Once, the United States was an uncontested superpower capable of fielding a military more powerful and more advanced than any other. No longer. Instead, a rival has emerged that poses a serious and credible threat to America and its allies.

To meet the demands of great power competition and ensure strategic flexibility in the years ahead, the Navy must establish a permanent F-35 presence on the East Coast. Virginia Rep. Jen Kiggans says NAS Oceana is ready.

The doubt of living through unfolding history can be acute, all the more so when news cycles spin faster than ever before. Uncertainty, however, is the permanent human condition, and it can be a gift. Maybe the film “Conclave” got it right: “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.”

Has the intelligence community simply stopped thinking about the environment as a security challenge? Does this matter? Is climate change really a national security threat?

Good neighbors help each other. They check in during tough times, shovel snow and lend tools. However, parents can go to jail if families team up for homeschooling in Wisconsin.

As President Donald Trump laid out his case for sweeping new tariffs, it sounded reasonable. The problem with the case he presented is that none of it is true.

Last week’s disclosure of a reporter’s inclusion in a discussion of pending attack plans brought expressions of concern from outside security experts, denials by the administration and a telling effort by President Donald Trump to sidestep the whole controversy, says columnist Carl P. Leubsdorf.

In a moment defined by fracture and division, a surprising development has emerged in America’s religious landscape. The decades-long decline of Christianity is leveling off.

Rep. Morgan Luttrell is reintroducing the Service Dogs Assisting Veterans Act, also known as SAVES Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would establish a five-year, $50 million VA-administered grant program for eligible nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing service dogs to veterans.

American universities generate enormous economic and social returns; weakening them will have costs.