President Donald Trump’s administration has signaled its intent to eliminate programs that acknowledge and address racial disparities in health care. It has set out to defund reproductive health services, undermine Medicaid and dismiss public health data that highlights racial inequities.

If these policies continue unchecked, they will ...Read more

Air traffic control is back in the news. On Apr. 28 and again on May 9, communication system breakdowns affecting Newark Liberty International Airport limited the ability of air traffic controllers to guide and manage the dozens of airplanes in the skies above them — for as long as 90 seconds.

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby expressed deep ...Read more

Diplomacy is an art that has often most effectively been practiced behind closed doors. But the 47th president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has changed that. Diplomacy is now practiced in the full glare of the world’s TV cameras and media, leaving very little room to wriggle — but an ocean of opportunity for disaster.

The ...Read more

Striking a blow for deadly disease and against public health, our dangerous Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., flanked by doctors including National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya — handpicked for his vaccine-skeptic approach — decreed that that the COVID vaccine would no longer be recommended for ...Read more

Former President Joe Biden’s metastatic cancer diagnosis brings together two controversial issues: PSA testing for prostate cancer and presidential politics.

To understand what is at stake Americans need basic information about PSA testing, and a frank discussion of the reasoning behind the prostate cancer screening decisions in the former ...Read more

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research.

The new leaders of both the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration have said they plan to reduce their use in federally ...Read more

It pains me to say this, as both an economist and a graduate of Columbia, but: It may be time to break up not only Columbia but also America’s entire system of elite higher education.

America’s large private research universities, such as Columbia and Harvard, have long been crucial to its economic exceptionalism. The symbiotic relationship...Read more

ODESA, Ukraine — When you read this, I will just have arrived at the Pearl of the Black Sea, as this historic, much beloved, multiethnic city was known in the peaceful days before Vladimir Putin tried to break it with missiles and drones.

Since no Ukrainian airports are open, the route took me by air from New York via Bucharest, Romania, to ...Read more

In the 1930s and 1940s, America played a crucial role in keeping academic inquiry alive. By welcoming thousands of researchers fleeing fascism in Europe, it enhanced its national brainpower and fostered breakthroughs of immense value to people everywhere — from the digital computer to the discovery of DNA.

Now it’s in the process of ...Read more

An Ivy League degree has long been central to the Asian Dream — a ticket to success and status. But President Donald Trump’s message to international students is clear: Far fewer of you are welcome. The blunt statement and growing chaos across the university sector has left families wondering if sending their children to America is still ...Read more

One of the most powerful trends in modern politics is the growing separation between red and blue states. Now, the Supreme Court looks poised to widen that chasm.

Over roughly the past decade, virtually all Republican-controlled states have rolled back rights and liberties across a broad front: banning abortion; restricting voting rights; ...Read more

The Department of Justice under the Trump administration is going after a tiny Idaho town you’ve probably never heard of.

The Justice Department filed a religious liberty lawsuit against the town of Troy in Latah County, just outside Moscow, saying that the denial of a permit for Christ Church’s proposed move was unlawful, according to ...Read more

When Chevron’s oil license in Venezuela expired Tuesday, Miami Republicans in Congress and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, another Miamian, notched a big foreign policy win — and offered a bit of much-needed good news for Miami-Dade’s Venezuelan immigrant community.

The victory comes in spite of a push by Richard Grenell, President Donald...Read more

Seattle’s reputation for being clean and green took a little bit of a hit in the latest American Lung Association “State of the Air” report, looking at three years of data.

The city was ranked ninth on the list of 25 worst cities for levels of short-term particle pollution, meaning that we breathed in, for short periods, air that was ...Read more

American universities have long feared that the Chinese government will restrict its country’s students from attending institutions that cross Beijing’s sensitive political lines.

Universities still fear that consequence today, but the most immediate threat is no longer posed by the Chinese government. Now, as the latest punishment meted ...Read more

Tallahassee’s dealership-driven car sales legislation made Tesla a winner in 2023 by allowing it to bypass dealerships and sell cars directly to Floridians, even while banning the practice for others.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier intends to make another automotive startup, Scout Motors, a loser for just thinking about it.

That’s...Read more

President Donald Trump has been forthright and transparent in his desire to enrich himself with his cryptocurrency memecoin profiting off of his high public office. Trump is beyond shame, but this corrupt debasement of the Oval Office is accepted by so many who should know better, including his fellow Republicans.

Unlike the hundreds of other ...Read more