To check President Trump’s growing grip on the judiciary in the midterms or to advance a legislative agenda in 2029, Democrats need to answer a very difficult question: How can the party keep winning in…

There is a surplus of darkness in our world, by which I am referring not only to the season in the Northern Hemisphere, but also to the deadly attack on Bondi Beach in Australia.  No,…

Government officials and education experts are right to express concerns about recent evidence of declining academic achievement among the students who struggle most. Researchers are exploring potential reasons behind this decline, including pandemic-era learning loss…

Fred’s mother died from cancer. Her brother and sister did too, like their parents. Fred was in treatment; unsurprisingly, he inherited the cancer. Tragically, Fred died one week after his third radiation treatment. The police…

The holiday season is a time to consider a generous gift to those in need, such as a food bank, a homeless shelter or perhaps the athletic department at your alma mater to help finance…

It’s a rare occasion when my worlds of biomedical informatics and serialized lesbian melodrama fandom collide. But that’s exactly what happened earlier this summer when two of my favorite actresses appeared on a popular podcast.…

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t recommend perusing the annual National Security Strategy of the United States of America. It generally summarizes the foreign policy direction in which the current administration is headed, and makes for lengthy, dry…

It might seem improbable today, given the Trump administration’s penchant for brazenly bullying federal employees, but half a century ago my father-in-law, a federal employee, resisted an order from the Nixon White House — and…

In 34 years representing car-crash victims, I’ve heard the same story over and over, with varying details — the driver at fault was texting, had consumed “just two drinks,” fell into a late-night doze. But…

As has been widely speculated, Monday brought news that the Trump administration will provide $12 billion  in bailouts to farmers, with an emphasis on corn and soybean growers.  Only a small portion may go to…