Sen. Joe Manchin carries a fateful burden. By quirk of gridlock, he is literally the swing vote between two warring visions for the vote itself. If he gives his decisive...
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught Americans anything, it’s surely the necessity of making sure everyone has access to decent medical care. After all, it’s not enough t...
Each year, thousands of eighth grade students from across the nation take a class trip to Washington, D.C. The impact can be life-changing, especially as young people bo...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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The new COVID-19 variants were named after brain wave frequencies....
For Gaylord Perry, today’s pitcher’s mound would be a candy store.
Perry was a gifted pitcher during the 1970s and later a Hall of Fame inductee, but he also was a notor...
June 17 marked the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s 1971 speech beginning the war on drugs.
By any objective accounting, the drawn-out conflict has been a c...
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line:
The instant analysis of this Geneva summit is the...
Last December, Oregon lawmaker Mike Nearman was meeting with activists unhappy with the state’s pandemic lockdown. He shared their sentiments and thought he’d do somethi...
The cost of caring for America’s nearly 6 million Alzheimer’s disease patients is already $600 billion a year, factoring in the cost of uncompensated caregiving.
Now, t...
President Joe Biden’s decision to donate 500 million COVID-19 vaccines to other countries by June 2022 is an important step toward restoring the United States’ global st...
