I have to admire the Republican perpetual candidate. For one thing, he is a master at manipulating the news media. I visited a major news consolidators site (not FOX) recently. There were 8 pictures of him and one of Harris. Seven pictures of him were just stock images unrelated to the article. Harris has had huge events but we can only see the pictures on The Comedy Channel where they compare her actual coverage to his inflated numbers, and even then, they give him gratis thumbnails.

Another medical school has gone tuition-free. Johns Hopkins University announced last month that it will waive tuition for all students from families earning less than $300,000 starting this fall, thanks to a $1 billion gift from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

We are not fans of restrictive ballot access, believing that candidates with even a modicum of legitimate support should be able to compete for votes. Throwing people off the ballot based on obscure technicalities that New York used to specialize in, like using the wrong color of paper, is dirty pool deployed by party machines to squash insurgents.

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not far away…

This year, quotas requiring equal numbers of female and male athletes delivered a Summer Games closer to gender parity than any other Olympics in history.

Of all the trends reshaping cities in the post-pandemic era, this may be the most worrying: In large numbers, families of young children are fleeing urban centers. Answering their concerns so that New York and other metropolises remain places where millions of kids grow up is urgent, and essential.

Free money makes people less likely to work. If common sense doesn’t convince you of that, a new study should.

Hamas has a new leader. And his elevation speaks volumes.

When Italian boxer Angela Carini reported that she had “never felt a punch like that” after conceding to Algeria’s Imane Khelif 46 seconds after their Olympic match began, social media exploded with accusations. Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling chimed in, accusing Khelif of being a man posing as a woman to cheat.

For people who supposedly revere the Founding Fathers, some Christian conservatives seem to have no problem ignoring one of their most abiding principles: the separation of church and state. Now the chief of schools in Oklahoma is demanding that all public schools teach the Bible from grades 5 through 12, saying it is necessary for an understanding of the country’s history. It is more of an attempt to ignore much of that history.

Americans of all political persuasions should celebrate the release of their countrymen and women from Russian prison cells. While the price was steep, the United States has an obligation to move heaven and earth to bring home its citizens who are unjustly detained in hostile foreign lands.