The economy is weird right now.
Depending on which definition you use, we're in a recession, we're about to be in a recession or we're nowhere near a recession. Last Frid...
Oprah Winfrey said her fourth-grade teacher created a “spark for learning” and is why she had a talk show. Lin Manuel-Miranda said arts education “saved his life” and cit...
"I like Mr. Gorbachev," British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said in 1984. "We can do business together."
Many Westerners shared the sentiment, including, most conseq...
President Joe Biden’s student-debt plan is bad policy in too many ways to count. But is it also bad politics? Apparently he and his advisers think not, given that he anno...
For everyday Russians, the lens into the war in Ukraine is through a camera operated by Vladimir Putin.
Through propagandized content on state-controlled broadcast and pr...
Consider this for an illustration of just how much society has changed in the past few generations: New data shows that, for the first time ever, more Americans use marij...
California is at it again. This time, the state Air Resources Board has issued a regulation banning the sale of new gasoline- or diesel-powered cars in just 12 years. Gol...
The examples abound of America’s lurch toward greater extremism on both the right and left. It’s getting to the point where free speech is being stifled by self-righteous...
The recently passed PACT Act, which expands health care and benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxic substances, is long overdue. As someone who was clo...
Aug. 24 marked six months since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine. It was also Ukraine’s Independence Day. Yet instead of celebrating, Kyiv canceled all holiday observ...