Introduction Two college stories have dominated campus news this fall, and both have been described as drug stories. They involve two different drugs. At the University of Mississippi, two students died on Sept. 21, 2026, in separate incidents. Kratom-derived pills were found at both scenes. Court records disclosed at an Oct. 9 federal hearing say...
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, under a judicially authorized warrant. Within a day, a second fight broke out over who signed it. Conservative commentators have named U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh as the likely signer. Their argument: if a judge they describe as a Democrat...
Introduction The short answer: both. The violence is real and documented by police chiefs and sheriffs across the political spectrum. The midterm calendar is shaping how loudly, and how broadly, it is being talked about. The flashpoint is surveillance video played at a news conference in Bloomington, Minn., on Tuesday, Oct. 6. Police were called...
A homeowner who bought a house 15 years ago and never sold it has realized no gain. No cash has changed hands. Yet every year, the local tax bill is calculated against what the house would sell for today. In Washington, taxing gains before an asset is sold is one of the most contested ideas...
I Have No Sympathy for Nidal Hasan Let me be clear about where I stand before I say anything else. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical processing center at Fort Hood on Nov. 5, 2009, and murdered 12 soldiers and a civilian. He wounded 32 more. He shot people in the back as they ran...
A federal district judge blocks a presidential policy. An appeals court or the Supreme Court sets the order aside. Critics call the judge an “activist” and ask why the case was allowed to tie up the courts at all. The White House has embraced the label. After a misconduct complaint against Chief Judge James Boasberg...
Intro An Amazon Echo on a kitchen counter, a Samsung television in a living room and a Flock Safety camera on a neighborhood pole all collect information about people who never signed anything. That raises a fair question: how is any of it legal in states that require everyone in a conversation to consent before...
Introduction Three years ago today, Hamas-led gunmen crossed from Gaza into southern Israel, killing roughly 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In the days that followed, the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly to stand with Israel, and support for Israel’s right to respond was close to a bipartisan given in American politics. Few would have predicted...
Introduction In the span of four weeks, five stories tested what the American feminist movement actually stands for. The answers did not line up. On Sept. 4, a Massachusetts jury deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury mother who strangled her three children. Hundreds of women had rallied outside the courthouse on...
A Fight That Crosses Every Political Map In January, the city council in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, voted 4-1 to deny a rezoning that would have allowed the Islamic Society of Tulsa to build a mosque. Nine months later and 1,400 miles east, the Muslim Center of New Jersey filed a federal lawsuit against Marlboro Township...