Every month or so, for the past few years, a new dire story has warned of how American children, from elementary school to college age, can no longer read. And every time I read one of these stories, I find myself conflicted. On the one hand, I am aware that every generation complains that the […]

Editor’s note, July 9, 2025, 10:45 am ET: On July 9, Red Bull’s Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner was fired. His removal followed a tough year for the team, one that saw dwindling performance, high turnover of critical engineers, staff and drivers, and rumors about the potential exit of four-time world champ Max Verstappen. […]

Amid all the controversies of President Donald Trump’s second term so far, the one that may be causing him the biggest problems among his right-wing base is about a man who died six years ago: Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein, the well-connected financier who was indicted for sex trafficking underage girls and died in prison in 2019, […]

In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part, because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretching out into the hills beyond. But a little over a year into homeownership, I was questioning the […]

Prior to Kanye West, Lawrence Dennis was America’s most famous Black fascist. Born in 1893, Dennis had European features and light skin that allowed him to pass for white, which he did for nearly his entire life. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, served in the US military and diplomatic corps in the […]