On my home office wall hangs a framed poster with the word peace in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.

I acquired it in Jerusalem in November 1977 when I was covering Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s historic visit there, a stunning event that truly changed the Middle East. Once Egypt — then the Arab world’s foremost military power — signed a...Read more

There are many ways to interpret Bari Weiss’ elevation to editor in chief of CBS News — an impressive title that still doesn’t quite capture her influence, considering she’ll report directly to David Ellison, chairman of Paramount and son of the billionaire Oracle co-founder.

One could, of course, be jealous. She’s 41, has no ...Read more

The Trump-corrupted Department of Justice indictment of the president’s declared political enemy, New York Attorney General Tish James, on flimsy bank fraud charges is a joke and the matter should be easily dismissed by an independent federal judge.

Whether this is selective prosecution or malicious prosecution is to be established, but it is...Read more

As a retired admiral and former supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, I was thrilled when Sweden and Finland joined the alliance. My first thought was about the vast coastline the two Nordic states provided, essentially turning the Baltic Sea into a “NATO lake.”

Russia has a sliver of land on the eastern corner...Read more

In the 2024 election, Donald Trump mapped an escape route for Republicans from the greatest long-term challenge facing the party. Less than a year later, that path looks much more precarious.

The core demographic challenge facing the GOP is that the party’s most reliable bloc of voters — White people without a four-year college degree — ...Read more

Donald Trump is famous for his hubristic overstatements, but his characterization of Thursday’s events as a “momentous breakthrough” in the Middle East is supported by the facts. Even if his characterization of the future there as being one of “lasting peace, hopefully an everlasting peace” still remains to be seen, given that history ...Read more

How are Chinese artificial intelligence developers protecting their most vulnerable users? A string of dystopian headlines in the U.S. about suicide and youth mental health has put mounting pressure on Silicon Valley, but we’re not seeing a similar wave of cases in China. Initial testing suggests that they may be doing something right, ...Read more

President Donald Trump is trying to break evermore rules and laws is his expanding misuse of the National Guard he wants deployed in Democratic cities.

Last week, Oregon Federal Judge Karin Immergut, appointed by Trump himself, was unequivocal: the president could not federalize the Oregon National Guard for duty in Portland to deal with ...Read more

Across the country, cities have taken to cracking down on people who lack housing — not by finding them places to live, but by kicking them out of the places they are seeking shelter. These mass encampment evictions owe in part to a 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, that allowed cities to enforce bans on public ...Read more

As Democrats and Republicans dig in during the latest government shutdown, the Congressional Budget Office released its monthly spending report on Wednesday projecting that the federal budget deficit for fiscal 2025 will run $1.8 trillion.

The good news is that the amount of red ink shrunk by about $8 billion from fiscal 2024. The bad news is ...Read more

As educators, we’re always looking for ways to keep our students engaged and to provide them with learning experiences that will last a lifetime. Teachers help kids make tabletop volcanoes erupt, lead field trips to museums and award prizes for the most books read. Some also consider purchasing small animals such as hamsters, mice, guinea pigs...Read more

The rising unemployment rate among U.S. workers aged 16 to 24 — it hit 10.5% in August, its highest level in a decade not counting the pandemic years — has added to the worry about the crisis of “disconnected youth,” also known as the NEETs: individuals Not Employed, Enrolled or in Training.

In 2024, 12% of 16- to 24-year-olds were NEET...Read more

Mount Vernon is 21 miles from my home. Lately I can almost feel the tremors from the nation's general-turned-first-president spinning in his grave there.

George Washington, who set long-followed precedents by voluntarily giving up first military and then civilian power, and who built the foundation of the nation's wall between its military and ...Read more

When you climb aboard a roller coaster, you expect to be a little (or a lot) scared. That’s by design. Theme-park rides like coasters, drop towers and other danger-simulating attractions are meant to give the illusion of extreme peril — being flipped upside down, zooming through piles of twisted metal at freeway speeds, dropping from peaks ...Read more

Bari Weiss has done the unthinkable — she’s parlayed a media startup into a mainstream powerhouse, stepping into a new role as editor-in-chief of CBS News as part of a $150 million deal that also includes the network combining forces with her online publication, The Free Press. Parent company Paramount Skydance made the announcement Monday. ...Read more

As it turns out, Twitter is not the town square. Someone might want to alert American political leaders.

In the era of social media, Democratic and Republican politicians have grown hyper-sensitive, and responsive, to activists who seemingly live their lives online. Whether on X, formerly Twitter, where the right ruminates over every alleged ...Read more

Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump escalated his war of words with Democratic officials in Illinois with a Truth Social post stating: “Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!”

There’s no evidence that either Mayor Brandon Johnson or Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has done anything but...Read more

California Sen. Alex Padilla is among the highest-ranking Latinos in U.S. politics today, but it took a pair of handcuffs to make him famous.

How's that for a comment on America 2025?

Padilla, you may remember, was tackled and cuffed by federal officers after attempting to ask a question of Homeland Security Czarina Kristi Noem at an L.A. news...Read more

On Saturday, a home belonging to a South Carolina Circuit judge burned to the ground. Three people, including the judge's husband and son, were hospitalized with serious injuries.

The cause of the fire was not immediately clear. An investigation is underway.

Obviously, the harm and destruction were terrible things. But what turned that ...Read more

Crank up the Benny Hill theme song and let the belly laughs commence.

As President Donald Trump's summer of immigration raids turns into a fall of occupation, I need some — and who knew his deportation machine could bring them? To watch videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in action failing bigly is like watching "Star Wars" ...Read more