You’re deploying hateful language! You’re encouraging political violence!

Now, please excuse me while I do the same thing.

Welcome to the new American berserk, to borrow Philip Roth’s memorable phrase. We’re going crazy by denouncing violent rhetoric by others, even as we engage in it ourselves.

Witness President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Compassion for criminals is cruelty for their past and future victims.

Officials in North Carolina recently released a video showing the cold-blooded killing of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian immigrant. The disturbing footage shows Zarutska sitting on a light rail train. She’s absorbed in her phone and appears to be unwinding while wearing her ...Read more

Terrible test scores aren’t inevitable. But maintaining the status quo won’t fix them.

Last week, the National Assessment of Educational Progress released results for eighth-grade science and 12th-grade reading and math. Students took the tests in 2024. These results are called the Nation’s Report Card, and they were abysmal.

In eighth ...Read more

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is a watershed moment for America.

Beyond the horror that a person was assassinated while debating ideas with a campus crowd, the aftermath reveals the rot that’s set in to public discourse and institutions.

According to reports, at least a dozen faculty and staff, from school board officials to classroom ...Read more

The shooting death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday is a tragedy. Whether someone enthusiastically supports Kirk’s views or vehemently opposes them does not matter; this nation cannot endure by resolving its differences with the barrel of a gun.

While the United States has been repeatedly stained...Read more

Before Democrats can go after the hearts and souls of voters, they have to prove they have a heart and soul.

The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk was a missed opportunity for the party to show unanimous compassion for Kirk’s family without blaming President Donald Trump or Republicans for escalating political violence.

Trump hater Seth...Read more

The juxtaposition of a 9/11 anniversary and the shocking assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk should have marked the moment when President Donald Trump finally called on all Americans to reject the political violence that has become characteristic of this country.

Instead, as is his wont, Trump and his acolytes used the incident ...Read more

The First Amendment is in a sorry state, especially on college campuses. A survey of students released last Tuesday from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression shows a steady decline in support for free speech – with a new high of 34% saying that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable in some cases.

These findings ...Read more

As any parent knows, a kid’s energy and enthusiasm often drop exponentially between the end of the school day and early evening. And sometimes, those family dinner conversations that follow become painful rounds of questions followed by one-word answers. “How was school?” “Fine.” “Do you have much homework?” “Yeah.” “Any ...Read more

The cold-blooded murder of the young, conservative activist Charlie Kirk is a tragic reminder of the state of our nation. We must awaken ourselves to the harsh truth that confronts us: While our politics are broken, something much deeper and more profound is happening in America. We face a cultural and human dilemma.

So, let’s tell the truth....Read more

A poll pitting California Gov. Gavin Newsom against President Trump might look like good news for Democrats, but it also underscores how deeply Americans remain trapped in Trump’s shadow.

According to a recent Yahoo/YouGov poll, Newsom would defeat Trump in a head-to-head matchup, with 49% of registered voters choosing Newsom and just 41% ...Read more

If their parents had extra cash, would it help poor children? The intuitive answer is yes — not only can any parent attest to the cost of raising children, researchers can also point to a variety of ways in which poverty leaves a mark. But lately a flurry of news and commentary has been saying that, actually, the answer is no: Cash doesn’t ...Read more

The White House has brandished flamboyant, 12-figure investment pledges from foreign nations as proof its global tariff assault is producing rewards for Americans. Pressure alone, however, won’t transform those promises into factories on the ground.

A sweeping immigration raid on a Korean battery plant in Georgia on Sept. 4 underscores the ...Read more

These are in many ways tough times for young adults in the U.S. The job market is turning against them, in part because employers seem to be shunting some of the work they used to give to new hires to ChatGPT and its ilk.

Housing is impossibly expensive for them in much of the country. Those who aren’t U.S. citizens, or just look as if they ...Read more

Before Iryna Zarutska, there were other victims on Decarlos Brown Jr.’s rap sheet.

The man charged with stabbing the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee to death on a Charlotte train last month had already been arrested at least 14 times in North Carolina for crimes ranging from assault and firearms possession to felony robbery and larceny dating ...Read more

Brazil’s Supreme Court on Thursday found former President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of conspiracies related to his failed 2022 reelection bid. The court found that Bolsonaro tried to instigate a military coup and to poison his opponent, current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro, the former president of Latin America’s largest ...Read more

The killing of Charlie Kirk is a national tragedy.

It is hard to overestimate the enormity of what happened Wednesday on the campus of Utah Valley University, where a civil debate about politics taking place under sunny skies turned into a bloody horror show with what are certain to be lasting national consequences.

The immediate aftermath of ...Read more

There's a scene in the movie "Oppenheimer" in which Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron and head of his own lab at UC Berkeley, reacts angrily when he discovers his friend J. Robert Oppenheimer trying to recruit lab assistants to a communist-linked campus labor union.

It's one of the few scenes in this largely factual film that may ...Read more

The price of eggs has more than doubled in the past eight years, which isn’t great, but at least you can eat eggs. The price of U.S. government subsidies for the fossil-fuel industry has also more than doubled in that time, which is far, far less great. Welfare for an industry that makes billions of dollars in profits and pollutes the climate ...Read more

In early August, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., openly opposed special treatment for the pro-Israel lobby under U.S. election law. Appearing on One America News Network, Greene issued a defiant response to a fundraising email from the American Israel Political Action Committee that called her use of the term “genocide” for the ...Read more