These days, it can feel like Americans across the political divide cannot agree on much of anything.

But there is encouraging news: When it comes to the economic foundations of human progress and flourishing, we are not as divided as we might think.

Political polarization has become a defining feature of American life. More and more people are...Read more

Growing up in California in the 1990s, I remember noticing gas prices along the drive to school. Any time the signs showed more than a dollar a gallon, we would hear the late great Bob Edwards on my parents’ car radio, interviewing energy experts on NPR’s “Morning Edition” about why costs were so high and when they’d come back down.

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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the $164.7 billion in tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was unlawful. In a constitutional system governed by judicial supremacy, such a decision should have marked the end of the matter. Instead, it has triggered a historic act of executive defiance.

Despite the ...Read more

Few will mourn the demise of Iran’s supreme leader or other senior Iranian security officials who terrorized the Iranian people and destabilized countries across the region.

However, it is noteworthy that, save Israel, none of the countries in the region publicly supported military action against Iran. They understood that while Ayatollah ...Read more

New York Times-verified images from a scene in southern Iran are horrific. A severed arm of a child lying in the rubble. Backpacks covered in ashes. The dead in body bags. Video of rescue workers digging through the remains of what had been a modest, two-story school near a military installation in southern Iran.

Please stop for a moment and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a major conflict with Iran is almost certainly his most consequential presidential decision to date, and may be the most important action of the U.S. government since former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War.

Yet while that conflict was preceded by several months of (often misleading or ...Read more

“One Battle After Another” may be the odds-on Oscar favorite, but another nominee, for Best International Feature Film, says more about a society perpetually stressed by militarism. “It Was Just an Accident” comes from Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who channels his two terms in Tehran’s notoriously evil Evin prison into a plot about a...Read more

I love coaching basketball. Being around young people, seeing their potential and helping them become the best versions of themselves is incredibly gratifying. But the job also offers a glimpse into how fragile it can all be. One injury, one bad break, a change in circumstances can shift everything for a player in a single moment.

Life is the ...Read more

The ongoing war against Iran has raised a number of important issues: the ability of air power alone to achieve regime change, the ethics and effectiveness of targeting Iran’s leaders, the question of how much damage the war will cause in the region, and what its effects will be around the globe.

But largely overlooked has been a historic ...Read more

Absent a “real” strategy in his aggressive foreign policy, President Donald Trump is nonetheless revealing an emergent style or pattern. From Iran, which he is currently pounding, to Venezuela and perhaps Cuba and other countries, he’s not interested in building democracies, but in erecting puppet states.

“What we did in Venezuela, I ...Read more

When wildfire risk spikes in Southern California, the lights often go out before the flames arrive. Public safety power shutoffs have become a grim ritual: Utilities cut electricity to prevent sparking fires, leaving families without refrigeration, medical devices, internet access or a way to cool their homes during heat waves. For many in Los ...Read more

Can anyone reading this editorial right now explain, clearly and succinctly, why the U.S. is currently engaged in an open-ended military operation against the Islamic Republic of Iran?

If you said yes, congratulations — you’re doing better than the Trump administration. President Donald Trump and his advisers have offered nothing but ...Read more

On Jan. 28, the Trump administration’s Department of Education Office for Civil Rights found that San José State University violated Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments when it allowed a transgender athlete to compete in women’s sports.

Further, the Department of Education made several demands, including that the university adopt ...Read more

As a veterinarian whose life purpose is to protect animals from harm and to treat those who need help, it pains me to know that in the coming days, dogs will suffer—and some will likely die—on the Iditarod trail.

Every March, Iditarod mushers make hundreds of dogs run up to 100 miles per day in freezing temperatures on icy trails and ...Read more

We’re a society obsessed with kids — how best to educate them, when to introduce technology into their lives, how they eat, sleep and dress. Many of our elected officials are encouraging us to have more of them.

We must also be willing to confront the violence that some of Illinois’ youngest children face.

A data-driven analysis from ...Read more

If only the fallout from California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s destructive progressive policies were limited to California.

Newsom is the latest in a long line of Golden State politicians who’ve been overtly hostile to fossil fuels. In 2022, his office applauded a plan by the California Air Resources Board to cut oil usage by 94 percent by 2045. ...Read more

In response to U.S. and Israeli strikes, at least six American service members have been killed and several more seriously wounded in Iranian retaliatory attacks. Missiles and drones have struck U.S. installations in Bahrain and Kuwait, as well as civilian targets elsewhere in the Gulf. The central question surrounding American policy remains ...Read more