Recently, during rounds, I met a patient who almost missed her own heart attack. Sheâd had chest pain for hours before she finally came in. Cl…
When Maryland Gov. Wes Moore appeared on CBSâ âFace the Nationâ on Sunday, he dismissed as ânonsenseâ the presidentâs suggestion that the fede…
Four astronauts are on a journey around the moon, a mission that offers a rare chance to see our world from a distance, and ourselves more clearly.
A bright light went out at the state Capitol last month. Lawmakers should plug it back in, with help from the public.
The Red Mass, a long-standing tradition marking the start of the U.S. Supreme Courtâs term, brings judges, lawyers and public officials togeth…
Menomonieâs decision to reject a proposed data center was a good example of local government listening to a potential business, listening to c…
Without access to data thatâs both objective and seen to be objective, financial markets and government policy are dangerously compromised.
One of the more notable successes of President Donald Trumpâs first term was how the administration was able to develop effective COVID-19 vac…
Itâs a tense time in the Jewish family group chats. The consensus that held American Jewry together for generations is breaking down. That con…
Believe it or not, France has had a form of social security since the 1600s, and its modern system began in earnest in 1910, when the world's …
There is no good reason for any American to become infected with the measles virus in 2025. Effective vaccines reduced the incidence of the di…
The Fourth of July holiday celebrates community, national and also local. Parades featuring people in uniform â scouts, firefighters and polic…
Americans can be forgiven for feeling a bit exhausted by the head-spinning pace of events in the Middle East.
Promising an apocalypse by the ayatollahs who were getting ever closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon to carry out that diabolical wish, Israel…
Hurricane Beryl, a relatively weak storm, caused at least $1.5 billion in direct damage in Texas in July 2024. It was just one of the 27 billi…
Before this Saturdayâs enormous nationwide No Kings protests, Leah Greenberg, a founder of Indivisible, one of the groups behind the demonstra…
House Republicansâ reconciliation bill seeks to pay for $5 trillion of tax cuts by slashing health-care spending, potentially leaving millions…
President Donald Trump is threatening to strip Harvard of $3 billion in critical research dollars and redirect the money to trade schools unle…
From Istanbul to the Vatican to the Oval Office, everyone seems to want peace in Ukraine â except Vladimir Putin.
The price of Wegovy, Novo Nordiskâs blockbuster weight-loss drug, is $1,349 a month in the U.S.; in Germany, itâs $328. The U.S. price for Key…
Credit President Donald Trump with the stunning back-from-the-dead victory of the Canadian Liberal Party. Or put another way, Trump just lost …
Itâs no secret that members of Congress are considering repealing parts of the Inflation Reduction Act. While I support re-evaluating this leg…
If there was one moment that exemplified the work and message of Pope Francis, it would be this: the late Pontiff embracing Vinicio Riva, a ma…
By now, most newspaper readers know the basics: Somehow, Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegse…
This op-ed from U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil, who represents Wisconsinâs 1st Congressional District that includes Janesville, is in response to an ed…
âCompletely bonkers and unconstitutional,â not to mention âreally shocking,â is how a lawyer with expertise on First Amendment press freedoms …
In 2023, most Americans were spending $438 per month on groceries that five years ago cost them $335. If experts on Pennsylvania farming are t…
Ten steps forward, 50 steps back. Thatâs what the sum of progress in the U.S. feels like for many who believe in civil and human rights follow…
As Donald J. Trump roared out of the gate with a barrage of radical executive orders, blathering rhetorical weaves and handing out ill-conside…
Itâs time to stop treating the trafficking of deadly drugs as a non-violent crime.
In choosing South Dakotaâs John Thune as their new leader, Senate Republicans appear to have recognized a crucial truth: It is in their partyâ…
âThe implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself,â observes the loyal-to-a-fault Macduff in William Shakespear…
One of the World Health Organizationâs most important jobs is managing viral outbreaks. The rapid spread of mpox, a disease related to smallpo…
When the terrorist organization known as Hezbollah found its pagers exploding in its membersâ faces, presumably following Israeli manipulation…
One might think everything worth knowing about James Madison, primary author of the U.S. Constitution, the fourth president and namesake for W…
To say Americans are dissatisfied with the state of the economy is an understatement. Polls since late 2021 have consistently shown majority d…
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and a half-century of settled abortion rights two years ago, Donald Trump said it would be …
While the last month has been roiled by unprecedented political turmoil, with less than 90 days before the election, pressing policy issues ar…
Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesnât convince you of that, a new study should.
Americans of all political persuasions should celebrate the release of their countrymen and women from Russian prison cells. While the price w…
Vice President Kamala Harris has a golden opportunity to demonstrate she is ready to govern from the middle by frankly addressing her role in …
Conventional wisdom among political consultants says that a presidential candidateâs choice of a running mate has a marginal impact on the ele…
Months if not years in the making, a bipartisan bill in Washington seeks to speed up permitting for new energy infrastructure, which far too o…
A federal appeals court last week issued a one-sentence order granting an effort by Missouri and several other states to block the Biden admin…
The Biden saga has roiled Democrats and gripped the Beltway, but Congress marches on doing what it does best: wasting other peopleâs money. Co…
The European Union faces a daunting challenge over the next five years: Get public finances in order while mustering the investment needed to …
Health care in Wisconsin is suffering from a serious case of âlong COVID.â Not so much the disease itself, although itâs on the rise again, bu…
In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines Friday, the Supreme Courtâs conservative majority decided that congressional intent be damned in sidin…
Who holds Major League Baseballâs record for the highest batting average in a single season?
The federal government should not be in the business of forcing unions onto workers. But Democrats both in Michigan and nationally are acting …
Last week, Apple released the worst advertisement in its long and previously illustrious history of brand creation, extension and promotion. W…
Steaks and shakes are the new SUVs. Itâs all those cows, contentedly mooing while producing billions of pounds of planet-warming methane. The …
Neither of the two presumptive major party presidential nominees wants to seriously discuss Social Security. But political cowardice is no sub…
President Joe Bidenâs statement that he would be âhappyâ to debate Donald J. Trump means that voters will have at least one opportunity to see…
Free speech and freedom of assembly are foundational rights in the United States. Our college campuses must be places where young people can e…
The protesters taking over college campuses are not antisemitic, so weâre told, but they want to destroy the only Jewish state. They just want…
University campuses nationwide have long been the focus of political debates and battles in the form of protests and demonstrations. In recent…
The Jimmy Carter years were marked by high interest rates, rampant unemployment, soaring inflation and weak economic growth. President Joe Bid…
Amending the Constitution has become about as rare as Haleyâs comet. That wouldnât be a problem if the checks, balances and principles set for…
Students are taught in civics class that, under the American justice system, a defendant may be convicted of a crime only if a jury finds him …
American history is replete with paradigm-shifting, landscape-altering, game-changing moments. Brown v. Board of Education is one of them.
The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of US government borrowing…
Americaâs approach to health care is an outlier among the worldâs rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously…
Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly â though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too â but quickly, in c…
By most standard economic measures, President Joe Biden has presided over a strong economy. In terms of growth, job creation, wage gains and e…
For more than two years, Vladimir Putinâs bluster, blame and threats of escalation have been driven by a singular goal: deterring and discoura…
The United States has recently recorded 58 cases of measles in 17 states, including Virginia. That should be a wakeup call for parents and hea…
A few months ago, the idea that in vitro fertilization â the medical process of fertilizing eggs in a lab setting and selecting embryos to be …
Anyone who thinks policy doesnât matter should consider that red states are outperforming blue states economically.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid is known by high school seniors, college students and their parents, as well as everyone else by …
âWhat are you doing, Alabama?â Neil Young sang. The question must be asked again and at the top of the nationâs lungs, as abortion fundamental…
Four years since the COVID pandemic began, many US school districts are hurtling toward a fiscal crisis.
He had only been in the U.S. House for 17 months, but Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher knew how he would fix the grandstanding, gridlock …
Saturday marks the two-year anniversary of Russian despot Vladimir Putinâs invasion of Ukraine, after Moscowâs military forces took control of…
Money sent out in haste most often goes to waste. Thatâs an apt assessment of many government programs, and it certainly applies to funding me…
And with a tie House vote of 215-215 on the phony articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, House Spe…
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken started the new year with a sensible, and productive, visit to Africa. In late January, he traveled to Cabo…
Health care in Wisconsin is suffering from a serious case of âlong COVID.â Not so much the disease itself, although itâs on the rise again, bu…
Without much rubber-necking, I counted 11 vehicles the other day marked âFor Saleâ on the side of Highway 13 between the town of Rome and the …
Until this weekend, the roughly 45,000 U.S. troops based in the Middle East were able to insulate themselves from the chaos of the region.