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

Eight million single, childless adults face high payroll taxes, receive no credit. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)

Senate Republicans have a path to a tax deal win

Patrick T. Brown February 22, 2024 6:00 am

Fairfax County Public Schools can’t get enough money

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora February 20, 2024 10:34 am

Drag queens Scalene Onixxx (L) and Athena Kills are greeted by sisters Cambria (C) and Waverly (2ndR) beside their mother Melissa following a session of Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Books in Riverside, California, on June 22, 2019.

It’s OK not to want a drag queen principal

Max Eden February 19, 2024 6:00 am

The Virginia legislature just passed a new campus sexual assault bill. (iStock)

Virginia child marriage bill misses the mark in protecting minors

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora February 14, 2024 6:00 am

In a May 22, 2012 photo, Aly Marzonie, right, and Rachel Shellenback, second from right, team captains of the New Trier High School girls' soccer team, kick a ball with teammates as they prepare for a game in the Illinois High School Association girls' soccer tournament in Skokie, Ill. Girls like those on the New Trier soccer team are reaping the benefits of Title IX, the federal amendment that opened up sports opportunities to girls and women 40 years ago. But some say there's still more progress to be made for girls in sports.

Virginia Senate considers bill that would make it harder for students to participate in school sports

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora February 5, 2024 6:00 am

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Congressional action beats a patchwork approach to protecting children on social media

Jerry Kilgore January 31, 2024 9:44 am

A stock photo of a hospice nurse visiting an elderly male patient who is receiving hospice/palliative care.

Honor life in all its stages

Kimberly Ross January 29, 2024 12:56 pm

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Policymakers must address teenage mental health and social media use

Burt Jones, Jason Anavitarte January 23, 2024 6:00 am

Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, raise their hands painted red, symbolizing blood, during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine the national security supplemental request, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.

The Ann Arbor school board should do its job

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora January 22, 2024 6:00 am

A teacher looks at students in a classroom.

Twenty states passed school choice programs last year. Why haven’t these red states?

Hannah Cox January 21, 2024 6:00 am

Kindness won me over to the pro-life movement

Alina Cough January 20, 2024 6:00 am

The study is the first evidence on how collective bargaining affects students' employment and earnings prospects in adulthood. The news for teachers' unions is not good. (Bloomberg)

Fairfax County’s teachers unions fail students

Stephanie Lundquist-Arora January 18, 2024 6:00 am