SocietyCommentary
WASHINGTON—“I realized I am a guinea pig,” Forrest Smith said of his transition from male to female at age 19. After five years, Smith detransitioned…. Read More
Education Commentary
WASHINGTON—Kudos to President Donald Trump’s administration for canceling $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University “due to the school’s continued inaction in the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
WASHINGTON–When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID-19 lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus–which he saw as an incitement… Read More
SocietyCommentary
WASHINGTON—Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos sent a wake-up call to Big Media Wednesday when he announced on X “a change coming to our opinion pages.”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
WASHINGTON—What did President Donald Trump learn during his four-year hiatus from the White House? For one thing, he seems to have learned how to listen…. Read More
SecurityCommentary
Actress Sara Foster captured the rage of many Angelenos who have watched their city burn from the Palisades to Altadena in one social media post:… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Embrace the chaos—that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Wall Street Journal ran a story Thursday under the banner “How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge.” Tuesday’s New York… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
President-elect Donald Trump said so many things on the campaign trail that critics warned would hurt him in November. Yet he won the popular vote…. Read More
EconomyCommentary
WASHINGTON—“Washington is still operating as if it’s March 2020. The headquarters of most agencies remain largely abandoned,” Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, wrote in a report… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
WASHINGTON—There’s been a change in Washington since Donald Trump won the election. Democrats have begun to wonder about some of their more extreme messages. The… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
“My Mom Voted for Trump. Can We Let It Go?” Read the headline for The New York Times’ “The Ethicist” piece Friday. The family dynamic… Read More
LawCommentary
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon is the sort of progressive prosecutor who thinks it is his job to curb mass incarceration. Last week,… Read More
It’s been a little over a week since the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget sent a letter to Kamala Harris and Donald Trump suggesting… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This time the oddsmakers got it wrong. Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was their betting favorite going into Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate, but Republican… Read More
International Commentary
WASHINGTON—A reporter asked President Joe Biden if he thought Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “doing enough” as the president returned to the White House… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
CHICAGO—As delegates and the media descend on the Windy City for the Democratic National Convention, Kamala Harris not only has to energize the base; she… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
This is how much Elon Musk spooks big media. At Monday’s White House press briefing, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden’s letter announcing that he is standing down from the general election documented all the reasons the incumbent had to go. But it’s… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
I can’t tell you how many people I know who do not like former President Donald Trump yet nonetheless smell prosecutorial overreach in Manhattan. Manhattan… Read More
