Some college students have learned they won’t have to repay their student loans. Is President Donald Trump’s administration trying to woo young voters with loan “forgiveness” like the last White House?

No. In fact, the Trump administration tried to prevent any student loans from being forced on taxpayers to repay instead of borrowers. ...Read more

To most of us who aren’t federal employees, the government shutdown has, so far, been a distant partisan spat with limited direct impact on real life. That will change this weekend when, barring legislative action, tens of millions of America’s poorest families will start losing access to government food subsidies.

The Supplemental ...Read more