With Russia-Ukraine and Hamas-Israel diverting U.S. and global attention — especially diverting their military power — is this the moment Beijing attacks Taiwan?

Los Angeles schools are increasingly passing students who don’t even meet grade-level standards. This is and will have important ramifications for their future. Nearly 60% of students come from low-income families. It’s hard to argue that the imposition of this woke curriculum will improve their lives.

Far too many Americans are forced to ration life-saving medicine — like the 8.4 million that rely on insulin. In the wealthiest nation on Earth, this shouldn’t be our reality.

Americans, like Israelis until a few days ago, think they are safe, that our enemies are contained. How else explain the ease with which MAGA Republicans tolerate Donald Trump’s ongoing verbal aggression against America’s military and intelligence establishments that are supposed to protect us?

We listen helplessly to each news report that features the celebration of death and destruction of our ancestral families.

The Hamas attack was just a taste of what it would do to Israel if it had the power — extricate an indigenous people from their homeland in the most brutal fashion possible, in the name, of course, of anti-colonialism.

A 16-year-old who didn’t choose to become a public figure should be given the room to figure things out without becoming the subject of attacks from across the world. 

The lesson that never seems to be learned is that when one bargains with evil, like Hamas, evil wins. The goal should be to defeat evil, and in that pursuit Israel deserves the support of all who share her greater goal of true peace.

X is now an app that forcibly puts abhorrent content into users’ feeds and then rewards financially the people who were the most successful in producing it, egging them on to do it again and again and make it part of their living.

Donald Trump’s court dates and legal entanglements aren’t a distraction from his campaign, as some observers predicted; in large part, they are the campaign.