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We graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 50 years ago. Though it was a tough place academically, MIT taught us our crafts... Read More

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg returned from parental leave into what should have been a code red situation for his department.... Read More

Truth in advertising is a legal requirement in the United States. But truth in advocacy often gets a pass. The polemics surrounding the... Read More

The framework for President Biden’s multi-trillion tax and spend budget currently calls for financing his massive social agenda in part... Read More

The past few weeks have seen a radical change in the outlook for nuclear energy. Coincident with the global COP26 conference, major... Read More

The year 2020 is one most people will never forget due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but an even more insidious virus was also infecting... Read More

Imagine it’s November 2020, and I offer you the following vision of Joe Biden’s first year in office: Stocks will soar.... Read More

The quick-setting gospel in Washington, D.C. last week was that any rollback of Roe v. Wade next year would trigger a Democratic revolt,... Read More

President Biden and congressional Democrats’ Build Back Better (BBB) Act is now in the hands of the Senate. That... Read More

Bob Dole tried and failed to reach the White House several times, but he leaves a powerful legacy as a war hero and senator who served the... Read More

Over the past 14 years, the Central Intelligence Agency has secretly amassed credible evidence that at least 10 of its employees and... Read More

While thoughts of the film industry evoke images of the historic Hollywood sign on Mount Lee overlooking the Los Angeles stars below, some... Read More

Friends raved when I started making hand-decorated sugar cookies for my children’s birthday parties in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. They... Read More

The recent Republican victory in the Virginia gubernatorial race and near-win in New Jersey dominated coverage of last month’s... Read More

“Until a decade ago, I performed research on the behavioral economics of philanthropy, and even wrote a textbook on nonprofit... Read More

America’s major institutions have gone woke the same way that someone goes bankrupt: slowly, then all at once. How is it that so many... Read More

I open the email at 9:30 a.m. in my retrofitted, windowless office on the second floor of a high school in St. Paul. The fluorescent lights... Read More

At least twice in U.S. history, big political shakeups occurred in midterm elections that served as endpoints to periods of crisis,... Read More

The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder released a report earlier this month containing 15 recommendations for... Read More

The present national debate over the indoctrination of public school students in controversial theories and practices — such... Read More

Eleven years ago, in response to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, Democrats rallied around a bill they hoped could... Read More

Women’s constitutional right to decide whether to bear children appears to be hanging by a thread. At yesterday’s oral argument... Read More

While the science community researches the newly discovered Omicron variant of Covid-19, treatments will become even more necessary where... Read More

Despite their name, non-profit hospitals build up wealth, take advantage of huge tax breaks, collect federal research grants, and pay their... Read More