For the second time in two years, Texas is experiencing a significant measles outbreak.  But unlike last year’s outbreak in the South Plains, there’s little information available about the new surge because it erupted at…

For the 20th consecutive year, the world continues to become less free, and Freedom House’s latest report doesn’t waste time in sounding the alarm. It’s in the report’s title: “Freedom in the World 2026: The…

After Venezuela and Iran, what’s another U.S. military incursion? President Donald Trump said a few days ago that he will be “having the honor of taking Cuba” and that he can do “anything” he wants…

Thanks goodness that Boston Federal Judge Brian Murphy has stopped some of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine insanity, reversing the Health and Human Services secretary’s dangerous and destructive effort to drop hepatitis A, hepatitis B,…

The reconstitution of the Republican Party from the nation’s conservative redoubt into an instrument of one man’s will is almost totally complete. Sen. John Cornyn has just added another line to the GOP obituary with…

President Donald Trump had good cause to fire Kristi Noem last week from being homeland security secretary, giving her the ax via social media post, with Trump announcing that she was being replaced by Oklahoma…

The weekend attack on Iran by the United States and Israel can be viewed not as the start of a new war, but rather a fresh battle in the four-decade war on terror, of which…

Saturday’s campaign by the United States and Israel to rid the world of Iran’s despotic leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has turned into a full-fledged war and is growing by the hour. President Donald Trump said…

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei governed Iran with the vigilance and brutality of an autocrat convinced that his own people and the world’s superpower sought to unseat him — and in the end, they did.  With President…

The menagerie at the Department of Health and Human Services keeps getting stranger. President Trump’s nominee for Surgeon General, Casey Means, auditioned Wednesday for the role of vaccine skeptic at her Senate confirmation hearing. The…