25 Years After 9/11, Has New York Healed, or Has Remembrance Become Another Political Battlefield?
The city must never forget those it lost. But remembrance should unite Americans, not become a test of their religion, politics, or right to belong. Twenty-five years have passed, yet every Sept. 11, New York seems to awaken inside the same terrible morning. The names are read aloud, bells ring, and families clutch photographs of […]
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Three Children Are Dead. But Will the Law Call Their Mother a Murderer?
A deadlocked Massachusetts jury, a disputed holdout juror and an extraordinary insanity defense have turned the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy into a profound test of criminal responsibility, mental illness and the meaning of justice. Three children are dead, and that is the one fact in the Lindsay Clancy case about which there […]
What America’s Wealthiest Can Learn From Dolly Parton’s Life of Service.
Dolly Parton spent much of her life surrounded by wealth, fame, and some of the most powerful people in entertainment. Yet when she died Tuesday at 80, the story of the girl who came out of poverty in the mountains of Tennessee remained inseparable from the superstar she became. She remembered the crowded home. She […]
Trump, Ossoff and the Politics of Distraction: A Personal Feud With 2028 Implications
What began as a blistering attack on President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the country has turned into something far more personal and potentially more consequential. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia, fighting for reelection in one of America’s most important battleground states, has increasingly positioned himself as one of Trump’s sharpest Democratic critics. But during an […]
Mangione Admits Killing UnitedHealthcare CEO, Setting Up a High-Stakes Double Jeopardy Fight in New York
Luigi Mangione walked into a Manhattan federal courtroom Friday facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. What he said there dramatically changed one criminal case, and may have thrown another into constitutional turmoil. For the first time in court, Mangione publicly admitted that he killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. “On […]
Has President Tinubu’s Government Drifted Toward Authoritarianism?
A Nation Asking Difficult Questions: Has President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government begun to drift toward authoritarianism? That is a question increasingly being asked by many Nigerians who believe the country’s democratic institutions are under growing pressure. Whether one agrees with that conclusion or not, the debate itself reflects a deeper national anxiety: Are Nigeria’s institutions […]
Fauci Invokes the Fifth as Senate COVID Hearing Reignites America’s Pandemic Reckoning
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the physician who became the public face of America’s COVID-19 response, returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday under dramatically different circumstances than during the pandemic’s darkest days. Instead of defending public health policy, the 85-year-old former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invoked the Fifth Amendment more than […]
Trump’s Saudi Nuclear Gamble: How a Surprise Israel Demand Upended a Landmark Deal
Barely 24 hours after celebrating what was billed as a historic breakthrough with Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump stunned diplomats, lawmakers and even some members of his own administration by effectively putting the agreement on hold. The reason had little to do with nuclear technology. Instead, Trump declared that the United States would move forward […]
The U.S. Election System: Is Trump Trying to Fix Something That Isn’t Broken?
For more than two centuries, the United States has marketed democracy not merely as a political system but as one of its defining national exports. From post-war Europe to post-apartheid South Africa, from Eastern Europe after the Cold War to fragile democracies across Africa, American diplomats have promoted elections, constitutional government, and the peaceful transfer […]
Lindsey Graham: The Orphan Who Became One of America’s Most Influential, and Polarizing, Political Voices
Few figures in modern American politics inspired as much admiration, frustration, and fascination as Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. To supporters, he was a patriot whose worldview was shaped by sacrifice, military service, and an unwavering belief that American leadership should extend far beyond its borders. To critics, he embodied Washington’s political contradictions, […]