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Every September 11, America remembers the worst terrorist attack in our history. This year, on its 25th anniversary, I hope we remember September 12 as well. September 11 showed us evil. September 12 showed us America. The distinction is important. On September 11, 2001, terrorists murdered 2,977 people at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon […]

The outrage expressed in China, and globally, following three shocking animal cruelty cases there are a wake-up call for policymakers everywhere—in every nation. China is one of the few countries without a stand-alone, comprehensive anti-cruelty law, something Chinese animal lovers have called for repeatedly. It’s time their voices were heard. The first incident involved a […]

Labor Day is about more than a long weekend. It’s about the American worker—the men and women whose skill and determination built this country and who keep it running. This year, let’s give special thanks to America’s energy workers: the people on drilling rigs and production platforms, in refineries and power plants, along pipelines and […]

Adults on lunch breaks, pensioners with folding chairs, sixteen-year-olds in their first year on eligibility, all queueing on Election Day. In the UK, our next general election, to take place by 2029, will probably involve all those groups. The current UK government was elected on a promise to lower the voting age from 18 to […]

A child’s birthday party should be filled with laughter, cake, presents and a lifetime of fun memories. Last weekend, however, I watched in horror as my friend’s two-year-old son Baron was pulled unconscious from a pool and rushed to a San Diego area hospital. He did not survive. In a matter of seconds, a family […]

On my morning run, I feel my shoelaces flailing about. I look down, only to see that double-knots have failed me––again. I stop my watch, but in the back of my mind, I lament the five seconds it takes me to re-tie my trainers; it’s just enough to elevate my average pace above nine minutes […]

August is National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month, which highlights the need for more organ donors, especially in communities of color. More than 90,000 people in the United States are waiting for a kidney. In 2024, Black patients made up 30.5% of adults on the kidney transplant waiting list. During Thanksgiving week 2023, after years of […]

President John F. Kennedy and his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara In 2003, Errol Morris released The Fog of War, a documentary built around an unusual act of historical reckoning. Robert McNamara, the former secretary of defense who had helped shape American policy in Vietnam, sat before Morris’s camera and attempted to explain what he […]

The call usually comes from the mom of a teenage son. Two years ago, he played soccer and argued about video games. Now he darkly obsesses about Jews the way an addict thinks about the next fix. Parents for Peace operates a confidential national helpline and over the last decade has worked with hundreds of families across […]

For years, I experienced moral injury almost every day without understanding what it was. I didn’t know there was a name for what I was feeling. I only knew that something inside of me had changed after the critical incident. I was carrying something I couldn’t simply put down at the end of my shift. […]