In his first six months in office, President Donald Trump has launched a relentless campaign of fear and intimidation aimed at dismantling the network that provides health care to transgender adolescents.

It’s working. Hospitals — worried that their federal funding for Medicaid and Medicare may be jeopardized — are rapidly withdrawing ...Read more

When Republicans were looking for ways to reduce the cost of their One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), one of the first offsets they incorporated was a federal work requirement for Medicaid.

Proponents claimed this “common-sense” policy would grow the economy by increasing employment and cut wasteful spending on “lazy,” able-bodied people ...Read more

This time, the gun death came to New York.

The same ridiculous fiction is being sold to a gullible public that was trotted out after Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, Parkland, Buffalo and all the others: Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. What’s more pathetic than those who keep selling that myth is the ease with which so many Americans buy ...Read more

While volunteering this spring at a middle school in Washington, D.C., I watched a science teacher chat with her newest student, who had recently arrived from Paris. The teacher began explaining the guidelines of an upcoming assignment, employing hand gestures and a few well-intentioned Spanish words. The student, appreciative though a bit ...Read more

Intentionally misstating New York City’s sanctuary immigration policy as thwarting the prosecution of violent criminals, the Trump administration continued its war on local government by filing suit in federal court last week, one of a number of similar lawsuits across the country that conflate civil noncooperation with active criminal ...Read more

Medicaid is the government program that is supposed to help the poor afford health care. Its cost to taxpayers has skyrocketed in the last few years, consuming more than 12 percent of federal tax revenue collected by 2025.

Projected Medicaid spending from 2025-2034 (before the One Big Beautiful Bill) was expected to total $8.2 trillion, $2.7 ...Read more

As a Christian who smuggled Bibles into my home country of Iran, I became a target of the country’s Islamist regime, which imprisons and sometimes kills those who invite Muslims to convert. After living under house arrest for two years, I fled as a refugee and was ultimately resettled to the United States.

I experienced true religious freedom...Read more

Delta Air Lines says it is rolling out “personalized fares,” which sounds benign and even sweet but is precisely the opposite.

What is really going on is that the massive airline is phasing in artificial intelligence-powered ticket pricing that may offer you a different fare for a particular trip than your neighbor down the street. Delta ...Read more

This summer, millions of people from around the world will visit America’s national parks, eager to marvel at iconic landscapes such as the Grand Canyon, Yosemite Valley and Old Faithful. These places aren’t just national treasures — they’re global ones. But the growing crowds and aging infrastructure in many parks tell a difficult story...Read more

Washington is a funny place. I don’t think President Donald Trump was thinking about former President Joe Biden with his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). But it certainly seems to poke fun at Biden’s BBB (Build Back Better) plan in name — and exceed it in some of its family priorities.

The Democrats’ BBB was all about supporting ...Read more

When it comes to reporting on the comparative health of nations, there is ample bias in the national and international press about American shortcomings. Some of it is justified — disproportionate numbers of obesity and firearm deaths are usually cited by medical and nonmedical sources, as well as the relatively high infant mortality.

But no ...Read more

The deadly Texas floods have receded, leaving lost and shattered lives. President Donald Trump tells us not to politicize the moment, with spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt calling the floods “an act of God,” meaning no one is responsible.

However, because the floods and the climate disasters that follow them make the costs heart-wrenchingly ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff negotiations have been largely successful. Not so for his efforts to end the Ukraine war.

Trump has expressed increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s escalating aggression in the European country. Time and again the president has expressed optimism after speaking with Putin about ...Read more

An Israeli soldier would position his leg against the wall in the narrow corridor to our school, then order us: “Pass under my leg, or no school.”

That was a recurring event for us children during the early 1990s in our Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, the “beach camp.”

It took us some growing up to understand it as systematic ...Read more

Edward Zakrzewski II, 60, has spent nearly half of his life on Death Row, where next Thursday he is to be the ninth person executed in 2025, a modern one-year Florida record.

Only Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the death warrant, knows why he didn’t select one of the 120 other inmates who have been there longer, or why he doesn’t answer the ...Read more

As the world rightly remains focused on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine and the humanitarian abomination that is Gaza, South Korea’s new president is trying to shake up the status quo on the Korean Peninsula, one of the most militarized regions on the planet. Whether he succeeds will depend on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s willingness...Read more

Donald Trump is hardly the first president to pressure the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates or take some other action the White House deems necessary to boost the economy and shield the commander-in-chief from the fallout that comes when voters can’t make ends meet.

President Lyndon B. Johnson did it 60 years ago, summoning William ...Read more

Ever since Donald Trump rode down his golden escalator at Trump Tower in 2015, a political and cultural realignment has been underway in America, culminating in his second presidential victory. Many issues once considered the domain of the left seem to have been adopted by the new, right-leaning populist movement.

Nowhere is this more apparent ...Read more

California has the highest residential electricity rates in the continental United States. The reason is exactly what you’d expect.

In May, residential customers in California paid an average of 35.03 cents per kilowatt-hour. Nevada residents paid 13.32 cents per kWh. In Arizona, it was 15.76 cents per kWh. California’s commercial and ...Read more

The latest national report on students who left college without earning a degree contains some sobering data: Approximately 2.1 million students stopped higher education between January 2022 and July 2023, swelling the “some college-no degree” population to more than 43 million Americans.

What’s contributing to this national crisis is a ...Read more