Get ready to welcome back polio, measles and other preventable viruses if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the  next secretary of Health and Human Services. There are few government departments that have as direct a…

With a newly emboldened Republican Party poised to take over the federal government and much of the nation, the question of what kind of party it will be going forward looms large. Will it continue…

President-elect Trump’s cabinet is shaping up to include many good people who will reassure the public that it didn’t blunder by betting on a second term. But Mr. Trump might undo it all if he…

Even before America’s election, the world was unstable, with wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East, among other places, and crackling tensions in the Pacific.  The next 10 weeks could bring new perils. Donald…

“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff,” Donald Trump told business leaders in October. “It’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.”  Now, with his election victory, Mr. Trump’s…

We don’t yet know exactly how many votes Republicans will control in the U.S. Senate, but control they will — which means Democrat Chuck Schumer, will no longer be majority leader. That’s a pity; Schumer…

Immigration and the 50 million people in this country who were foreign born have been an unfair target for both political parties in this election. America needs immigrants and the economy would fall apart without…

Donald Trump, meet Grover Cleveland, the only other President in U.S. history to win a second term after losing his first bid for re-election. It’s a remarkable accomplishment and a political comeback for the ages.…

Antarctica is the only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the…

It’s time to vote again, to carry out a basic task of democracy. Or, as some would have it, to fulfill our sacred duty as Americans. This sort of elevated language for voting is common…