The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would let married couples with a stay-at-home spouse collect federal welfare benefits. The money comes from a 1990s Health and Human Services fund meant to cover daycare so low-income parents could work or go to school. About 870,000 families ...
It feels like just yesterday that America lost Charlie Kirk. I remember every detail vividly. Charlie and I were in daily contact that week, as he prepared for his next national campus speaking tour. I was part of an intimate Zoom meeting he had organized the night prior to its first stop, ...
Is it the end of the Flynn effect? Decades ago, the researcher James Flynn recognized a secular increase in IQ scores around the world that amounted to humanity getting smarter all the time. Now, technology appears to be pushing the other way. The new results are in from a 2025 ...
Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election "convention" will be a "Trumpapalooza." It'd be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are one of the best examples — among way too many — of American institutional decay. In the ...
This August, the FDA cleared PrecivityAD2, a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease that can be used in adults as young as 40 who are showing signs of cognitive decline — the youngest age threshold of any FDA-cleared Alzheimer’s blood test to date. Previous tests were limited to patients 55 and older. That lower age threshold matters. Alzheimer’s is not only a disease of the very old, and here in Hawaiʻi, where many of us live in multigenerational families, an earlier diagnosis can give families more time to understand what is happening, explore treatment options, plan for the ...
A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere. The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of ...
