The United States faces a nationwide crisis in which our young people are reading at alarmingly low rates, with just 1 in 3 fourth graders meeting proficiency standards. So why are some on the right focused on standardized testing, not for students but for teachers?

The Donald Trump honeymoon is over before it even got started because Democrats and the media are determined to trip him up and fan the flames of dissent.

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump inauguration comes as no surprise. Trump and major social media platforms have been warring for years over perceived anti-conservative bias, including Meta’s decision to shutter Trump’s accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

As President Joe Biden’s White House tenure winds down, he continues to put progressive policies before people.

Recent Supreme Court rulings protecting Americans from bureaucratic excesses are now bearing fruit.

Has any (unelected) figure come to huge power with such rapidity as Elon Musk? Aside from becoming Donald Trump’s consigliere and the founder of United Airlines’ new main Wi-Fi provider, Musk has started using his massive platform on X, where he has 211 million followers and owner’s privileges, to inflict all kinds of pain on mostly left-wing British politicians. Immigrants certainly get the job done.

Time to focus, Mr. President-elect.

Donald Trump, formally and peacefully certified this week as the next president, wants to launch his second term by ramming through a “big, beautiful bill” that will encompass everything from immigration to energy to taxes. Glopping all that into a single package is a terrible idea and the Congress should not go along.

Will President-elect Donald Trump’s vow to “launch the largest deportation program in American history” truly keep millions of immigrants out of the country? My research on deportees over the last five years suggests it won’t.

Donald Trump’s election with Republican House and Senate majorities has put the Internal Revenue Service back in the spotlight. The agency lost $20 billion in funding under the latest deal to avoid a government shutdown, and further cuts to its enforcement budget are likely in the next Congress.

I was 21 when Jimmy Carter was elected in 1976. Over the four years of his presidency, I started my newspaper career, got married, had two daughters, bought a house and sold it and then bought another, and lost my father.

Donald Trump, just days from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a whale, murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick — because he’s so mean he makes medicine sick.

Updates keep coming in on the New Year’s Day terrorist attack on Bourbon Street, but one detail thus far is especially disturbing and serves as a wake up call to cities across the country.

Many Democrats remain comically befuddled over how they lost two of the past three presidential elections to Donald Trump. As one might expect from those obsessed with gender and identity politics, they now engage in projection, chalking up the defeats to a sexist and misogynist electorate.

If you want to understand the health of American democracy, what happens in state legislatures matters just as much as what happens in Washington, D.C., and Mar-a-Lago.

For those waiting and hoping to see the economy return to pre-COVID levels of activity, recent employment data, while showing considerable strength, must be discouraging.