Surely, this was one of the strangest and most exhilarating back-to-school days of all time.
On Wednesday night, our good-humored, tireless principal sent a detailed ema...
A crisis at the border, a health care system in shambles and endless wars: Democrats and Republicans struggle to find solutions to these pressing problems.
Maybe it’s ti...
President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw all remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan represents a major shift in U.S. counterterrorism strategy.
The withdrawal is calen...
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week.
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When the British news outlet Sky News tweeted a video interview w...
It’s plain that the federal gas tax is past its sell-by date. Originally introduced as a fair way for automobile drivers to pay for the upkeep of the roads they use, it ...
In the United States, state legislatures are now at risk of ruining smartphones the way Europe ruined the web. Bills in at least Rhode Island, North Carolina and Florida...
Moving away from a gas tax as we move to electric cars is a commonsense measure that can have large environmental benefits. It is just a matter of adjusting to technolog...
So are we having a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., or not?
University of Minnesota’s Michael Osterholm has forecast a COVID “Category 5 hurricane” this...
Racism is a serious threat to public health, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared last week.
The federal agency was a little late to a con...
Bernie Madoff is dead, and it is unlikely that even the people who were once closest to him will shed a tear.
Not his wife, Ruth, whose life was destroyed when Madoff’s ...