Like the needle on a compass, politics is polarized. But there should be a difference between finding your way in rough seas and surviving our nation’s stormy politics.

Bobby LaPin, the owner of a Baltimore-based charter boat company, discovered just how stormy the latter has become. His crime? Simply questioning on social media whether the ...Read more

Here's how one of the well-laid plans of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went blooey.

Earlier this month, Kennedy dismantled the all-important Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and remade it into the spearhead for his anti-vaccination campaigns.

The ...Read more

On June 10, the Northwestern University community received an alarming email from university President Michael Schill and his team. The email stated that “rising costs related to compliance requirements, health care expenses, litigation, labor contracts, employee benefits, and other forces have put an increasing strain on Northwestern’s ...Read more

The nation's federal judges — including appointees of presidents of both parties, Donald Trump's among them — have been the bulwark against Trump's reign of lawlessness on deportations, spending, federal appointments and more. Repeatedly, lower courts have been standing up for the Constitution and federal law, trying to constrain a president...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been getting a lot of attention this week for erecting an ICE deportation camp on an abandoned airstrip in the heart of the Florida Everglades and calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” In a glossy video, he suggests that the flood-prone wetland is perfect for housing detained immigrants in the heat of ...Read more

As I write this, the temperature is climbing past 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the mid-Atlantic states, and 170 million Americans are under warnings about a dangerous combination of intense heat and humidity. Is this latest weather extreme linked to global warming? Of course it is, as has been the case with record-setting floods, extreme hurricanes...Read more

As America braces for another storm season, only the media storms are more predictable than upcoming hurricanes and tornadoes. Often before the dust settles after natural disasters, headlines warn that gusts of wind and funnel clouds are proof the Earth is boiling.

Politicians run to blame carbon emissions while their supporters flood social ...Read more

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