A taxpayer-funded study found that puberty blockers produced no significant mental-health improvement among approximately 95 children after two years. Researchers delayed releasing the findings because they feared the results would be used against the treatments, allowing politics to suppress evidence about life-altering drugs given to vulnerable children.

Socialism promises security by giving the state greater control over economic life, but history shows that concentrated political power weakens freedom, ownership and productive initiative. America needs private enterprise supported by strong families, sound infrastructure and national industrial capacity, not an ideology that turns legitimate economic frustrations into an excuse for expanding government authority.

American forces can destroy Iranian targets, degrade military capabilities and impose enormous costs, but Washington has never settled on the political result those operations are supposed to achieve. Without a clear endpoint, every Iranian response becomes a reason for another American strike.

Sixty House members, including a record 37 Republicans, are declining to seek reelection, producing the second-largest retirement wave in modern congressional history. The departures threaten the Republican majority, but they also reveal a deeper institutional problem: legislating has become less attractive as authority shifts toward party leadership, executive agencies and permanent bureaucracies.