The NCAA likes to say that all its student-athletes are “students first, athletes second.” And there’s a great deal of truth to that. Largely due to academic reforms enacted in 2003, graduation rates for NCAA athletes have risen from 74% in 2002 to an all-time high of 88% in 2018. But it’s also true that […]

Airplane passengers loathe being crammed together in coach and seethe when seatbacks are reclined onto their laps. But are these crowded conditions actually unsafe? Americans soon should find out. A 2018 funding bill gave the Federal Aviation Administration the authority to set minimum seat sizes as cabins shrink and body sizes grow. Federal regulations require […]

While most of Washington was on vacation in August, lobbyists for doctors were busy placing ads attacking the recent effort in Congress to end “surprise medical bills” — the practice of slapping unsuspecting patients with huge out-of-pocket charges they couldn’t see coming. The blitz might be working. Before the summer recess, committees in each chamber […]

Five states have announced plans to cancel their Republican presidential primaries, supposedly as a favor to President Donald Trump. This deprives Republican voters in five states of a voice in the 2020 nominating process and complicates efforts by Trump’s long-shot opponents to gain traction as the most controversial president in U.S. history faces the growing […]