As a Christian who smuggled Bibles into my home country of Iran, I became a target of the country’s Islamist regime, which imprisons and sometimes kills those who invite Muslims to convert. After living under house arrest for two years, I fled as a refugee and was ultimately resettled to the United States.

I experienced true religious freedom...Read more

Delta Air Lines says it is rolling out “personalized fares,” which sounds benign and even sweet but is precisely the opposite.

What is really going on is that the massive airline is phasing in artificial intelligence-powered ticket pricing that may offer you a different fare for a particular trip than your neighbor down the street. Delta ...Read more

This summer, millions of people from around the world will visit America’s national parks, eager to marvel at iconic landscapes such as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Old Faithful. These places aren’t just national treasures — they’re global ones. But the growing crowds and aging infrastructure in many parks tell a difficult story...Read more

Washington is a funny place. I don’t think President Donald Trump was thinking about former President Joe Biden with his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). But it certainly seems to poke fun at Biden’s BBB (Build Back Better) plan in name — and exceed it in some of its family priorities.

The Democrats’ BBB was all about supporting ...Read more

When it comes to reporting on the comparative health of nations, there is ample bias in the national and international press about American shortcomings. Some of it is justified — disproportionate numbers of obesity and firearm deaths are usually cited by medical and nonmedical sources, as well as the relatively high infant mortality.

But no ...Read more

The deadly Texas floods have receded, leaving lost and shattered lives. President Donald Trump tells us not to politicize the moment, with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt calling the floods “an act of God,” meaning no one is responsible.

However, because the floods and the climate disasters that follow them make the costs heart-wrenchingly ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war.

Trump has expressed increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalating aggression in the European country. Time and again the president has expressed optimism after speaking with Putin about ...Read more

An Israeli soldier would position his leg against the wall in the narrow corridor to our school, then order us: “Pass under my leg, or no school.”

That was a recurring event for us children during the early 1990s in our Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, the “beach camp.”

It took us some growing up to understand it as systematic ...Read more

Edward Zakrzewski II, 60, has spent nearly half of his life on Death Row, where next Thursday he is to be the ninth person executed in 2025, a modern one-year Florida record.

Only Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the death warrant, knows why he didn’t select one of the 120 other inmates who have been there longer, or why he doesn’t answer the ...Read more

As the world rightly remains focused on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine and the humanitarian abomination that is Gaza, South Korea’s new president is trying to shake up the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, one of the most militarized regions on the planet. Whether he succeeds will depend on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s willingness...Read more

Donald Trump is hardly the first president to pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates or take some other action the White House deems necessary to boost the economy and shield the commander-in-chief from the fallout that comes when voters can’t make ends meet.

President Lyndon B. Johnson did it 60 years ago, summoning William ...Read more

Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement.

Nowhere is this more apparent ...Read more

California has the highest residential electricity rates in the continental United States. The reason is exactly what you’d expect.

In May, residential customers in California paid an average of 35.03 cents per kilowatt-hour. Nevada residents paid 13.32 cents per kWh. In Arizona, it was 15.76 cents per kWh. California’s commercial and ...Read more

The latest national report on students who left college without earning a degree contains some sobering data: Approximately 2.1 million students stopped higher education between January 2022 and July 2023, swelling the “some college-no degree” population to more than 43 million Americans.

What’s contributing to this national crisis is a ...Read more

This hasn’t been a good year for congressional authority. Consider Congress’ craven vote to claw back some $9 billion of funding it had previously allocated for foreign aid and public broadcasting. That quiet move tells you a lot about how institutional power works in Washington — especially given some of the bigger headlines of the last ...Read more

As President Donald Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his leadership. His dedication to streamlining government resulted in changes to the Head Start system that supported its programs’ commitment to ...Read more

Coca-Cola is launching a new product in the U.S. this fall featuring cane sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup, and at least one restaurant chain is planning to offer sugar Coke as soon as next week. This news prompted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to post his reaction online: “MAHA is winning.”

This new ...Read more

In 2020, Susan Collins’ Democratic challenger raised so much money, she couldn’t spend it all. Yet Sara Gideon lost in a blowout. Maine’s moderate Republican senator defeated her 51% to 42%, even as the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, won the state 53% to 44%.

With the 2026 midterm elections drawing near, Collins again looks ...Read more

For 22 months, since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted it’s too soon to discuss Gaza’s future. One can debate the merits of his position (and his motivations). For the sake of Israel’s long-term security, however, the time has come to change course.

Thanks in no small part to the prime ...Read more

The Pentagon got a whopping $150 billion increase in the budget bill passed by Congress and signed by the president July 4. That will push next year’s proposed Pentagon budget to more than $1 trillion. Most of that enormous amount will go to weapons manufacturers.

A new report by the Quincy Institute and the Costs of War Project at Brown ...Read more