Too many school boards act as if their job is to “support” the superintendent and staff—offering encouragement and deference, not impartial oversight.

The FTC’s use of antitrust law—real or threatened—to change platforms’ content-moderation decisions confronts important First Amendment principles about editorial discretion, compelled speech, ...

In today’s debate over Israel, hatred wears the mask of justice. Scroll, march, or listen on campus—everywhere, the same word appears in red: genocide. This idea is not only false; it is obscene. To ...

Artificial intelligence stocks are on a historic bull run, but the so far rally owes more to spreadsheets than science fiction. The run-up in valuations is still grounded in strong profits and ...

Good harvests, disruptions to international trade, and demand shifts have reduced recent and forecast prices for several important farm commodities, but other commodities continue to fare reasonably ...

Reactions to Beijing’s announcement and Trump’s tariff barking focused on the short-term. His reversal was also due to short-term concerns, in particular stocks. But the very serious problem is in the ...

This story begins this spring with a commentary we wrote for Obesity, thejournal of The Obesity Society (TOS). The subject of our critique was a manuscript, since published, titled “Gap of Women ...

Donald Trump has a knack for raising big strategic questions. The US president is massing military power in the Caribbean; he’s reportedly on the verge of approving a military strategy that ...

"Stablecoins—a new digital currency—present problems for Congress’s constitutional duty to regulate the coinage of money." ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Although President Trump has been accused of “always chickening out,” he has not shied away from applying pressure on countries ranging from Iran to Venezuela. In recent months, however, Trump has ...