The federal government recently released new dietary guidelines aimed at “ending the war on protein” and steering Americans toward “real foods” — those with few ingredients and no additives. Seafood plays a starring role. But the fish that health advocates envision appearing on our plates probably won’t be caught in the crystal blue ...Read more

Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We commemorate them in speeches and street names, reassuring ourselves that their struggles belong safely to the past. But history tells a less comforting story.

We tend to celebrate Black moral courage only after it has been stripped of ...Read more

Whatever their views on immigration enforcement, Minnesotans should welcome the announcement by border czar Tom Homan on Feb. 12 that Operation Metro Surge soon will end, and that a significant drawdown of the more than 3,000 agents who had been sent to the state under federal orders is underway.

They should also welcome the vow by Gov. Tim ...Read more

Do you remember what it was like to be bored — like really bored? As a Gen Xer, I didn’t grow up scrolling social media or playing endless hours of “Minecraft” to keep me busy; instead, I spent a fair amount of my free time after school crafting the perfect prank call.

Armed with an oversized White or Yellow Pages, a rotary phone and a...Read more

If there’s any chance Nancy Guthrie’s assailant will not be found, it won’t be for lack of awareness. Her disappearance has mobilized extraordinary attention nationwide.

It’s heartbreaking to think the 84-year-old Arizona woman — the mother of Savannah Guthrie, co-host of NBC’s Today Show — might still be held against her will in ...Read more

Mehmet Oz is not an economist, but he occasionally plays one on TV. Speaking recently at a televised forum on mental health, the medical doctor and administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed an idea for how to boost the U.S. economy: Americans should just work longer. Adding a year of work would generate $3 ...Read more

Billionaires are now Public Enemy No. 1 in America. Majorities of voters, in both parties, think the gap between the rich and poor is a big problem and that the rich have too much power. To be fair, this economy does seem to be making a lot of people anxious and unhappy, but it’s not Elon Musk or Marc Zuckerberg’s fault. If anyone is to ...Read more

In November 2023 and more than 15 billion miles from Earth, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, started sending gibberish back to mission control. The signals received from Voyager are only one ten-quadrillionth of a watt strong, or about one twenty-billionth of the power of a digital watch. But those infinitesimal signals still transmit valuable ...Read more

U.S. schools spent $30 billion on educational technology in 2024, roughly 10 times the amount they spent on textbooks. By one estimate, this sum could double in six years. Yet as children spend more time on school-issued screens, learning is deteriorating. Before spending another dime, school districts should rethink this “edtech” experiment...Read more

The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to turn away Moderna’s application for a new flu shot for older Americans is a troubling development in health officials’ piecemeal dismantling of the U.S. vaccine infrastructure.

The biotech firm’s shot had been tested in a huge, late-stage trial of more than 40,000 adults aged 50 and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Carlos Aranibar is a former Downey public works commissioner and remains involved in local Democratic politics. But until a few weeks ago, the son of Bolivian and Mexican immigrants hadn't joined any actions against the immigration raids that have overwhelmed Southern California.

Life always seemed to get in the way. Downey hadn...Read more

Tucker Carlson says liberal cities such as Minneapolis are pushing America toward disaster and civil war. The uncomfortable truth is that his argument helps normalize the very use of federal force that makes democratic breakdown more likely.

Carlson’s narrative is emotionally charged — warning of spiraling “chaos” if the liberal cities ...Read more

It’s hard not to marvel at how America’s capital markets have rallied to finance the artificial intelligence boom. If all goes as expected, “hyperscalers” such as Meta Platforms Inc. will invest more than $3 trillion through 2030 in data and power infrastructure. It’s an endeavor orders of magnitude greater than the Manhattan Project, ...Read more

Los Angeles is racing at breakneck speed to rebuild after the most destructive fire in the city’s history. It’s a pace so publicly tethered to the 2028 Summer Olympics that Gov. Gavin Newsom referred to the global event as the “Recovery Games.”

But in the sprint for gold, public safety is being sidelined. This massive rebuild is now ...Read more