Colorful billionaire and presidential adviser Elon Musk sparked quite a reaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington last week when he leaped around the stage waving a chainsaw.

Feeding millions of people isn’t cheap, but what’s the cost of letting our people go hungry? As Congress debates the federal budget, lawmakers are proposing deep cuts to essential programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). These safety nets help struggli…

It’s not easy to steal the spotlight from two seasoned publicity lovers like President Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but Musk’s 4-year-old son X AE A-Xii, or “X” for short, made it look easy during his Oval Office visit.

Just days before the inauguration of President Trump, the American Petroleum Institute joined Alabama’s Attorney General and four other states to challenge the Biden administration’s politically motivated and 11th-hour ban on future offshore oil and gas activities across millions of unleased…

President Donald Trump has ordered the Treasury Department to stop minting pennies to save money. It costs almost four cents to make one and as the president seeks to reduce federal spending, the penny is a good, if largely symbolic, target. The nickel is even more expensive. It costs nearly…

Veterans in Alabama have an opportunity. It is an opportunity to have a stronger voice and a seat at the table. It is an opportunity for every Alabama veteran, not just a few.

Back when a public backlash began to rise up mostly among white parents against “critical race theory,” I joked as to whether Black History Month might be next.

As the investigation into last week’s air disaster in Washington was still getting underway, President Donald Trump didn’t bother to wait for actual evidence to figure out what was to blame: “DEI.”

Recently, the nation learned about the long-awaited 2024 NAEP results. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, is the Super Bowl for education policy nerds. So, we hope you will forgive some cheesy math puns as we highlight the incredible prog…

As physicians and leaders of two primary care medical associations in Alabama, we’ve seen firsthand how vaccines and modern medicine save lives and protect communities.

Hindsight, as the old saying goes, is always 20/20. That thought came to mind after a couple of the roughly 1,500 Jan. 6 offenders given pardons by President Trump said they didn’t want it.

It was the day after President Joe Biden’s formal Farewell Address to the Nation.

The recent national conversation around a federal “DOGE,” the Department of Government Efficiency, has sparked important conversations about streamlining government and reducing waste. The concept has merit, particularly for the federal government, which has tens of trillions of dollars in o…

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor from Georgia who thinks he can run for president.”

Seventy-seven million Americans sent a clear message on Nov. 5 — they want President Donald Trump back in the White House, and they want his America First agenda implemented.

Just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump was scheduled to return to the White House, the coterie of American tech oligarchs who played a decisive role in re-electing him was busy exerting their own power in ways that suggest the MAGA coalition may be heading for a crack-up.

After weighing pros and cons of electric vehicle (EV) ownership since becoming president of the Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition in 2020, I decided my next pickup truck would be electric.

As it has been doing yearly since 2009, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact has chosen the Lie of the Year. There was an abundance of nominees.

Our country is in the throes of a mental health crisis, and it’s our kids who are suffering the most. While social media is far from the only contributor, it stands out as a major culprit.

Watching the year-end budget fights in Congress as we await the second term of President-elect Donald Trump, I find myself wondering: Will this era be remembered as the time when Trump was president and Elon Musk ran the country?

Hope, resilience, and miracles are some of the wonderful themes of Hanukkah.

When Merriam-Webster chose “polarization” as the word of the year for 2024, the timing was dramatic for many of us who make our living through words.

Despite some progress in reducing the number of cigarette smokers, smoking remains the leading cause of disease and preventable death in Alabama. Fortunately, there are some commonsense steps we can take to reduce smoking rates even further.

Just once.

CBS News reports that the price of electricity in the U.S. has jumped 28.5% since 2019.

"Democrats are like the Yankees," said one of the most memorable tweets to come across on X after Election Day. "Spent hundreds of millions of dollars to lose the big series and no one got fired or was held accountable."

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump declared that America needs a health system that will “take care of everybody,” not just those who can “pay for it.”

“Kakistocracy” is trending again.

Congress recently made a number of changes to Medicare’s “Part D” prescription drug benefit. The changes were part of President Biden’s signature legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. The legislation was intended to make it easier for seniors to afford their medicines.

In the aftermath of Vice President Kamala Harris' decisive electoral loss to former President Donald Trump, my mind has kept going back to a memorable and widely repeated gaffe by a man who was not on the ballot.