Opinion

April 16, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Last Tuesday, the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt new, stricter guidelines on cellphones that essentially require students to keep them turned off in th...

April 16, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The unqualified and unfit Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is putting in place his long-held quack theories, which will harm the health of Americans.

April 15, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Social Security is at the center of the fiscal emergency that threatens the U.S. Yet Washington is always reluctant to grapple with it honestly, partly because the issue is misunderstood....

April 15, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Parks and Recreation did a wonderful job

April 15, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The Trump administration recently announced that undocumented immigrants aged 14 and older must register with the federal government or face criminal prosecution. The requirement relies on the...

April 14, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

You have to give it to Donald Trump. The man is a marvel at multitasking.

April 14, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Donald Trump’s ever-evolving trade policy veered in another direction on Wednesday when the president announced he was pausing certain tariffs on many countries — but not China &md...

April 14, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Donald Trump caved.

April 13, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

During his last weeks in office, President Joe Biden signed an executive order banning energy development on public lands in Nevada’s Ruby Mountains and in parts of north-central New Mex...

April 13, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed down schools in March 2020, our children are still suffering from learning loss. Recent results from the National Assessment of Education Progress...

April 13, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

President Trump vs. the global economy

April 12, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

The share of before-tax income going to the richest 1% of taxpayers has more than doubled in the last half-century. This massive upward redistribution of income was primarily a result of the a...

April 12, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

It is a fool’s errand to try to rationalize President Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs.

April 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

College students’ angst is the worst in decades

April 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Since the Trump administration has refused to guarantee that people being picked and deported using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act have the right to appear before a judge, the U.S. Supreme Court m...

April 11, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A leopard can’t change its spots. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is hoping the public won’t remember that.