Where are the statesmen when the state is under siege by the current head of state?

I've been mulling that question, hardly for the first time, but on three occasions just in the last few days.

On Monday, the federal holiday celebrating George Washington's birth, former President George W. Bush posted an essay on the first U.S. president as ...Read more

My parents were just children when they were wrested from their homes into tarpaper barracks surrounded by barbed wire. The message: They were not welcome.

On Feb. 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the incarceration of more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent — an entire group of people ...Read more

During the postwar decades, American medical science reached a sort of financial equilibrium: The government would fund basic scientific research with billions of dollars in academic grants, then entrust the subsequent development of health-giving products to private enterprise.

The arrangement hasn't always worked in the public's interest — ...Read more

There’s an old saying that “only the good die young.” Not true, of course, but the sentiment is understandable given the complex twists and turns of any life, including that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights titan and noteworthy presidential candidate, who at age 84 died Tuesday at his home in Chicago.

The Rev. Jackson’s rise ...Read more

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a lot of promises on his way to becoming health secretary. He pledged to Make America Healthy Again, of course, and to restore trust in embattled health agencies. And he said he wouldn’t “take away anybody’s vaccines.”

In his first year in office, he’s already broken most of these promises.

The sweeping, ...Read more

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wouldn’t be a progressive Democrat if she didn’t want to eliminate the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

She made it clear in a Sunday WCVB “On the Record” interview when asked if ICE should be defunded. “Yes,” she answered, adding that the agency has “more funding than all state and...Read more

One year ago, Donald Trump returned to office with four clear priorities: secure the border, lower costs for working-class Americans, restore economic growth and put good-paying American jobs first.

As he prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, measurable results are not just visible, they are undeniable. And the second phase is ...Read more

Imagine if a candidate for, say, the California Assembly appeared at a political event and delivered the following remarks:

"No to kosher meat. No to yarmulkes. No to celebrating Easter. No, no, no."

He, or she, would be roundly — and rightly — criticized for their bigotry and raw prejudice.

Recently, at a candidates forum outside Dallas,...Read more

All too frequently government programs for sympathetic causes are plagued by high levels of fraud.

Consider Minnesota. Thieves systematically ripped off programs to feed children, provide housing and child care, and help children with autism. Federal prosecutors believe the amount stolen could top $9 billion. Prosecutors have already secured ...Read more

Who gets to be “American”? In the United States, it’s become a fiery political question with life-or-death consequences.

On one side is Team MAGA, for whom “America” means the U.S. and “American” signifies a U.S. citizen — in many of their minds, specifically a native-born, white, Christian U.S. citizen. They routinely deny that...Read more

President Donald Trump is the consummate salesman, and his State of the Union address will certainly seek to convince Americans that our republic is in a better place. Despite some improvements, the American people, at our core, know that things still aren’t as rosy as our president would like us to believe.

News that consumer confidence has ...Read more

As the U.S. struggles with how to respond to the violent actions of federal immigration enforcement agents, it’s a good time to remember how one small Florida community turned its tragedy into a national movement.

Eight years ago on Valentine’s Day, a mentally unstable 19-year-old brought his legally obtained AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to ...Read more

Why can’t the Texas Senate race be between John Cornyn, the Republican incumbent, versus James Talarico, a Democratic state representative? Because that would be too sane for the times we’re living in.

Instead, a recent University of Houston poll shows Ken Paxton, the state’s firebrand Republican attorney general, and Jasmine Crockett, an...Read more

On Dec. 24, Elon Musk, CEO of xAI, encouraged people to try the Grok chatbot’s new image editing feature. Users quickly began using this tool to sexualize images, mostly of women and in some cases children.

Following Musk’s Dec. 31 posts showcasing Grok-edited images of himself in a bikini and a SpaceX rocket with a woman’s undressed body...Read more

For three years, the manufacturing sector has been beaten up badly, the result of failed public policy on regulation, energy and international trade. Mistakes out of Washington cost jobs while making things more expensive for consumers and American companies.

The good news is that things are finally starting to change — and manufacturing is ...Read more

It’s conventional wisdom among many in the pundit class that Republicans have drifted significantly to the right in recent years. But while Donald Trump’s influence on the GOP has been significant on many issues, most members of the party remain supportive of its traditional positions, including free markets, lower taxes, a smaller ...Read more

As a psychologist in the occupied West Bank, I have spent my career sitting across from children carrying burdens no child should ever know — lives shaped not by playgrounds or classrooms, but by constant fear.

I recognize that fear because I lived it myself. I remember when I was less than 5 years old, Israeli soldiers stormed our home in ...Read more

The internet occasionally erupts in horror at disturbing images of wildlife: deer with freakish black bubbles all over their faces and bodies, sore-ridden squirrels, horn-growing rabbits.

As a society, we tend to hold romanticized notions about life in the wild. We picture these rabbits nuzzling with their babies, these squirrels munching on ...Read more

Two congressional Republicans from the Bluegrass State are serving as a model of how members of Congress can act with conviction over political convenience.

In an era when partisan loyalty often trumps individual conviction, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky stand out as lawmakers willing to break with their party ...Read more

Fashion week isn’t just a parade of clothes. It’s the cultural weather report, telling us what’s fresh, what’s fading and what the industry is finally ready to leave behind.

As designers debut the looks meant to define what we’ll wear next fall and winter in London, Milan, New York and Paris, they are proudly ditching fur, feathers ...Read more