Their Views

March 18, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

An acquaintance who worked in the first Trump administration offers some insight into the president’s decision-making process.

March 18, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Are we seeing the slow-motion collapse of the rule of law in the United States and Israel at the same time? It is too early to answer that question, but it is no longer too early to ask it....

March 17, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

The beginning of talks aimed at some sort of end to conflict, we dare not say peace, between Ukraine and Russia is cause of great concern for those of us who have urged the U.S. and the Wester...

March 17, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Many observers suggest that the United States is coming apart as a nation. They parse us into red states and blue states, urban areas versus rural. Some believe that our social and political d...

March 17, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Last month, close to 1,000 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration workers, including weather forecasters, were fired. The Trump administration has now told agency leaders to fir...

March 16, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

As more and more of our country seems to be polarized over just about everything, I was thinking the other day about that moment nearly 50 years ago (1977!) when a reader wrote into Ann Lander...

March 16, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Abombshell media report recently exposed an official-unofficial policy at the National Institutes of Health under former director Francis Collins: Top officials conducted public business in pr...

March 15, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to res...

March 15, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Southwest Airlines used to be a different kind of airline: free bags, grab whichever seat you like, use a coupon for a beer and then sit back and prepare to be entertained by the flight attend...

March 14, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Columbia University and its sister school Barnard College did an exceedingly poor job handling nasty anti-Israel campus protests, which too often bled into even nastier antisemitism, but the f...

March 13, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

It used to be common knowledge — not just among policymakers and economists but also high school students with a grasp of history — that tariffs are a terrible idea. The phrase &ld...

March 13, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

Immigrants to the United States holding green cards never expect to encounter agents from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE.

March 13, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

In his record-long address to Congress, President Donald Trump reiterated his aspiration to have taxes on tips and overtime pay eliminated, a position that has enough bipartisan cachet that it...

March 12, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

When I was a teenager, a professor my parents knew heard that I wanted to major in physics. Because I am blind, he told my parents that wouldn’t be possible: “Physicists,” he...

March 12, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Democrats would have us believe that Hunter “Fortunate Son” Biden was hired by Burisma for his skills, that his artworks’ lofty sales had nothing to do with the fact that his...

March 11, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

A few weeks ago, I asked a good friend who is in the United States on a green card if he might be willing to be interviewed about a controversial Trump administration policy involving the coun...