The facts about nuclear energy are sinking in. Even in Illinois.
Illinois has suffered for decades from serious cognitive dissonance on nuclear energy. The state boasts the nation’s largest fleet of...
The world is adjusting to an unreliable United States
For years now, Europe has been caricatured as too divided to act, too lethargic to decide, too comfortable to think...
How the U.S. can help bring a new Iran into focus
When thinking about the political transition that’s so desperately needed in Iran, it’s useful to conduct a thought experiment: When...
Answering your questions about this season’s respiratory viruses
You’re reading The Checkup With Dr. Wen, a newsletter on how to navigate medical and public health challenges. Click here...
Nurses at D.C.’s largest hospital protest over alleged wage theft
Seventy nurses protested outside MedStar Washington Hospital Center on Thursday morning, alleging D.C.’s largest hospital engaged in wage theft and...
Trump threatens Insurrection Act deployment to quell Minnesota ICE protests
MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota on Thursday, raising the prospect of sending...
What could happen if Trump invoked the Insurrection Act in Minnesota
President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy U.S. troops to Minnesota if state officials...
Pentagon to overhaul independent military newspaper, calling it ‘woke’
The Defense Department said it plans to overhaul Stars and Stripes, the storied military newspaper that has long enjoyed editorial...
Standalone Grok app still undresses women after X curtails access to tool
LONDON — After X announced that it had disabled, in some locations, a controversial Grok tool that allows users to...
The 33 best things to do in D.C. this weekend and next week
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy are celebrated throughout the D.C. area this weekend, with parades, music,...
Machado’s Nobel gamble: A peace offering to win over a wary Trump
President Donald Trump was meeting Thursday with Venezuela’s most prominent opposition figure, María Corina Machado, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate...
In D.C. mayoral bid, Lewis George pledges universal child care, social housing
Universal child care was among the major policy goals that Janeese Lewis George (D), the Ward 4 D.C. Council member,...
I’m a business owner. Here’s what tariffs do.
Few ideas unite economists across ideological lines more than this one: Tariffs are taxes. And like with most taxes, their...
Illinois finally abandons its ban on new nuclear plants
Illinois has suffered for decades from serious cognitive dissonance on nuclear energy. The state boasts the nation’s largest fleet of...
The historic D.C. buildings Homeland Security wants to raze were deemed stable
Most of the historic buildings that the Department of Homeland Security is seeking to demolish in Southeast Washington were recently...
