Community and Family

A mother holds her baby on her chest after giving birth.

AI anxiety is undermining families: It’s time for a baby bonus

Adrienne Schweer · April 20, 2026 6:00 am

Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website.

A better alternative to high-deductible health insurance

Robert Pattinson, left, and Zendaya attend the special screening of "The Drama" at Regal Union Square on Thursday, April 2, 2026, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The Drama skewers a culture of manufactured outrage

Students raising hands while a teacher asks them questions in a classroom.

School choice isn’t radical. The alternative is

A Demonstration to "Defund Planned Parenthood."

Pro-life movement still faces uphill battle years after Dobbs decision

Foot-dragging by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has stalled a nonprofit group's investigation into whether millions of dollars spent to refurbish a Boston public housing development have fixed more than a decade of maintenance issues and health hazards.

Former foster youth need housing support, and Congress can give it

Steve Womack August 29, 2025 5:00 am

Big Pot, big bucks, big power, big trouble

Robert J. Corry Jr. August 28, 2025 10:47 am

Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic, Nov. 17, 2022, in Richmond, Virginia. The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday, May 1, 2023.

The AAP is wrong on COVID-19 vaccines for children

Monique Yohanan August 28, 2025 6:00 am

Make DC safe again, and the schools great again

Ken Buck August 28, 2025 5:00 am

A ninth grader places her cellphone in to a phone holder as she enters class at Delta High School, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in Delta, Utah. Most schools have policies regulating student cellphone use at school. However, the reality is students don’t always follow the rules and schools enforce them sporadically. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Students without phones make better learners

Daniel Murphy August 27, 2025 5:00 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during an event with President Donald Trump on improving Americans' access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington.

RFK Jr.’s leadership brought an end to the Texas measles outbreak

Rep. Jodey Arrington August 26, 2025 5:00 am

baby

How the American Academy of Pediatrics undermines public trust

Bethany Mandel August 25, 2025 6:00 am

oxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022.

Time to face the truth about mifepristone

Doug Truax August 24, 2025 6:00 am

Artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization.

Redeeming IVF amid its continued ethical decline

William Mills August 23, 2025 5:00 am

Mifepristone tablets

Abortion drug sends thousands to ER, while California sue over reversals

Danielle White August 22, 2025 4:06 pm

Conquering DC’s youth violence epidemic requires reform

Jack Brewer August 22, 2025 5:00 am

Americans are drinking less, why?

Debra Soh August 21, 2025 6:00 am