Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican from Louisiana, is also a doctor. He put up resistance last February to Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "Bobby," as Trump likes to call him, has long cast doubts on the safety of vaccines that ...

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell's focus is far from skirmishes but rather on the forces and figures that filled the halls of Congress, keeping memory alive in the ...

This week, Israel finally unleashed its firepower against Iran's nuclear program in a devastating feat of intelligence work, technological competence and war planning. The Israelis not only caught the Iranian regime flatfooted, but they devastated Iran's war-making capacity, degrading Iran's ...

Events are moving fast. Seven days ago, as I write, Israel had not yet launched its first attacks on targets in Iran. Seven days from now, things may well have changed — significantly. In such times, a historian's perspective may be helpful. Fortunately, the two most eminent English-language ...

Per the U.S. State Department, in a statement issued in April 2025, "Iran remains the leading state sponsor of terrorism in the world and has financed and directed numerous terrorist attacks and activities globally, through its IRGC-Qods Force and proxies such as Hizballah and Hamas." On ...

It's not that I don't remember my father complaining. Because, oh, he did plenty of that. He complained about how there were too many lights on in the house, how we hadn't eaten all our food, how the door was still open or how we'd turned the heat up too high. He complained that our grades ...