Every morning as I bring my daughter to school, I worry for her safety. Like many parents, I would do anything to protect her. Yet the fact is that gun violence in the United States is not an avoidable problem — it is woven into our daily lives, a constant source of stress and vigilance.

Just a few weeks ago, my 6-year-old daughter came home ...Read more

Starbucks has declared itself “all in on protein.” Beginning this month, customers can order Protein Lattes and Protein Matchas, or add Protein Cold Foam to their cold brews and Frappuccinos, turning a daily caffeine ritual into something resembling a workout supplement.

This isn’t simply about menu items. It signals how deeply the ...Read more

Barbara Boxer decided she was done. Entering her 70s, fresh off reelection to the U.S. Senate, she determined her fourth term would be her last.

"I just felt it was time," Boxer said. "I wanted to do other things."

Besides, she knew the Democratic bench was amply stocked with many bright prospects, including California's then-attorney general,...Read more

In recent weeks, American politics have stopped resembling a democracy and started looking more like a Manson family group chat, with a flag emoji right next to the “pile of poo” emoji in our bio.

First it was the Young Republicans (you know, the nerds who used to wear ill-fitting sports jackets and drone on about budgets) who were caught ...Read more

Upheaval is threatening the stabilizing course of China-U.S. relations. On Oct. 10, U.S. President Donald Trump published an unusually long post on Truth Social, threatening to impose 100% tariffs on all Chinese products and restrict China-bound exports of critical software starting Nov. 1, in retaliation for what he calls “extremely hostile�...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s anti-Trump, anti-Texas congressional redistricting gamble seems about to pay off.

Newsom’s bet on Proposition 50 is looking like a winner, although we won’t really know until the vote count is released starting election night Nov. 4.

Insiders closely watching the high-stakes campaign would be ...Read more

Just as the political health of a nation requires trust in elected officials, the physical and mental health of Americans depends on the trust embedded in the doctor-patient relationship.

For most of the past century, that bond was ironclad. Now, that relationship is fraying.

Gallup polling shows just 44% of Americans rate the quality of care ...Read more

Call it industrial policy, state capitalism, old-fashioned socialism: It’s a bad idea. Across several recent administrations, the U.S. government’s role in the economy has grown increasingly intrusive. The current White House has taken things to an extreme. It’s a tried-and-failed experiment that should be scrapped before it does any more ...Read more

After surviving three types of cancer and having to face the harsh realities of colorectal and endometrial cancer and basal cell carcinoma, I know just how crucial early detection can be in saving lives.

My cancer journey has been an extensive and painful one, but it has also strengthened my resolve. It has inspired me to become an advocate ...Read more

If there's one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, it's that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's partner in crime, should never, ever be considered for the pardon or commutation that President Trump has hinted at.

Trump violated all of Maxwell's many victims when he inexcusably allowed her to be...Read more

Donald Trump appears to have finally fallen out of love with Vladimir Putin, which is good news, long time coming.

If you cut through all of the back-and-forth over the past week regarding the war in Ukraine, the central issue remains the same. And unresolved.

Putin invaded a sovereign nation. That country fought back harder than the Russian ...Read more

Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemitism. But he stumbles and dodges when asked to venture beyond his surface-level focus on affordability and his four, and only four, narrow planks: child care, ...Read more

For more than two decades, the U.S.-China trading relationship has been at the center of globalization’s story: low-cost goods for American consumers, rapid growth for China and an intricate web of supply chains binding the world’s two largest economies together. The Chinese people — hardworking, innovative and industrious — have been ...Read more

A week before I gave birth last February, the research team I work with published a study in a prominent scientific journal on how paid family leave affects maternal and child health. The study found that having access to paid family leave led to a decrease in postpartum depression and an increase in the number of weeks babies are breastfed.

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The scenes have been all over the news.

In Colorado, ICE smashes the window of a car with a 1-month-old inside, his mother crying out, “There’s a baby in here!”

A family of four in Chicago is surrounded at Millennium Park by heavily armed and masked immigration agents, while the 8-year-old daughter clutches her doll and sobs. The mother ...Read more

The governor of Utah has a problem. The Great Salt Lake is shrinking, and a dry lakebed threatens to send arsenic-laced dust plumes across the state’s most populated areas.

Gov. Spencer Cox has risen to national prominence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s horrific slaying at Utah Valley University last month by calling on Americans to tone ...Read more

As President Donald Trump could have told you long ago, no international figure knows how to charm a visiting American like that other fellow who has been sharing the world stage with him for years.

But none of that was obvious on a night way back in 2010, in St. Petersburg, Russia. An audience studded with imported Hollywood stars had settled...Read more

The NCAA picked a hell of a week to get into the gambling business, didn't it?

Within 24 hours of approving a rule change that will allow student athletes and athletic department staff to bet only on professional sports, the FBI arrested more than 30 people in connection with a major sports gambling and betting scheme. The level of ...Read more