There are few things most American politicians seem to agree upon, but banning mobile phones in classrooms seems to be one of them. Based on the experiences of some schools that have required students to…

Fifteen years ago, when Arizona enacted a notorious anti-immigrant “show me your papers” law, I wrote an essay in The Times that began, “I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon. Because I’m not going…

If Congress doesn’t act, the Social Security Trust Fund will be insolvent as soon as 2033, and millions of Americans who have been paying into the program will see a significant portion of their promised…

Whether or not you accept the sincerity of Sen. Josh Hawley’s recent New York Times op-ed, “Don’t Cut Medicaid,” after his vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill which, by Hawley’s…

The Kansas City Chiefs and Royals say they need more time to negotiate new stadium agreements with Kansas.  Monday, predictably, the state extended the deadline for stadium talks with both clubs.  It isn’t clear why…

Harriet Tubman never formally enlisted in the U.S. military. She was a war hero nonetheless. Many Americans know Tubman for her courage and sacrifice as conductor of the Underground Railroad, but fewer recognize her as…

It’s hard to imagine us complaining about tourists crowding our favorite haunts. Maybe once the Lehigh Portland State Park gets in full swing, we’ll see longer lines at restaurants and gas stations. Hope so. It’d…

I never expected to go on Medicaid. I grew up in a comfortable household, had worked since high school, and was a generally healthy 24-year-old public policy graduate student. I also never expected the stubborn…

In coming weeks, our news feeds will be loaded with stories on the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the nation’s Medicaid program. Already, we’ve heard stories about non-U.S. citizens…

I’m going to tell you how the people in charge of my country made the truth a crime. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s longtime president, has spent about three decades destroying our country’s fragile democratic institutions: elections,…