Even if you didn’t go to college in Illinois, odds are you’ve benefited from someone who got a degree from one of our universities.

Maybe your Northwestern cardiologist helped you get back on your feet. Or a University of Illinois-trained engineer built the bridge you cross every day to get to work. Or a union electrician who got your ...Read more

I’ve spent more than two-thirds of a century (since 1958) at American universities. Never in all those years has their earned and deserved reputation as the best in the world suffered bigger threats than today.

U.S. colleges and universities not only have behaved abysmally, but they’re now paying a high price for showing contempt for the ...Read more

“Fraud” doesn’t begin to cover it. Under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch, Minnesota has become the hub of an exorbitant federal fund money-laundering scheme.

Updated reports reflect nearly 100 individuals, the majority being Somali immigrants, have been charged for involvement in a fraud scandal that cost American taxpayers billions. The silver ...Read more

More than 60 leaders of some of Minnesota’s largest companies broke their silence over ICE’s immigration crackdown that’s wreaking havoc in Minneapolis, releasing a public letter over the weekend calling for “an immediate deescalation of tensions.”

CEOs, you’re getting warmer.

The letter did not once mention ICE, nor Renee Good and...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Katie Porter's still standing, which is saying something.

The last time a significant number of people tuned into California's low-frequency race for governor was in October, when Porter's political obituary was being written in bold type.

Immediately after a snappish and off-putting TV interview, Porter showed up in a years...Read more

When Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as New York City’s mayor on Jan. 1 at age 34, it became impossible to ignore that a new generation is no longer waiting its turn. That new generation is now governing. America is entering an era where “young leadership” is no longer a novelty, but a pipeline.

Our research at Future Caucus found a 170% ...Read more

American higher education can and must be reformed. If we are genuinely serious about restoring higher education to its proper function, it will look little like it does today.

First, we need to restore full-time faculty to their role as teachers, and restore “general education” to the place it once held in molding adolescents into adults ...Read more

It doesn’t take artificial intelligence to deduce why so many power plants have shut down recently.

Across the country, rising electricity prices are a major concern. This is especially true for states in the Northeast and California. In New Jersey, some residents faced cost increases of around 20 percent last year. Nationally, December power...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS -- Believe your eyes.

That’s what prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said in his opening statement on March 29, 2021, to the jurors who would decide whether Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

“You can believe your eyes, that it’s homicide, it’s murder,” said Blackwell, now a U.S. District Court judge....Read more

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, guarantees each person the freedom to speak out, untethered by government, in addition to freedom of the press. Yet our society has morphed into a segregated form of free speech that erodes the very essence of such freedom.

Terms like “hate speech” and “ racism�...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recently proposed 2026-27 state budget included a pleasant surprise: a deficit of about $3 billion — significantly less than analysts had estimated. But when it comes to California state budgets, good news rarely lasts. Newsom’s own estimates warn that the deficit may reach $22 billion in the following fiscal year.

It ...Read more

Federal agents fatally shot another American in Minneapolis on Saturday: 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Minnesota VA hospital. Pretti was observing immigration operations and stepped in when an agent threw a woman to the ground. He was tackled by several U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who repeatedly struck him before ...Read more

President Donald Trump claims that birthright citizenship isn’t that: a birthright. He wants the authority to revoke the citizenship of U.S.-born children of immigrants here illegally and visitors here temporarily.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on birthright citizenship this spring. It will likely hand down a ruling by summer. Before ...Read more

I gave up drinking on Jan. 20, 2025. What has a year without alcohol been like? And has it been worth it?

The world is certainly a more accommodating place for abstainers. But my memories run deep. I still frequent my favorite wine bars where I listen longingly as the sommeliers describe vintages to other customers. It’s like poetry — ...Read more

It should come as little surprise that Bill and Hillary Clinton have defied subpoenas to testify in the U.S. House probe of Jeffrey Epstein. But the fact that even many Democrats have criticized their failure to appear should be a warning to the power couple.

Bill Clinton has a history of thumbing his nose at the legal process. In 1998, he ...Read more

They are leading student walkouts, delivering groceries to frightened families and checking in on friends who are no longer going to school.

Some are the children of undocumented immigrants, putting food on the table because their parents can’t risk leaving the house for work.

As President Donald Trump’s ICE crackdown intensifies in ...Read more

Days after President Donald Trump dropped his tariff threat against eight European countries over their opposition to the United States acquiring Greenland, the self-proclaimed “tariff man” instituted another warning against yet another ally: Canada. “If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against ...Read more

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and the local Minneapolis county attorney’s office shouldn’t have had to sue the federal government for access to the evidence from Saturday’s fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents, but in the age of President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, it was ...Read more