Opinion

American forces may be leaving Afghanistan by the end of this year, but the threat to the brave Afghans who helped the United States remains and will only worsen without our presence on the ground. 

While widespread vaccination use is the lynchpin to ending the COVID pandemic, relying on a single intervention is a public health gamble.

While COVID-19 has tested all of us, it also reinforced the resiliency of the private sector and the value it provides to millions of Americans.

Addressing misconceptions helps people understand that climate change is real, serious and explain why solutions are needed.

The U.S. Forest Service, which manages more than 190 million acres of public land, has been slower than other federal agencies to embrace data over dogma.

That outcome depends on the GOP pursuing intelligent policies and not committing fratricide. 

If your spouse dies or divorce leads to single parenthood, Republicans deem you morally unworthy of their “marriage bonus.”

The Mozambique government’s petty corruption and ineptitude may present the Islamic State an opportunity to reassert itself.

Washington needs to expand its political and economic engagement with the Central Asian states by promoting their peace-making potential.

A strong bipartisan majority in Congress wants to kill the pipeline, but Biden has been reluctant to take action.

President Biden last month sought to fulfill a campaign promise on ghost guns by proposing a set of regulations requiring retailers to run background checks before selling the kits for homemade manufacture.

We need a strategy that is effective at deterring, rather than simply punishing, an unacceptable threat to the global order.

By declaring troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. 11, Biden removed the last possible justification for the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force. 

The FBI cannot afford to be perceived as politically influenced by suddenly pursuing a Foreign Agent Registration Act investigation.

The long shadow of racial prejudice continues to fall across the discussion of the death penalty in the U.S.

The controversy over Facebook’s actions to exile former President Trump from its platform (or lack thereof) may well be just the latest in what look to be a series of close encounters with the death of democracy. 

Biden needs to focus on the leadership race taking place at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

The Federal Reserve has broken with its previous approach to monetary policy to an extent that few people realize.

If adopted on a wide scale, a presumption of prohibition would cause incalculable damage to society.

Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary acknowledged that the U.S. is facing the biggest surge in illegal border crossings in 20 years.

He can protect survivors by simply vacating Sessions’ decision and related asylum rulings from Trump’s DOJ. There's precedent

For decades, courts have denied a man on death row in Alabama the opportunity to prove his intellectual disability.

Last week alone, governors of seven states signed laws that restrict or defy abortion rights under Roe — ripe for the new conservative Supreme Court.

OPINION: The South Carolina senator’s best beliefs are opposed by most of his GOP colleagues.

The heinous and racist language directed at Scott was an attempt to silence dissent and to reject open and thoughtful discourse.

As the pandemic has demonstrated, we can’t afford to allow the best interests of our nation’s children get lost in the fight to score political points.

What’s the point of this “holiday,” especially when, for many, it dredges up old memories of lost mothers, estrangement or related sadness?

SMBs need easy access to cybersecurity resources, support from the federal government and prescriptive and simple-to-adopt programs and approaches that impact their everyday operations.

DOE is a federal agency with one of the most effective cybersecurity programs, but there is more to be done.