The United States is now four summers into a pattern it can no longer call unprecedented. Each summer from 2023 to today, we’ve had Canadian wildfire smoke cross the border and trigger air quality emergencies across a widening swath of the country. What began as Manhattan’s skyline ...

I’m not alone in feeling powerless when I hear another heartbreaking story about a young person struggling with anxiety, depression or loneliness. First, ask yourself, “What happened?” Then, “What can I do about it?” When the challenges are this serious, it is understandable ...

While America’s pursuit of rare earth metals makes the most headlines, the Trump administration turned the spotlight on the nation’s biggest mining export success: Coal. For rare earths, the primary challenge is building domestic processing capacity to reduce dependence on Chinese ...

In the aftermath of the savings-and-loan crisis, Congress passed the Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990. Buried inside was a provision prosecutors call the “financial kingpin” statute. Modeled on the laws used to topple drug cartels, it ...

With the celebrations over, a hard question remains: What does history ask of us when we must act before we know how events will turn out? In Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, he first wrote “our fellow subjects.” While the ink was wet, he erased ...

Women nationwide are thriving in ways previous generations could only imagine, but in one area, progress has stalled: maternal health. The United States now lags behind its peer nations, and the federal government’s launch of moms.govreflects a growing recognition that American women need ...