On a cool, bright afternoon in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, in suburban Chicago, roughly 100 to 150 men, women and even a few children gathered along Roosevelt Road for a pop-up peaceful protest marking International Women’s Day. At one of the suburb’s busiest intersections, people lined the sidewalks holding handmade signs and banners as traffic ...Read more

The rapid adoption of weight-loss medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound represents one of the most striking cultural shifts in weight management I’ve witnessed in nearly 30 years of studying and writing about body image.

These medications were developed to treat diabetes and, more recently, approved for weight management for people...Read more

The first images that come to mind when you hear “Admin night” might be of a fun evening out for office support staff, but the trend is significantly less entertaining. As one primer on the practice put it, it’s a “great productivity hack.” Instead of happy hour, friends gather for a night of doing their taxes, answering emails and ...Read more

The federal government seems to be barreling toward a federal election power grab. Trump's State of the Union address called for the Senate to push through the SAVE Act, which has already passed the House, in the name of so-called "election integrity."

And the SAVE Act isn’t the only such bill. Like the SAVE Act, the Make Elections Great ...Read more

An ugly feature of the Republican Party in the MAGA era resurfaced this month in Florida, even though the GOP has long been trying to hide it.

A WhatsApp group chat for Republican students started by the secretary of the Miami-Dade County GOP was recently leaked to the Miami Herald and the conservative website The Floridian. Messages from last ...Read more

In the first weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians were displaced in one of the fastest mass movements of people in recent history. Train stations became shelters. Theaters became aid centers. Borders became waiting rooms for grief. Journalists moved in the opposite direction, toward uncertainty, because without ...Read more

National Nutrition Month drifts in each March like the first warm breeze after winter, inviting us to pause, look at our plates and pose a simple question: What truly nourishes us?

Study after study and expert after expert point to the same answer: Choosing vegan foods is one of the most powerful ways to fine-tune nutrition while protecting ...Read more

The nation’s highly anticipated monthly job reports have turned into the boy who cried wolf.

Ever since the pandemic, these labor market estimates have been wildly inaccurate and required significant revisions. That’s troubling because major decision-makers from Washington to Wall Street no longer have reliable data, and the consequences ...Read more

Alarmed by rising rates of obesity, public health officials have urged Americans for decades to eat better, move more, and make healthier choices. Yet, obesity rates kept rising, peaking at 40 percent of Americans in 2022. The decline since then is clearly linked to something else: a new class of medications known as GLP-1.

The arrival of these...Read more

There was a time when the Democratic Party adhered to the needs of the working class. It advanced public services for the collective good and met corporate greed with rigorous regulation. One such visionary among the Democrats was Frances Perkins, the U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

It was under Perkins’s ...Read more

Not to pile on, but while we’re tallying transgressions against ex-U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was fired by President Donald Trump last week, we should not forget the often-overlooked death of another American citizen who was killed by an ICE agent under her watch.

Every time news articles or commentators mention the ...Read more

The polls make it obvious: Americans are dissatisfied with their leaders. That sense of grievance applies to presidents, of course, as both Donald Trump and predecessor Joe Biden have chalked up dismally low approval ratings. But the frustrations go well beyond those two supposed leaders of the free world.

Across public service, business, ...Read more

There’s never been a film like “Sinners,” an actual fact even if it wins absolutely nothing Sunday night at the Oscars, because its 16 nominations have already established that there’s never been a film like “Sinners.”

Whether it wins a record-breaking 12 Academy Awards and launches into our cultural history as the most decorated ...Read more

Across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is acquiring industrial warehouses to be converted into detention facilities for people swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. ICE has bought at least seven facilities so far, some of which are projected to hold thousands of people. One warehouse in an Arizona town ...Read more

In his State of the Union address on Feb. 24 — how long ago that seems — the president claimed that the problem of “affordability” was solved. He spoke too soon. Even before the strikes on Iran drove the price of oil sharply higher, concern about inflation was mounting. A prolonged conflict in the Middle East would be sure to make things...Read more

More than a week after the U.S. and Israel launched punishing airstrikes against Iran, neither side appears ready to pause hostilities. The Islamic Republic will surely pay the bigger price for its intransigence. But that doesn’t mean the U.S. can ignore the long-term costs of fighting without a realistic endgame in mind.

Despite claiming to ...Read more

The late writer and satirist P.J. O’Rourke once famously noted, “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” He should have apologized to teenage boys.

In 2011, President Barack Obama signed the GPRA Modernization Act, bipartisan legislation intended to improve government accountability and ...Read more

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will draw a dangerous conclusion from the U.S. and Israel’s strikes on Iran: Nuclear weapons are the ultimate guarantor of regime survival.

Pyongyang has condemned the operation that killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, calling the attacks shameless and an illegal act of aggression. President Donald ...Read more

This weekend, the sun shone and a warm breeze brought a sense of hope after a long winter. Birds chirped and neighbors emerged from hibernation, exchanging greetings after months indoors. Children took to the streets on their bikes, and those of us with kids relished the laughter that comes when the weather finally turns.

For families in Iran,...Read more

For as long as I’ve worked in democracy reform, I’ve watched people use non‑partisan and non‑biased as if they meant the same thing. They don’t.

This confusion has distorted how Americans judge the credibility of the democracy reform movement, journalists, and even one another. We have created an impossible expectation that anyone ...Read more