One night on a suicide prevention chat line, a young man typed a sentence I had seen many times before. “Everyone would be better off without me.” He began listing his failures, one after another, as though presenting evidence in a courtroom. My instinct was to challenge his thinking, ...

Some businesses fail, and people lose jobs. So politicians say, "We must protect workers!" Some states expanded the WARN Act, making it harder to lay off workers. But there's a downside to protection, says economist Allison Schrager. "There is no prosperity, no growth ... no ...

Two towering Douglas fir trees at my childhood home framed my childhood and playful inventions. The paired trunks of knurled bark next to my driveway sheltered a needle-carpeted fort. This was home base for the play of long summer afternoons. My friend and I played the “everything job,” a ...

Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University reported on January 6, 2026 that the U.S. birth rate was at a record low in 2024. Between the ages of 15 and 44 the birth rate of average American women was less than the replacement rate of two children. However, since the birth ...

If Republicans are to recover from a crushing midterm election, they need to understand why their defeat was so sweeping and what must be done to regain the trust of the American people. Voters told pollsters that the issues most crucial to them were government corruption and the cost of ...

Wednesday will mark the 108th anniversary of Armistice Day, which marked the end of what was then known as "The Great War" and what we now call World War I. A year later, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first commemoration of Armistice Day to honor the veterans of that conflict. That ...