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In the course of three days, six U.S.-based scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Every one of them studied or now works at America's public universities. Five were affiliated with or educated by California's system for higher education.

President Donald Trump's assault on universities, both public and private, targets the engines of American ...Read more

Exactly why are the Democrats trying to save Republicans from a drubbing in the midterms? Their shutdown of the government to stop cuts in health coverage does not work to their political advantage -- or ultimately help those they purport to be protecting.

Republicans running for reelection know that their One Big Beautiful Bill will cause ...Read more

Right before New York's Democratic mayoral primary, political seers declared with enormous confidence that Andrew Cuomo would easily beat Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani. They were wrong.

Now, about a month before the general election where Cuomo is running as an independent, the same blowhards are barking that Mamdani has it all but in ...Read more

The time has come to praise Donald Trump. Let's savor the moment.

The president is right to challenge the tech worker visa known as H-1B. This is a temporary visa that lets American companies hire skilled foreign workers in "specialty occupations."

The visa's fans offer a mirror image, with a twist, of the popular argument that low-skilled ...Read more

On Monday, Donald Trump issued an ignorant warning to pregnant women whose doctors prescribe Tylenol, a brand name for acetaminophen. "Don't take Tylenol. Don't take it," he said. "Fight like hell not to take it." And when in pain, "Tough it out."

The idea that Tylenol use in pregnancy may cause autism has been shot down by researchers ...Read more

"Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents," Donald Trump declared at his 2025 inauguration. Hold that thought.

Trump is now using the immense power of the state to distract from a scandal that could bring him down. That is, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a fiend who sexually ...Read more

The Tesla board has offered to make Elon Musk the planet's first trillionaire if he meets certain milestones in rocketing the automaker to new glory.

Did Musk show true brilliance the first time around? Yes, he did. Tesla's stock price rose 700% in 2020, making it more valuable than Toyota, Volkswagen, General Motors and Ford combined.

But ...Read more

This is not about Charlie Kirk. He was admirable as a debater and as a conservative who welcomed debate. Some of his utterances were reprehensible, but no one should die because of opinions.

This is about the 22-year-old who apparently shot and killed Kirk from a rooftop -- and also the 20-year-old who shot at Donald Trump during a ...Read more

Some offenses are so heinous they can never be wiped from the record-- criminal or moral. There's no normalizing first- or second-degree murder. Not by having done the time with good behavior, not by getting a college degree, not by apologizing. Other crimes don't, in themselves, warrant a life sentence, but put enough serious violations ...Read more

My sister and her guy just returned from Portugal after their second big travel venture of the year. I asked, naturally, "How was it?"

She said, "Awful." They were crammed in Porto alongside a zillion other tourists. A crush of bodies and long lines under a brutal sun. The experience left them with a case of Hodophobia, fear of travel. (Hodos...Read more

It started quietly enough. MAGA Republicans put lunatic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services. He's forced top scientists to leave and slashed research in cancer, autoimmune diseases and other health threats. Thanks to him, getting the updated COVID vaccine is harder for many and confusing for everyone....Read more

President Donald Trump's energy policy is utterly screwed up -- if you assume America's interests, and not pleasing his fossil fuel friends, is the objective.

This came to the fore when trade adviser Peter Navarro hollered at India for buying Russian oil. Navarro called the purchases "opportunistic and deeply corrosive" of efforts to isolate ...Read more

Why do the world's poor make a beeline for New York City? It is now home to over 3 million immigrants, the largest influx coming from the Dominican Republic, China, Jamaica, Mexico, Guyana, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and India. How can these overwhelmingly poor new arrivals stay if no one can afford to live there?

Answer: They crowd into ...Read more

It's with some discomfort that I consider the possibility that Trump's radical immigration agenda will lead to better immigration policies. The discomfort comes from the cruelty involved: the roughing up of good people who've been quietly working, the celebrations of brutal incarceration, the racially tinged rhetoric.

Hope comes in the form ...Read more

In 2008, Madeline "Kara" Neumann, age 11, died of diabetic ketoacidosis in Wisconsin. Her parents treated her symptoms with prayer instead of medical care. The day before she died, Kara could no longer talk while suffering terrible stomach pains. Yet her adults still wouldn't take her to a doctor. A Wisconsin jury convicted the mother of ...Read more

The Democratic Party's low approval ratings have sent a stern message to its members. But what is it? Is it a failure to loudly fight an unpopular president on every matter? Is it anger over the party's previous obsession with boutique causes -- transgender rights, for instance -- while downplaying broad economic concerns? Or is it the lack of...Read more

How nice to have the Sydney Sweeney "great genes" controversy. It is happily of no consequence, which is just what we need for escape from unhinged behavior spilling out of Washington.

Donald Trump's sending nuclear subs toward Russia, a likely distraction from his tangle with Jeffrey Epstein, is something I don't want to think about. Not far...Read more

When Elon Musk and his first wife talked about how many children they would have, Justine reportedly said she wanted one or two. "But if I could afford nannies, I'd like to have four."

Musk reportedly replied: "That's the difference between you and me. I just assume that there will be nannies."

And that's also the difference between the tech...Read more

A dear millennial friend and I once had a fraught conversation. It came back to me upon reading that the demographic most receptive to socialist candidates and their far-left agenda was the urban "downwardly mobile elite."

My friend, the son of hard-working immigrants, possessed an Ivy League degree. He was miffed that a couple he knew ...Read more

Thomas Paine's pamphlet "Common Sense" galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession "a degradation and lessening of ourselves" and "an imposition on posterity."

Were he still with us, Paine might weep at the sight of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. heading the Department of Health and ...Read more