Opinion

Education leaders must resist the temptation to simply do more of what they have always done.

Graduating high school and college seniors take with them more than they may realize: The past two years will leave their mark.

The decline in enrollment after Donald Trump’s election in 2016 cost the U.S. economy $11.8 billion and over 65,000 jobs.

The bottom line with deportation is remarkably simple: it is a brutal and cruel practice.

If the private sector cares about democracy and racial justice, it should also care about voter suppression. 

Until the United States gets serious about the long-term threats of white supremacist violence, the frustrating cycle of violence, community-wide terror, calls for action and complacency will persist. 

The point is, to the extent the majority thinks that its game plan and political messaging efforts might be thrown-off by allowing greater minority participation in the process, the more it limits and even denies such activity. Increasingly, the majority is pitching shut outs to team minority.

President Biden must work with Congress to update Supplemental Security Income for people with disabilities and seniors in the American Families Plan.

A focus on climate change provides clarity on the challenges we are facing and the opportunities to overcome them. With this renewed purpose, we must reconsider the role of nuclear energy.

Our government should work with the people — not with corporations — to ensure our solutions speak to the needs of the communities.

It is a measure of national security to keep census responses confidential.

If we are to successfully confront the challenges we face — from China, climate change and to the fraying of our social fabric — we will need a national "can-do" spirit.

When immersed in turbulent political waters, experienced politicians know to hold their cards to their chests and consider all obstacles.

The federal government has never had a central figure in charge of manufacturing, someone who wakes up every day, or even lies awake at night, thinking about the key manufacturing questions.

Lawmakers should build on this fix to the budget process by cracking down on “poison pill” appropriations riders, a gimmick that proliferated in the vacuum left by the earmark ban.

Financing an item with funds paid by its users encourages infrastructure to be built where people are going to use it.

There's precedent for a better solution: returning the city back to Maryland, the state from which it was ceded in 1790. 

For now, the 2024 field is forced to acquiesce while a defeated, elderly, twice-impeached former president decides whether to run again. 

If Americans want concrete police reform, they must begin by electing people who will make changes on the streets on day one of their jobs. This includes sheriffs.

America may not be able to oppose Moscow in Syria without hurting its relations with Middle Eastern partners.

The U.S. has the opportunity to address the fundamental root cause of migration versus treating festering symptoms alone.

Such deals raise alarms about the work on the bench.

Any legislation to alter the size of the Supreme Court should include a provision that it will not take effect until after the next presidential election.

The FDA has the authority and the evidence base to ban menthol cigarettes and sharply reduce nicotine levels in all cigarettes.

The development of preventative therapies for age-related chronic diseases is a significant biological challenge, but a necessary one.

The government should consider the benefits, and not merely the costs, of subsidizing American universities that reject applications of PRC students.

With President Biden ordering our departure from Afghanistan, bin Laden’s ghost, and the overwrought fear of terrorism accompanying it, has finally been vanquished

The shift to remote and mobile connectivity that COVID accelerated is here to stay.

State-led and state-sponsored cyberattacks have transformed the internet into a new battlefield.