Americans are increasingly familiar with the many joys of wildfire smoke: stinging eyes, raspy throats, aggravated health conditions, speed-learning the nuances of the Ai...
On a December afternoon nearly 50 years ago, I got a phone call from Jody Powell, the press secretary to a little-known former governor of Georgia who had this bizarre no...
The long list of victims under Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega’s experiment in totalitarianism continues to grow.
Hundreds of his political adversaries and civil societ...
On Tuesday, congressional leaders spent two hours taking to task Novo Nordisk Chief Executive Officer Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen over the high price of the company’s diabe...
We have all seen the ubiquitous “man on the street” interviews where young people struggle to identify the branches of government or their elected representatives. And th...
American politics is anything but boring. That’s not a good thing. A stable, even dull political order is a worthy goal. Just as the Founders ditched a political order th...
It was always a given that dehumanizing rhetoric around immigration would intensify as the presidential election approached. Unfortunately, in the turn to dangerous lies ...
Could our unshakable addiction to plastics be broken?
That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest produ...
Nearly half a million Americans received an unpleasant surprise this summer, according to insurance billing data: a new diagnosis of Lyme disease. Those numbers could shr...
Our eighth graders have a yearly tradition: They walk the hallways on their last day of school while the sixth and seventh graders and their teachers stand and honor them...