The energy policy choices our nation makes today are among the most important and far-reaching policy decisions we will make in the 21 st century.

U.S. oil production reached a record high last year. If we are to continue our nation’s positive energy trends, we must implement energy policies based on current reality and our potential as an ...Read more

The word that seems to concern many people today is “affordability.” Whether one is purchasing a home, buying food or paying doctors’ bills, everything seems more expensive. And the fact is, everything is more expensive.

The consumer price index in December 2021 stood at 278. By December 2025, it had reached 324 — an increase of 16.5 ...Read more

Last December, the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for demolishing the East Wing of the White House for Trump’s $300 million ballroom.

While the destruction alarmed historians and preservationists, angered political opponents, and may prove illegal, it’s also ...Read more

Much of what I know and practice I have learned at a Starbucks. For me, it is where community and connection are as steady as and unique as a craft beverage.

Not long ago, I thought of Robert Fulghum's "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten." Fulghum’s main idea was clear: The same rules that help kids get along, like playing ...Read more

A science-fiction trope is the time traveler who visits the present day with a dire warning about the future only to be tragically ignored. It resonates because it’s so believable. In fact, Earth had just such a visitor recently, and we dismissed it completely.

Three years ago, scientists warned that an approaching El Niño in the Pacific ...Read more

In his State of the Union address, the president announced a new type of government retirement account designed for Americans who don’t have access to one. Whether he can make good on this promise remains to be seen, given the likely need for legislative approval from a deeply divided Congress in an election year.

Donald Trump in 2026? Try ...Read more

For decades, autism was believed to overwhelmingly affect boys. Yet a big new study out of Sweden provides perhaps the best evidence yet that girls aren’t less likely to be autistic — they’re just less likely to be diagnosed young.

Researchers looked across 35 years of health records for nearly 2.8 million people (an incredibly complete ...Read more

America is having a collective freakout about jobs — specifically, that soon AI will do everything and leave everyone unemployable. This concern is not necessarily misplaced, but it is better understood as part of a larger worry: that one of the country’s most critical resources, human capital, is eroding.

A large, diverse and highly ...Read more

As part of a good education in our changing world, children should learn how to apply their own developing intelligence to the artificial intelligence that’s served up to then in ever larger quantities on the internet. Students need to understand what AI is, know its limitations and learn how to evaluate it.

Virginia has wisely worked in ...Read more

At a time when so many forces seem to be dividing us as a nation, it is tragic that President Donald Trump seeks to co-opt or destroy whatever remaining threads unite us.

I refer, of course, to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team winning gold: the kind of victory that normally causes Americans to forget their differences and instead focus on ...Read more

Fifty-six years ago, President Richard Nixon sent a letter to Congress proposing the formation of a new federal regulator: the Environmental Protection Agency. Back then, big city skylines were shrouded in smog, chemicals and waste had spoiled the nation’s waterways, and Americans across the political spectrum recognized the need to safeguard ...Read more

To critics, renaming Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald Trump smacks of political graffiti. But the coming grift is what they should be most concerned about.

The Trump Organization said Trump was “deeply honored that the people of Florida are considering renaming his hometown airport in his honor.”

But the people of ...Read more

The mid-decade congressional redistricting war that President Donald Trump triggered is likely to end without any clear partisan benefit for either party. But the cost to the country will be substantial.

Neither party is likely to net a meaningful advantage in the House of Representatives because the competing redistricting frenzies in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s second administration has displayed a certain kind of masculine flex — the sort that reflects the populist right’s notion of manliness: a defense secretary who tells the world “F-A-F-O;” a health and human services secretary who publicizes shirtless workouts; an upcoming MMA tournament on the White House lawn. ...Read more

As almost everybody knows, the AI gold rush is upon us. And in few fields is it happening as fast and furiously as in healthcare.

That points to an important corollary: Beware.

Artificial intelligence technology has helped radiologists identify anomalies in images that human users have missed. It has some evident benefits in relieving doctors ...Read more

France is great. I visit a few times a year, and the food is fantastic, the museums are amazing, and the day care is free (or heavily subsidized) starting at 3 months old. New York City, where I live, is also great, with pretty good food and architecture. The day care, not so much.

Of course that French day care comes at a steep price. The ...Read more

Muted yet deafening are the many dog whistles suggesting that American foreign policy under President Donald Trump is at least in part based on race, and specifically on white Christian nationalism.

Nobody in the administration has said so baldly. In fact, all involved reject the idea with well-rehearsed indignation. “I am, by the way, the ...Read more

Explaining cruelty to a child is difficult, especially when it comes from policy, not chance. My youngest son, just old enough to notice, asks why a boy with a backpack is crying on TV. He wonders why the police grip his father’s hand so tightly, and why the woman behind them is crying so hard she can barely walk.

Unfortunately, I tell him ...Read more