Erma Bombeck famously said, "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." This quote really resonates with me. Last fall, I quit my job as a newspaper editor to put my effort into writing stories that lift up the good in this world. I wrote in my column announcement that "I ...

Erma Bombeck famously said, "It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else." This quote really resonates with me. Last fall, I quit my job as a newspaper editor to put my effort into writing stories that lift up the good in this world. I wrote in my column announcement that "I ...

In the course of three days, six U.S.-based scientists have won Nobel Prizes. Every one of them studied or now works at America's public universities. Five were affiliated with or educated by California's system for higher education. President Donald Trump's assault on universities, both ...

At the heart of the budget standoff that has the government shut down is Democrats' insistence on extracting a laundry list of policy changes, including locking in the supposedly temporary, COVID-19-era expansion of Obamacare premium tax credits (or "Biden COVID-19 credits"). In essence, ...

Donald Trump wanted an excuse to send National Guard troops to Chicago, and now he's got it. The Windy City in recent days has done its best imitation of Los Angeles, where resistance to ICE operations created the justification for a Guard deployment a couple of months ago. Illinois Gov. ...

We’re one week into a federal government shutdown after Congress failed to pass an annual budget on time, and critical housing funds hang in the balance. With households still feeling pressure from rising costs of living and homelessness reaching a national record last year, any federal ...