Editorials

The deaths of 19 students and two teachers in a mass shooting at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary showed Texas that it wasn’t doing enough to keep kids safe in school. Almost three years later, it still…

Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs — and by Mr. Trump’s own hand.  Witness the agreement Monday morning to scale back his punitive…

In its effort to increase deportations of migrants, the Trump administration announced Tuesday evening that it would send planeloads to the north African country of Libya.  That appeared to be news to Libya. Run by…

Whatever you think of the National Endowment for the Arts, or federal funding of the arts more generally, surely reasonable Americans all can agree that government agencies should not claw back previously approved grants when…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing whatever he can to undermine public health. Last week, he ordered his department to undertake a search for alternative measles treatments as the disease…

President Trump last week conceded that his border taxes are economically damaging by softening the blow for auto makers. Or as he put it in a Michigan speech, believe it or not: “We gave them…

President Trump seems to be moving toward a new realism about Ukraine and Russia, and the mineral deal he signed Wednesday with Kyiv is a welcome step. The deal appears to serve the national interests…

President Trump on Wednesday unleashed another broadside against Ukraine, and his dislike for President Volodymyr Zelensky isn’t news. But what matters to U.S. interests — and Mr. Trump’s Presidency — are the terms of a…

Last week, Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kansas, visited the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador on a Congressional junket. On the government’s dime, Estes and six other Republican members of Congress participated in the trip. Despite…

Those wondering how to get smartphones out of schools now have an example in Virginia. This month the state’s Democratic-led General Assembly passed legislation mandating cellphone-free education in K-12 public schools. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin…