Opinion

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Americans can be forgiven for feeling a bit exhausted by the head-spinning pace of events in the Middle East. From calls for negotiation to sudden bombings and missile strikes, to a failed att...

June 25, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

We don’t celebrate the Fourth of July by crashing cars into buildings or dropping bowling balls off rooftops, because that would be reckless. And yet, we still manage to have a good time...

June 25, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

In his televised address to the nation Saturday night regarding the U.S. strikes on Iran, President Donald Trump declared that the attacks targeted “the destruction of Iran’s nucle...

June 25, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

In the current national political climate, bipartisanship is extremely rare, especially when it comes to important topics such as states’ rights and regulating the use of artificial inte...

June 24, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

More needs to be done to fix teacher shortage

June 24, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

At a time when polarization often drowns out nuance, a new report from More in Common titled “Shared Ideals, Divergent Realities” offers a revealing portrait of Americans’ vi...

June 24, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

President Donald Trump’s needlessly rough and cruel attitude for ICE in his mission to round up as many people as possible for the mass deportation of millions, including non-criminals,...

June 23, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

My mother always told me that the law is whatever the person with the gun says it is.

June 23, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A technological revolution is unfolding — one that will transform our world in ways we can barely comprehend. As artificial intelligence rapidly evolves and corporate America’s inv...

June 22, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

As is its right and duty, the U.S. Senate now has messed with the Trump administration’s “big, beautiful,” tax-and-spending bill that just squeaked through the House. Here&rs...

June 22, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The “No Kings Day” protests turned into a celebration of freedom and democracy, while President Donald Trump’s military-style dictator day parade was a costly flop with empty...

June 22, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Considering foreign intelligence threats to the United States, Russia and China steal the spotlight, Iran gets a sideshow listing on the playbill. What about India?

June 21, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The foreign policy of President Donald Trump, as captured in the simplistic slogan “peace through strength,” has always been fraught with contradictions. So it was only a matter of...

June 21, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

On June 9, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly fired all 17 members of a key panel of medical and science experts overseeing the use of vaccines for the...

June 20, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The United States’ security interests in Iran do not justify direct American involvement in the ongoing war between the Islamic Republic and Israel, and specifically do not justify the d...

June 20, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

It was promising when President Donald Trump listened to the pleading of his agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, and flipped on raiding farms, hotels and restaurants to arrest immigrants wh...