Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski’s appeal to Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump to pause immigration enforcement during the holiday season is the humane thing to do — in a situation that has become increasingly inhumane.

Wenski, who has long been active in immigration issues in Miami, made his pitch Monday on behalf of the Bishops ...Read more

"As far as human nature is concerned, with panic comes irrationality."

This simple statement by Professor Steve Calandrillo and Nolan Anderson has profound implications for public policy. When panic is highest, and demand for reactive policy is greatest, that's exactly when we need our lawmakers to resist the temptation to move fast and ban ...Read more

Of course, not all of the Jeffrey Epstein files were released.

Even some files made available late Friday were quickly removed. Large portions were heavily redacted. Some portions contained boldfaced names, but there was little mention of Donald Trump.

As long as Trump keeps his thumb on the scales at the U.S. Department of Justice, no one ...Read more

The Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C., serves as the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Labor. Its dedicated employees implement and enforce labor laws passed by Congress. It’s not a church, or a synagogue, and its mission is not to serve or praise any religious deity. But if you stopped in at the Cesar Chavez auditorium on Dec....Read more

A decade ago, the Islamic State terrorist group was a household name. Tens of thousands of fighters, many from countries as far afield as Australia and France, traveled to Iraq and Syria to join an organization that sought to establish the world’s first modern-day caliphate.

It was a time when civil war raged in Syria, the Iraqi government ...Read more

“A holiday from the facts.” That’s how the antagonist of "Brave New World" describes the wonder drug soma. The phrase might equally apply to U.S. marijuana policy.

Since California first legalized medicinal cannabis in 1996, the U.S. pot industry has morphed into a $40 billion behemoth. Weed is now legal in 24 states for recreational ...Read more

From U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war to AI developments, 2025 has been full of dramatic twists and turns. One of the most consequential takeaways is to never, ever underestimate China.

At the onset of the year, the world’s second-largest economy was left for dead. Economists were predicting lost decades akin to what Japan ...Read more

Medical experiments on research dogs could be phased out soon — a change that’s based as much on science as ethics. Pressure is coming from within the scientific community as well as from activists, following a string of scandals involving inhumane living conditions. It follows a similar phase-out in the last decade of the use of captive ...Read more

The federal government's monthly releases of economic statistics — especially the inflation rate and growth as tracked by gross domestic product — have long occasioned partisan preening (or denunciation) and for a general public stock-taking of the health of the economy.

Not this month. This time, they're the occasion for doubt and ...Read more

Medicaid is a federal program jointly funded with the states, providing health and long-term care insurance to more than 80 million low-income Americans.

And if you didn’t know all of that, you’re not alone.

The government has spent a fortune over the years de-emphasizing the term “Medicaid,” instead promoting other names that carry ...Read more

The reaction to President Donald Trump’s recent social media post was immediate and telling.

For many, the post was stunning in its cruelty, a line so clearly crossed it demanded condemnation. For others, it was dismissed, defended or waved away as exaggeration, provocation or “just how he talks.” That divide is the story. Because when ...Read more

The states along the Colorado River are proving the truth of the famous adage often attributed to Mark Twain: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.”

At the end of the year, the current agreement governing water in the Colorado River will end. The agreement includes seven states. The four Upper Basin states are Colorado, New ...Read more

Thank goodness for state governments. One of the most underappreciated stories in 2025 was the role states played in checking federal overreach. As the Trump administration barreled through norms, rules and laws, state officials — sometimes from both parties — supplied the friction to slow the administration’s power grab.

Trump swept ...Read more

There are a lot of reasons, some deserved and some not, for Americans’ distrust of their institutions. Lately I have been thinking about one of the more counterintuitive ones: Our schools, governments and even employers are trying too hard to make things fair.

In so doing, they are not only setting themselves up for failure — and eventually...Read more

In medicine’s history, the best technologies didn’t just improve clinical practice. They turned traditional medicine on its head.

For example, advances like CT, MRI, and ultrasound machines did more than merely improve diagnostic accuracy. They diminished the importance of the physical exam and the physicians who excelled at it.

Now, an ...Read more

The year 2025 has been one of the most turbulent years in modern U.S. health care. The headlines were explosive, the rhetoric dramatic, and the controversies nonstop. Yet for all the hoopla and upheaval, the medical care Americans receive now, month in and month out, looks no better than what they experienced on Jan. 1 — but far more expensive...Read more

What are you doing New Year’s Eve? Showing up at a friend’s doorstep to smash a plate? Eating a dozen grapes in sync with the 12 chimes of the clock? Perhaps you’re planning to bang a loaf of bread against the wall and then deep-clean your house before midnight. Or maybe you’re bringing luck, love or peace in the new year by putting on a...Read more

Does the European Union — 27 states, 450 million people, politically fractious even in the best of times — need to expand even more? The answer, in the European way, is a qualified and equivocal yes.

Nine countries are officially in line to join the bloc, and EU officials have recently hinted some may be added by 2030. The European ...Read more

The business of shipping goods around the world has suffered shock after shock since 2000, culminating in the effective closure of the Red Sea and Suez Canal two years ago. Don’t say it too loud, but there’s a good chance the waterway can reopen in 2026, reducing transportation costs and easing the strain on global supply chains.

It's hard ...Read more