by Adam Frank Are we alone? Is life around us a cosmic accident that only happened once on this lonely planet, making human beings the only technological civilization anywhere? Or […]
Opinion
School board elections could make (or break) our democracy
by Julie Marsh, Pedro Noguera and Miguel Casar Rodriguez School boards across America are under attack. We have all seen the disruptions at school board meetings triggered by clashes over […]
New speaker on to something with debt commission
Getting the nation’s soaring debt under control should be a national priority. But many special-interest groups don’t agree. Recently, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson told his colleagues that he […]
Crooked lawyers were crucial to Trump’s plot. Reform the profession
by Margaret Tarkington Over the last few weeks, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, three lawyers central to Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in […]
New poll exposes flaw in Trump opponents’ plan
by Byron York The headline from a new Des Moines Register-NBC News poll of Iowa is that former President Donald Trump still has a big lead in the Republican race. […]
Keep online drama from going IRL
Many were likely shocked, though perhaps not surprised, by the story of an online fight that ended in real-world violence in Westover, with an 18-year-old in police custody and charged […]
Nov. 5 letters to the editor
Schools can’t always offer career readiness In the letter to the editor “Schools should offer better career readiness” (DP-10-22-23), the author says the schools of West Virginia should up their […]
Fates of Israel, Palestinians are inextricably bound together
by Daniel Bral War and conflict are almost invariably zero-sum games. What makes war so unforgiving, even oddly unifying, is that there is a shared experience of irreparable pain, loss, […]
We treat mass shootings like natural disasters
by Peter Hanink America witnessed yet another mass shooting on Wednesday, Oct. 25, this time in the small city of Lewiston, Maine. While people were shocked by the scale and […]
Will media get coverage of the crisis in Israel and Gaza right? It depends on the editors
by Jonah Goldberg If you ask most people, including most journalists, what the job of the press is, they will reasonably respond with a number of high-minded cliches: “report the […]
