After some 80 years, Gallup’s presidential approval ratings are riding off into the sunset, and the public opinion polling agency is making a huge mistake.

The company confirmed to The Hill that starting this year it would stop publishing approval and favorability ratings of individual political figures, saying in a statement it “reflects ...Read more

The horrifying episode in which Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted millions of sexualized images of real people, including women and children, has a clear lesson: It should be illegal to use anyone’s photograph to create a fake image intended to depict that person.

Last summer, Congress passed the Take It Down Act, which ...Read more

The anti-science, anti-medicine mindset of the nutso Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is killing people by quashing life-saving vaccines.

There is no other explanation why Moderna’s paperwork to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its new mRNA flu vaccine was rejected, citing supposed faults with the study the ...Read more

History was being made in Washington. And once again, you had the perfect seat.

You had the same vantage point savvy news photographers all chose on Wednesday. It was the same spot news camera pros also chose when they snapped another nearly identical historic news photo in the last century: seven guys – top execs of America’s tobacco ...Read more

A growing number of Democratic lawmakers – including several in Massachusetts – are following the Nancy Pelosi school of get-rich-quick schemes, a sure-fire way of seeing your family wealth skyrocket while serving in Congress.

Ayanna Pressley, Elizabeth Warren, Katherine Clark, Ilhan Omar have all become richer – some astonishingly so –...Read more

One month has passed since Iran’s bloody crackdown, and Iranians — inside the country and abroad — have been left among the most defenseless people facing a ruling power, watched over by a world that largely remained a spectator.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iranians have endured waves of brutal repression: the mass political executions of ...Read more

U.S. consumers received good news Friday when the Department of Labor reported that inflation slowed in January. Continued progress on prices will benefit American families and help the GOP blunt Democratic attacks on “affordability.”

Prices rose by 2.4 percent last month when compared with the first month of 2025. That’s an improvement ...Read more

At a House Judiciary hearing on Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi was holding a document labeled "Jayapal Pramila Search History" that included a list of files from the unredacted Epstein archive accessible to lawmakers such as Rep. Pramila Jayapal. D-Wash.

That means over the course of a year Bondi's Department of Justice has made time to ...Read more

A few hours after White House border czar Tom Homan announced the end of the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, a steady stream of mourners gathered on the city’s south side. Their destination was the community-built memorial to Renée Nicole Good, located at the spot where her SUV came to a stop after she was shot in the head by an ...Read more

The federal government recently released new dietary guidelines aimed at “ending the war on protein” and steering Americans toward “real foods” — those with few ingredients and no additives. Seafood plays a starring role. But the fish that health advocates envision appearing on our plates probably won’t be caught in the crystal blue ...Read more

Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We commemorate them in speeches and street names, reassuring ourselves that their struggles belong safely to the past. But history tells a less comforting story.

We tend to celebrate Black moral courage only after it has been stripped of ...Read more

Whatever their views on immigration enforcement, Minnesotans should welcome the announcement by border czar Tom Homan on Feb. 12 that Operation Metro Surge soon will end, and that a significant drawdown of the more than 3,000 agents who had been sent to the state under federal orders is underway.

They should also welcome the vow by Gov. Tim ...Read more

Do you remember what it was like to be bored — like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn’t grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of “Minecraft” to keep me busy; instead, I spent a fair amount of my free time after school crafting the perfect prank call.

Armed with an oversized White or Yellow Pages, a rotary phone and a...Read more

If there’s any chance Nancy Guthrie’s assailant will not be found, it won’t be for lack of awareness. Her disappearance has mobilized extraordinary attention nationwide.

It’s heartbreaking to think the 84-year-old Arizona woman — the mother of Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC’s Today Show — might still be held against her will in ...Read more

Mehmet Oz is not an economist, but he occasionally plays one on TV. Speaking recently at a televised forum on mental health, the medical doctor and administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed an idea for how to boost the U.S. economy: Americans should just work longer. Adding a year of work would generate $3 ...Read more

Billionaires are now Public Enemy No. 1 in America. Majorities of voters, in both parties, think the gap between the rich and poor is a big problem and that the rich have too much power. To be fair, this economy does seem to be making a lot of people anxious and unhappy, but it’s not Elon Musk or Marc Zuckerberg’s fault. If anyone is to ...Read more

In November 2023 and more than 15 billion miles from Earth, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, started sending gibberish back to mission control. The signals received from Voyager are only one ten-quadrillionth of a watt strong, or about one twenty-billionth of the power of a digital watch. But those infinitesimal signals still transmit valuable ...Read more

U.S. schools spent $30 billion on educational technology in 2024, roughly 10 times the amount they spent on textbooks. By one estimate, this sum could double in six years. Yet as children spend more time on school-issued screens, learning is deteriorating. Before spending another dime, school districts should rethink this “edtech” experiment...Read more

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to turn away Moderna’s application for a new flu shot for older Americans is a troubling development in health officials’ piecemeal dismantling of the U.S. vaccine infrastructure.

The biotech firm’s shot had been tested in a huge, late-stage trial of more than 40,000 adults aged 50 and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Carlos Aranibar is a former Downey public works commissioner and remains involved in local Democratic politics. But until a few weeks ago, the son of Bolivian and Mexican immigrants hadn't joined any actions against the immigration raids that have overwhelmed Southern California.

Life always seemed to get in the way. Downey hadn...Read more