Day: February 9, 2026

No, Rep Crockett, driving an 80,000-pound truck is not the same as driving a rental car

3:30 pm February 9, 2026

As someone who has spent decades training professional truck drivers, I take highway safety very seriously. America’s economy depends on a national freight network that moves goods through every state, across every major highway corridor, and into every community. When safety standards for commercial drivers are weakened anywhere, the consequences ripple across the entire country, […]

What Usha Vance’s pregnancy news tells us about men and women in America

3:30 pm February 9, 2026

Second Lady Usha Vance’s announcement of baby number four was delightful and refreshing news. Having four children in the U.S. is not the norm these days. Across the U.S., women are having fewer children, or none at all. As a parent myself, I hope Vance’s news will encourage more women to do the same. A […]

‘We cannot endorse:’ Why the nation’s plastic surgeons are pulling back on youth gender surgery

3:30 pm February 9, 2026

While many major medical groups have maintained support for pediatric gender surgeries, Dr. Bob Basu, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), says it was time for his organization to speak up and raise caution about the “irreversible nature” of these procedures. “Based on what we see today, we cannot endorse gender-related surgical […]

America can’t duck and cover from Washington’s nuclear waste disposal failure

3:30 pm February 9, 2026

Nuclear energy is hot and everyone wants a piece of the action. President Donald Trump has announced his vision to quadruple America’s nuclear capacity by 2050, and 33 countries signed a declaration to triple nuclear capacity over the same period. Not only are governments clamoring for new nuclear power, but private companies are moving full steam ahead. Tech companies […]

How Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post and why he should sell it

1:30 pm February 9, 2026

The first time I spoke to Jeff Bezos, he had founded Amazon as an online bookstore and made himself available to all kinds of journalists — a “political genius,” said the New York Times Magazine, a “brilliant, charming, hyper, and misleadingly goofy mastermind.” In 1999, having blown past the naysayers who scoffed at the strange […]