Boston University has a term for those who make it to 100 years old without showing any outward sign of dementia or any other clinically demonstrable disease: “escapers.”

It’s a reference to how, as one inevitably approaches the limit of the natural human lifespan, morbidity is something to be “escaped.”

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, ...Read more

Americans think the First Amendment protects their speech. It doesn’t — at least not at work for most of us. Just ask the executives, teachers, lawyers and even a Secret Service agent disciplined after posting about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. A single Facebook update or tweet — whether mocking, angry or ...Read more

In the Gilded Age of the millionaire, wealth signified ownership. The titans of old built railroads, monopolized oil, and bought their indulgences in yachts, mansions, and eventually, sports teams. A franchise was the crown jewel: a visible, glamorous token of success.

But that era is over. Today’s billionaires, those who tower, not with ...Read more

On Sept. 22, a group of more than 200 prominent individuals, including 10 Nobel Prize winners, published an open letter calling for urgent action to enact binding international safeguards against dangerous uses of artificial intelligence, or AI.

“AI holds immense potential to advance human wellbeing, yet its current trajectory presents ...Read more

It’s harvest time in the Midwest and farmers are bringing in bumper crops of soybeans, corn and wheat. They should be elated.

But their best customers are shopping elsewhere as a result of a global trade war ignited by President Donald Trump. Punishing tariffs have created what some are calling “Farmaggedon.”

China, once a top ...Read more

With America’s global leadership in scientific innovation facing unprecedented competition, getting high-skilled immigration right should be a top priority in Washington. The first task for the White House is to get out of its own way.

The administration sparked fear and confusion last month by announcing that it would impose a $100,000 fee ...Read more

On my home office wall hangs a framed poster with the word peace in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.

I acquired it in Jerusalem in November 1977 when I was covering Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic visit there, a stunning event that truly changed the Middle East. Once Egypt — then the Arab world’s foremost military power — signed a...Read more

There are many ways to interpret Bari Weiss’ elevation to editor in chief of CBS News — an impressive title that still doesn’t quite capture her influence, considering she’ll report directly to David Ellison, chairman of Paramount and son of the billionaire Oracle co-founder.

One could, of course, be jealous. She’s 41, has no ...Read more

The Trump-corrupted Department of Justice indictment of the president’s declared political enemy, New York Attorney General Tish James, on flimsy bank fraud charges is a joke and the matter should be easily dismissed by an independent federal judge.

Whether this is selective prosecution or malicious prosecution is to be established, but it is...Read more

As a retired admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I was thrilled when Sweden and Finland joined the alliance. My first thought was about the vast coastline the two Nordic states provided, essentially turning the Baltic Sea into a “NATO lake.”

Russia has a sliver of land on the eastern corner...Read more

In the 2024 election, Donald Trump mapped an escape route for Republicans from the greatest long-term challenge facing the party. Less than a year later, that path looks much more precarious.

The core demographic challenge facing the GOP is that the party’s most reliable bloc of voters — White people without a four-year college degree — ...Read more

Donald Trump is famous for his hubristic overstatements, but his characterization of Thursday’s events as a “momentous breakthrough” in the Middle East is supported by the facts. Even if his characterization of the future there as being one of “lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace” still remains to be seen, given that history ...Read more

How are Chinese artificial intelligence developers protecting their most vulnerable users? A string of dystopian headlines in the U.S. about suicide and youth mental health has put mounting pressure on Silicon Valley, but we’re not seeing a similar wave of cases in China. Initial testing suggests that they may be doing something right, ...Read more

President Donald Trump is trying to break evermore rules and laws is his expanding misuse of the National Guard he wants deployed in Democratic cities.

Last week, Oregon Federal Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by Trump himself, was unequivocal: the president could not federalize the Oregon National Guard for duty in Portland to deal with ...Read more

Across the country, cities have taken to cracking down on people who lack housing — not by finding them places to live, but by kicking them out of the places they are seeking shelter. These mass encampment evictions owe in part to a 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, that allowed cities to enforce bans on public ...Read more

As Democrats and Republicans dig in during the latest government shutdown, the Congressional Budget Office released its monthly spending report on Wednesday projecting that the federal budget deficit for fiscal 2025 will run $1.8 trillion.

The good news is that the amount of red ink shrunk by about $8 billion from fiscal 2024. The bad news is ...Read more

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to keep our students engaged and to provide them with learning experiences that will last a lifetime. Teachers help kids make tabletop volcanoes erupt, lead field trips to museums and award prizes for the most books read. Some also consider purchasing small animals such as hamsters, mice, guinea pigs...Read more

The rising unemployment rate among U.S. workers aged 16 to 24 — it hit 10.5% in August, its highest level in a decade not counting the pandemic years — has added to the worry about the crisis of “disconnected youth,” also known as the NEETs: individuals Not Employed, Enrolled or in Training.

In 2024, 12% of 16- to 24-year-olds were NEET...Read more

Mount Vernon is 21 miles from my home. Lately I can almost feel the tremors from the nation's general-turned-first-president spinning in his grave there.

George Washington, who set long-followed precedents by voluntarily giving up first military and then civilian power, and who built the foundation of the nation's wall between its military and ...Read more