As a climate scientist, Peter Kalmus is monitoring the wildfire catastrophe in the Los Angeles area with concern. But in a New York Times essay, Kalmus explains that his concern has a personal twist: He uprooted his family from Altadena two years ago because the warning signs kept stacking up,...

Charles Blow decided to stop drinking four years ago, and the New York Times columnist writes that it was the best decision he's ever made. His latest column, though, deals with an unexpected aspect of that: "I always understood the moral judgments about overconsumption, but I hadn't anticipated those about...

President Biden describes himself as the most "pro-union president" in history, but economics columnist Catherine Rampell writes that he betrayed union workers by blocking Nippon Steel's acquisition of US Steel . What's unusual here is that by moving against the Japanese company, Biden gave the United Steelworkers union exactly what it...

A new study suggests a simple way for doctors to improve the success rate of clinical procedures: They should "warm up" ahead of time, similar to how an athlete preps before a game or a singer before a concert. In a New York Times essay, three Harvard Medical School doctors...

Serving as creative chief for a major publication means you must have a discriminating eye for color—and in Mike Schnaidt's eyes, the color purple is as "confused" as they come. "Let me count the heinous hues: plum, lilac, orchid, lavender, violet, mauve. Barf," writes the creative chief for Fast...

The James Carville of 2024 got it wrong in his election prediction of a Kamala Harris victory. Had he listened to the James Carville of 1992 , he might have gotten it right. "It was, it is, and it always will be the economy, stupid," the political consultant writes in a...

A sampling of editorials on the death of Jimmy Carters in major newspapers on Monday: Wall Street Journal: "Carter brought good intentions and admirable character to the White House, but he was unable to address the main problems of his time," write the editors. "Democrats nominated him as a fresh...

The threat of nuclear weapons—"catastrophic destruction, potentially wiping out hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and spreading radioactive contamination across borders and generations"—is terrifying. But "nuclear weapons are remarkably inefficient tools of war"—"they are clumsy, expensive, and lack practical military utility," Beatrice Fihn, former executive director of...

Looking back on 2024, Peggy Noonan has no doubt of the scandal of the year: "the decline of Joe Biden's mental acuity" and what she says was a coverup by White House staff. The Wall Street Journal columnist claims President Biden "has been in apparent cognitive decline for some years,...