Perrone: Unlike at Columbia, Trump’s attack on UCLA is aimed at taxpayer money
Giuliana Perrone President Donald Trump’s demand for a whopping $1 billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside,... Read more.
Mills: How to deal with the trolls
David Mills The poor guy got slapped around pretty badly, for the mistake of having an opinion some of his readers didn’t like. He got it in the comments section... Read more.
Stevens: Democrats need a creative approach to the midterm elections
Solomon D. Stevens Let’s face it. The Democratic Party is in disarray. It will not win the 2026 congressional midterm elections if it limits its message to condemning... Read more.
Fagan: The Heritage Foundation founder’s legacy is complicated
E.J. Fagan Edwin Feulner, the founder and longtime president of the Heritage Foundation, died last month. He will be remembered as one of the most consequential... Read more.
Frazier: Avoiding policy malpractice in the age of AI
Kevin Frazier Nature abhors a vacuum, rushing to fill it often chaotically. Policymakers, similarly, dislike a regulatory void. The urge to fill it with new laws... Read more.
Gongloff: The Earth is drying out and we need to act urgently
Mark Gongloff You might not believe it if you’ve experienced one of the flash floods hammering the planet from Texas to Vietnam this summer, but the Earth is becoming... Read more.
D’Agostino: Missile silo for sale? No real estate magic can erase the nuclear history.
Susan D’Agostino Way out in the Kansas prairie, 140 feet below ground, a concrete-lined relic of Cold War annihilation has received a literal — and metaphorical... Read more.
Crisp: Trump suits perfectly our national cognitive dissonance
John M. Crisp If nations can suffer from cognitive dissonance just as individuals can, it’s easy to see why we elected Donald Trump. A good place to start thinking... Read more.
Rowley: Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump has created a police state
Storer H. Rowley Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, a lawless president is solidifying his law enforcement powers to create something most Americans didn’t... Read more.
Banihashemi: What possibility is there for true reform in Iran?
Pegah Banihashemi A few weeks after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, several published statements have called for a referendum and a transition beyond the... Read more.