America’s drug policy is broken. For decades, we’ve focused primarily on the supply side—interdicting smugglers, prosecuting dealers, and escalating penalties while neglecting the demand side. Individuals who use drugs, more often than not, do so out of desperation, trauma, or addiction. This imbalance has cost lives, strained law ...Read more

The longest government shutdown in history is over following Sunday’s “Senate surrender,” as described by U.S. Rep. Marilyn Strickland, D-Tacoma. Seven Democrats and one independent voted with Republicans to advance the Senate’s short-term funding bill. The Tacoma Democrat piled onto a heap of intraparty condemnation, saying those ...Read more

Twenty-two years ago, the devils came on horseback. Now they come on pickup trucks mounted with machine guns, funded by gold and assisted by drones. Now, the devils fight against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) rather than for it, and they’re doing so with more efficient tools. But if you’re a civilian in Darfur, the outcome is the same: ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — So far, gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra has escaped the bright spotlight focused on Gov. Gavin Newsom in the money pilfering scandal involving their former top aides. But that could change.

It seems only a matter of time before one of Becerra's campaign rivals seizes the federal fraud case for attack fodder. I can...Read more

Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson has gotten slammed by more than a few of his fellow Democrats for displaying cold feet at the prospect of congressional redistricting in the state.

Critics include his Old Dominion counterpart, Virginia Senate President L. Louise Lucas, who recently accused him of echoing “MAGA talking points” after ...Read more

On Truth Social earlier this month President Donald Trump ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “prepare for possible action” to protect Christians in Nigeria. (Hegseth’s social-mediated response: “Yes sir”). The order appears to have been prompted at least in part by a statement from Sen. Ted Cruz last month accusing the Nigerian ...Read more

No good reason exists to secretly photograph millions of Americans. But under the paper-thin pretense of identifying non-citizens, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has launched a chilling new surveillance tool to do that.

The Mobile Fortify biometric cell phone app marks a behind-the-scenes escalation in DHS’ brutal immigrant roundups...Read more

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” warned George Orwell, the famous British author of "1984." He was referring to politicians’ dangerous tendency to ignore facts that challenge their preferences or ingrained beliefs.

While that quote could refer to many aspects of President Donald Trump’s domestic ...Read more

As classrooms reopened this fall, many teachers returned to school with both new lesson plans and new boundaries — political ones.

According to EdChoice and Morning Consult’s most recent educator survey, which polled teachers at the end of September, about 40% of America’s teachers say they’ve had to change what they teach or discuss in...Read more

Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.

The recent demolition of the White House’s East Wing �...Read more

You might find the following question on a first-grade math test: “Fill in the box: 7+2=[blank]+6.” But what you wouldn’t expect is for 25 percent of incoming freshman at a highly ranked university to get the question wrong. But they did.

A report released this month by the University of California, San Diego, lays bare the fraud that ...Read more

Under the guise of reducing homelessness, President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” removes protections against involuntary institutionalization. This threatens to undo decades of progress toward creating inclusive lives for people with disabilities.

In an interview with the Daily...Read more

This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we hadn’t been asked about before: spelling. In fact, over the summer, he had literally asked me: “What is spelling?”

Most ...Read more

America’s enemies are growing bolder and more sophisticated in cyberspace. To fend them off, the government must stop unilaterally disarming.

Two recent reports underscore the danger. In mid-October, Seattle-based cybersecurity firm F5 Inc. acknowledged a “catastrophic” breach of its systems, which may have allowed Chinese hackers to ...Read more

She’s a little bit country; he’s a little bit rock ‘n’ roll.

And me? I’m a little bit stunned. Two politicians have emerged, against all odds, to surprise and impress us this year: Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

You’d be hard-pressed to find two Americans less similar — politically, culturally...Read more

As the Democrat-imposed government shutdown sputters to a close, the Federal Aviation Administration says that airline traffic will take weeks to get back to normal. That will add to the millions of travelers who have already had their flights delayed, disrupted and even derailed altogether. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Even the socialists...Read more

The strangest thing about the recent shutdown fight in Congress is that a quarrel ostensibly about health-care subsidies failed to stir any real debate about health-care reform.

Washington prefers not to open that can of worms. The fact remains, this system’s defects weren’t just the proximate cause of the past month’s paralysis. They ...Read more

For every man older than 110, there are nine women. Before she died in August at age 117, supercentenarian Maria Branyas — the world’s oldest verified person — credited her bonus years not to any high-tech interventions but to eating lots of plain yogurt.

Her successor is also a woman, 116-year-old Ethel Catherman. And the record for ...Read more

I remember the knot in my stomach when I had to tell one of my best workers at Miramar Group that we might not be able to keep offering affordable health coverage. He’s been with me for years — reliable, hardworking, with two kids. The look on his face said everything: Without decent health insurance, his family is one accident away from ...Read more

Seven out of the nine universities that the Trump administration invited to offer feedback on the so-called Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education have politely declined to sign on. At its core, the compact offers preferential treatment in exchange for institutional support for President Donald Trump’s political agenda. This ...Read more