“I just want to find 11,780 votes,” President Donald Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a recorded phone call two months after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s goal was to retroactively inflate his Georgia vote total in order win a state he’d lo…

If financial conditions are restrictive, Wall Street sure hasn’t noticed. Stock indexes hit fresh records this week, and speculative meme stocks are back to mania levels. Meanwhile, smaller businesses in the nonfinancial economy are tightening their belts amid uncertainty over tariffs and th…

When the private sector doesn’t provide an important service, the government often steps in. That is why the framers established the U.S. Postal Service; they believed no one else would deliver the mail to the entire country. Many places in America, especially in rural communities, would not…

For decades, the CIA downplayed the extent of its knowledge about Lee Harvey Oswald’s activities before he assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Documents newly unearthed by a House task force prove that a case officer with the alias “Howard” — whose real name was George Joannides — manage…

As the Trump administration continues aggressively dismantling urgent functions of government, it’s important that critics of that dangerous project keep their criticism grounded in facts, lest they undermine their own credibility.

The Trump administration’s stunning decision to drop 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs on Iranian nuclear facilities has touched off an intense debate over the extent of the damage and raised critical questions about the country’s remaining capacity to build a nuclear weapon.

The National Guard is typically brought into American cities during emergencies such as natural disasters and civil disturbances or to provide support during public health crises — when local authorities require additional resources or manpower. There was no indication that was needed or wan…

The reading of the names of Massachusetts’ fallen military heroes had to be moved indoors this year when the weekend that also marks the unofficial start of summer began in the cold and the rain. But the 37,000 flags planted on Boston Common, representing the state’s war dead through the gen…

Presidential second terms are rarely successful, and on the evidence of his first 100 days Donald Trump ‘s won’t be different. The President needs a major reset if he wants to rescue his final years from the economic and foreign-policy shocks he has unleashed.

Last year’s election was close, despite President Trump’s hyperbolic claims about his margin of victory. Still, the Democratic Party clearly lost — and not only the presidential race. It also lost control of the Senate and failed to recapture the House of Representatives. Of the 11 governor’…

Academia’s leftward drift is a problem. It has undermined universities’ core missions of accumulating and disseminating ideas. Surveys indicate that significant fractions of students and professors are afraid to tackle controversial topics, with moderates and conservatives most likely to say…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been Health and Human Services secretary for just over a week, but he’s already pressing what looks like an anti-vaccine agenda. Mr. Kennedy never did disavow his vaccine views in the run-up to Senate confirmation. He merely said he wouldn’t take away anyone’s vacci…

Ukraine and its European allies braced for the worst when Donald Trump won a second term. But the scale of his surrender to Russian aggression has still shocked them. On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin’s nearly three years of isolation by the West was broken by his 90-minute, “highly productive” c…

Migrants aren’t the only ones dying — more than 5,000 in the last decade — because politics has replaced common sense as a way to solve the human crisis occurring daily at the U.S. border with Mexico.

MAGA hardliners may be apoplectic, but President-elect Donald Trump got it spot on when he embraced the kind of visa program used to bring highly skilled technology workers to this country — an article of faith for the “tech bros” who supported Trump during his campaign.

In case you missed last Friday’s preholiday news dump, the Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that homelessness this year hit a record. Add this to President Biden’s regrettable legacies, though it’s notable that progressive states accounted for most of the increase.

The tyrant is gone. After 13 years of civil war and 50 years under the repressive Assad regimes, Syrians have every reason to celebrate.

Politicians prattle on endlessly about their love for small business, as opposed to the corporate giants it’s easy to denounce. Yet, when they get the chance, they saddle small business with laws like the Corporate Transparency Act. A federal court in Texas has handed Donald Trump and the Re…

President-elect Donald Trump is selecting radical MAGA loyalists for top national security positions, signaling his intention to upend the professionalism and independence of institutions that wield some of the federal government’s most awesome powers. Political opponents, journalists and ot…

It’s a depressingly familiar Washington story: A well-meaning update of a single Education Department college form turned into a massive policy blunder, harming the very students and universities it was meant to help. Worse, the department now appears to have failed to fix the problem in tim…

The United States had an opportunity to close a chapter on a sad, decadeslong saga when the government reached a plea deal with three men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Then, within days, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin squandered that chance.

Kamala Harris is on a well-deserved roll right now. Her strong campaign appearances and energetic VP choice are firing up Democrats and building momentum for her nascent presidential campaign. Polls indicate once-skeptical independents are taking another look at a candidate who not long ago …

Voting is not a privilege. It’s a right. But one group of citizens has been long denied that right in parts of the country.

President Biden and former president Donald Trump don’t agree on much, but both have pledged not to touch Social Security benefits. This is a reflection of political reality, which is that a lot of seniors, who tend to vote at high rates, depend on the programs, and that they are popular gen…

Developing nations have long complained that globalisation has enthroned western currencies in such a way as to subsidise living standards in the rich world. Last year, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the Brics – even talked of an alternative common currency to replace the do…

Of the 653,000 people who experience homelessness in the United States, 41% live in the nine westernmost states, according to the most recent federal survey. That includes the five states with the highest rates of unsheltered people. There are many reasons for this, from patterns of poverty …

The people who breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are being held accountable, and attempts to rebrand them as patriotic choirboys are a sign of the bizarre political times. Yet, is it unduly stretching the law to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters using the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002?

The suffering of civilians in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, many of them children; hundreds of thousands homeless, many at risk of starvation — has become more than a growing number of Americans can abide. And yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his ultranationalist allies i…

Women’s college basketball has become a cultural phenomenon. Arenas are selling out. Records have been set for Division I all-time college points, three-pointers and TV viewership. Women’s Final Four tickets have been reselling for double the men’s tickets.

As cars go electric and get more technologically advanced, their interiors are increasingly being built around prominent dashboard touch screens.

It may be tempting to look at new rules finalized last week by the Biden administration boosting sales of electric vehicles as a big step toward slashing climate-changing pollution.

The Supreme Court declared nearly two years ago, when it overruled Roe v. Wade, that the rules on abortion were now up to the states — but as the justices hear a critical case this week regarding the pill mifepristone, reproductive rights rest yet again in their hands. The good news is, this…

The SAT and ACT are making a small but important comeback after the tests were widely dropped as a requirement for college applications during the pandemic.

Two years after Russia’s brutal and unprovoked invasion, Ukraine continues to defend its territory bravely but has withdrawn its forces from a key city under attack and is short of weapons and ammunition. But because of partisan paralysis in Washington — and the malign influence of Donald J.…

Contrary to the popular refrain, video never really did kill the radio star. Electric vehicles, however, might do the job. The question is whether Congress should accelerate the process.

Congress’ border deal talks might be ongoing, but in one essential area, legislators are moving backward: The ‘Dreamers,’ undocumented immigrants who came to this country as children, have been left out of the conversation.

Socialists love nothing more than an old-fashioned show trial. Witness Bernie Sanders’ announcement last week that he’ll subpoena the CEOs of drugmakers that have challenged the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls.

Good news for West Coast denizens. The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal challenging a judicial ruling that established a de facto constitutional right to vagrancy. Wouldn’t it be rich if conservative Justices rescue progressive cities from themselves? (City of Grants Pass v. …

The 2023 death of affirmative action in college admissions at the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court had at least one positive effect: It finally focused attention on the inherently biased system for getting a higher education. Not biased toward people of color, but toward people of privilege, …

It’s an election year, so every economic report is going to be filtered through the lens of political benefit. President Biden thus celebrated Friday’s Labor Department report that employers added a solid 216,000 jobs in December, but below the top line there are signs of a softening labor m…

Normally we wouldn't wish trial lawyers on our worst enemy. But as anti-Israel demonstrations grow increasingly lawless, the plaintiffs bar could help. Why not hit protesters who break the law and keep Americans from getting to their destination with a tort liability suit for false imprisonment?

After three other criminal indictments were filed against him, Donald Trump was accused on Monday of racketeering. In a new indictment, Fani Willis, the district attorney of Fulton County, Ga., charged him with leading what was effectively a criminal gang to overturn the 2020 presidential el…