Hey, computer, leave them kids alone! We should start singing a new tune. Well, at least an old one with new lyrics. That’s because we’re finally seeing some momentum on getting cellphones out of America’s classrooms. It’s also happening in Europe.

Now is a good time to take it a step further. Let’s get rid of screens.

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He didn’t say “please.”

See, that’s the funny thing about dictators. They don’t like being told what to do.

Mussolini wasn’t too fond of outside criticism when he was spreading facism throughout Italy in the 1920s and 1930s.

Idi Amin wasn’t exactly taking opinion polls when he used his brutal army to crush certain ethnic groups...Read more

President Donald Trump has made it clear since his first term that he's no fan of libraries, or books for that matter.

In addition to attempting to cut their funding then, he created a frenzy over drag queen story hours that were hosted by some libraries, and backed book banning in school facilities.

Like so much of the Trump 2.0 agenda, it ...Read more

Credit President Donald Trump with the stunning back-from-the-dead victory of the Canadian Liberal Party. Or put another way, Trump just lost a big election, with (North) Americans rejecting him after just 100 days in office.

Only months ago, it appeared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party was on the verge of a knockout by a resurgent ...Read more

Let's just presume for argument's sake that the Trump administration and its chief flunky at the Department of Health and Human Services are actually serious about identifying a definitive cause of autism by September, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this month.

I know. That's a bit of a big ask, as they say. If they were actually serious about ...Read more

Nisha Acharya, an eye doctor and UC San Francisco professor, was at her campus clinic tending patients when a surprising email arrived.

Her federal research grant had just been terminated, according to a reporter for the Washington Post, who wondered if Acharya had any comment.

She was stunned. Her research, into the workings of the shingles ...Read more

Forget the wildfires, earthquakes, water shortages and all the other factors that place the California dream in doubt, according to pundits. Gov. Gavin Newsom has some good news, citing federal and international statistics: California has just moved up a notch to become the world's fourth-largest economy.

That happened because the state's gross...Read more

No words can better capture the reality in Gaza today than this: We are dying.

Every day, in every imaginable way, we die. Death comes by missile, by gunshot, by collapsed building, by lack of medicine and by fear. And now, once again, it will come by hunger as Israel has closed off humanitarian supplies— with the agreement of not just the ...Read more

Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas has never done anything bad to President Donald Trump, as far as we know. In fact, she was his loyal White House press secretary for nearly two years. She runs a state that voted for Trump over Kamala Harris by a 30 percentage point margin.

But after a mid-March outbreak of tornadoes, high winds and ...Read more

Is there such a thing as a “real America”? A battle now rages over this simple question. Some Democratic party operatives claim the real America are so-called “Trump voters,” who they say they need to better “study” in order to win future elections.

Many Republican voices argue the real America are just those who support the new ...Read more

As Donald Trump completes the first 100 days of his second term, the consequences of his early health care decisions are already coming into view. Through executive orders and agency directives, his administration has set a clear national agenda: cut costs, shrink government, and reduce federal oversight.

History shows that decisions made ...Read more

This trade war is no ordinary crisis of the kind that buffeted capitalism periodically in the past few generations. It’s less a storm, Singapore’s deputy premier asserts, and more like “a tidal wave.” When leaders of a successful, trade-dependent nation talk this way, it demands attention.

And yet... for all its power, the analogy doesn...Read more

Ronald Reagan was wrong. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are not “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” They are: “The arc of the moral universe bends towards justice.”

This is a pretty phrase that was invented by a good person, Theodore Parker, and revived by another good one, Martin Luther King Jr....Read more

If Democrats think the path back to voters’ hearts runs through a minefield of f-bombs, they’re in for another rough election cycle.

We get it — Democrats got walloped, hate what is happening now and are engaged in a lot of soul-searching.

We admire self-reflection. But banking on f-bombs is the political equivalent of getting curtain ...Read more

Historians may come to conclude that one of the most consequential moments of Donald Trump’s return to the White House took place on the first full day of his second term and in a church, not the president’s most natural milieu.

President Trump, his family and top administration officials attended an interfaith prayer service at Washington ...Read more

Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a record 43 percent rise in “sheltered homelessness” – staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as opposed to living on the street. That is shocking enough on its own, but according to a new study, a contemporaneous spike in asylum seekers accounted for a stunning 60% of that increase.

“Asylum ...Read more

Spring is in the air, and Democrats are rummaging through the political closet and trying on different looks. When just a little more than a quarter of registered voters have positive views about you, a makeover sounds appealing. But manufactured cool is cringe — and gimmicks won’t save a party that’s forgotten how to be real.

Rebranding ...Read more