January 6, 2025 | 3 MIN READ
Are you a New Year’s resolution hater? Could you care any less that early Christians reflected on past sins at this time of year or that your neighbor will finally use that Peloton to work out in January? If that’s the case, you’re in good company.
December 31, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
In the midst of a flurry of presidential pardons and commutations by President Joe Biden, there is talk in the White House of preemptive pardons for people who could be at risk of prosecution by the next administration.
December 31, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
Many Americans fear what Donald Trump will do after assuming the presidency in January — and understandably so. Trump’s pathological self-absorption has no place in American government, let alone at its very top.
December 30, 2024 | 4 MIN READ
On the one hand, there’s no sugarcoating how progressives feel at the close of 2024: rough.
December 30, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
As science continues its evolution, discoveries and technologies can act like a master key that opens doors that lead to novel advancements. Artificial intelligence is one such key, making innovations possible by solving complex problems, automating tasks and enabling research that would hav...
December 30, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
For those on the right side of the political aisle, 2024 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, we had to trudge through the final year of Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency while fighting tooth and nail to prevent the administration from inflicting further economic carnage.
December 25, 2024 | 6 MIN READ
“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he and his wife would pick summer berries on a trail through the tundra outside their river town in southwest Alaska, but no...
December 25, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
Across the country, a growing anti-college sentiment has been gaining momentum, positioning itself as an inclusive alternative to traditional views of success. The movement has led more high schools to promote alternative career paths and even revise their missions to exclude any mention of...
December 24, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
U.S. educators better hope Santa doesn’t check test results. New results from an international comparison of K-12 students showed they continue to fall behind their peers around the world. If American students are to bounce back, policymakers nationwide need to ignore the calls for low...
December 24, 2024 | 4 MIN READ
When Kevin Towers was the San Diego Padres’ general manager, he received a voicemail delivered in a high-pitched, high-energy voice then familiar to most baseball people: “KT! It’s Rickey! Calling about Rickey! Rickey wants to play baseball!” Rickey Henderson, in 2001...
December 23, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
It’s wrong for the incoming president to start suing newspapers and it’s a transparent effort to bully the press, but there Donald Trump stood Monday, proclaiming that “we have to straighten out the press. Our press is very corrupt. Almost as corrupt as our elections.&rdquo...
December 23, 2024 | 5 MIN READ
The Dec. 16 shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, has shocked the nation, not only for its horror but for its unique profile. This time, a teenage girl opened fire inside her school, killing a teacher, another student, and apparently herself, and injuring six othe...
December 17, 2024 | 2 MIN READ
The aerospace industry was relieved last year when the Federal Aviation Administration, the main regulator for all things that fly, finally got an administrator after an 18-month vacancy.
December 17, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
The resistance to Donald Trump has failed. He has now shaped American politics for nearly a decade, with four more years — at least — to go. A hard truth his opponents must accept: Trump is the most dominant American politician since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
December 16, 2024 | 3 MIN READ
Just days after a former Proud Boy from Miami was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to pardon people involved in the attack meant to overturn his 2020 defeat.
December 16, 2024 | 7 MIN READ
When did we know that the #MeToo moment was truly over?
