It’s a new year but the same old mess in Congress. Instead of a fresh start, lawmakers return next week to their stale, dead-end arguments and legislative gridlock. And by now the reason they’re mired in the mess is an old story: Repeatedly in 2023, we saw the dysfunction of the MAGA Republicans who narrowly […]

The university at its best must be a place where stakeholders can disagree with a viewpoint without consequence, except for the possibility of learning.

Children thrive when their parents have what they need to succeed. Likewise, if kids are doing well, it’s easier for the adults in their lives to make things work.

Instead of the patient study of cryptic matters, conspiracy theorists promise the interpretive keys to the kingdom to anyone able to open a Facebook account.

If Maine’s secretary of state is correct about what constitutes insurrection, several congressmen and senators may be illegally holding office.

As the historian Barbara Tuchman once wrote, war is the unfolding of miscalculations.