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In a country bitterly divided on virtually everything, from the major to the mundane, there’s one issue that could unite Republicans and Democrats: age limits.

An uncomfortable conversation about the acuity of aging ...Read more

Are the United States and Iran, adversaries for more than 45 years, on the cusp of striking a new nuclear agreement?

After two rounds of indirect diplomacy between high-ranking officials of the two powers, it’s still ...Read more

On Sept. 11, 2014, at the annual meeting of the Jewish Federation of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George told the audience: “Before I went to the Conclave of the College of Cardinals this past February to elect a successor ...Read more

In a time roiled with fear, division and rancor, the loss of Pope Francis is a cruel and stunning blow. The pontiff — who died early Monday morning at the age of 88, after celebrating Holy Week — made a deep and ...Read more

Donald Trump announced his first run for president on June 16, 2015. He lashed out against Mexican immigrants, environmentalists and other supposed enemies foreign and domestic.

Two days later, Pope Francis clapped back. ...Read more

If I believed in miracles as strongly as I did as a Catholic school student, I could hope that Vice President JD Vance would be transformed by his audience with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday just hours before the pope died...Read more

Before basketball’s 24-second rule, there was a tactic called freezing the ball. The team that was ahead would attempt to run out the clock by holding onto the ball as long as it could to deny the opposing team an ...Read more

For now, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living legally in the U.S. and South Florida have gotten a reprieve after the courts put on hold the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to revoke their Temporary ...Read more

In 1805, New York made a deal. State officials granted taxpayer funds and a corporate charter to a private organization known as the Free School Society, which agreed in return to provide a free education to poor children ...Read more

Thank you to state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli for publishing an analysis of the balance of payments between the 50 states and the federal government. This is his ninth annual review, continuing a tradition that began when ...Read more

More than a dozen private companies around the world are looking to profit from extreme measures to combat global warming — filling the sky with sunlight-blocking particles, brightening clouds or changing the chemistry ...Read more

In 1992, the new Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Barry was commissioned. A powerful warship of over 9,000 tons, she is still in service and carries a formidable array of offensive and defensive weaponry. ...Read more

America is having a Liz Truss moment. The problem is that America doesn’t have a Liz Truss solution.

Let me take you back to the fall of 2022 when the United Kingdom experienced its own version of political whiplash. In...Read more

Every archaeologist remembers the first time they came to a layer of blackened dirt while excavating. For me it was at Tel Halif, in southern Israel. I was crouching in a hole; the dig’s director spotted the dark soil ...Read more

If the government shouldn’t be in your bedroom, why is it spying on your bathroom?

This month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing the federal government’s definition of “showerhead.” That ...Read more

Here’s an SAT-style question that college administrators should be required to answer: What is the best predictor of a student’s academic success at an elite college?

A) Family income.

B) Skin color.

C) High school ...Read more