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

The partisan fight to draw maps that determine how Americans are represented has entered a dangerous spiral. Texas is racing ahead with a mid-decade congressional redraw designed to lock in additional seats after President Donald J. Trump called upon state lawmakers to find five seats.

California’s leaders responded in kind to offset the ...Read more

Author John Gray coined the metaphor “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” in his 1992 bestselling book as a way to explain the vastly different communication styles men and women typically deploy.

New polling suggests the divide extends to politics as well.

A new NBC News Decision Desk poll found a stark partisan divide between men ...Read more

The cold war between red and blue states is escalating to a dangerous new level. Under the piledriver pressure of President Donald Trump’s bellicose second term, the red and blue blocs are moving from separation to confrontation.

The first stage in this unraveling has been divergence on state policy, particularly around social issues.

From ...Read more

Democrats have to change their ways. Ideally yesterday.

The Democratic Party is the pro-government party, simply speaking, and Republicans the antigovernment party. Democrats want to make the government work for people. Trump-era Republicans might as well wear knock-offs of Melania Trump's old "I really don't care. Do U?" jacket. For three ...Read more

DETROIT -- U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s most radical belief is that parents should get the say in how their kids learn.

That’s part of why she is seeking to return education to the states — to the fullest extent possible without an act of Congress that eliminates the Department of Education altogether — and encouraging them ...Read more

In the theater of American politics, promises are political capital. Most politicians make promises cautiously, knowing that if they fail to fulfill them, they will be held accountable

But President Donald Trump has rewritten the script. He repeatedly offers sweeping vows, yet the results often don't follow; somehow, he escapes the day of ...Read more