The American College of Surgeons, self-titled “The House of Surgery,” invited Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to give the Olga M. Jonasson Memorial Lecture this past weekend at the annual ACS Clinical Congress. The ACS is the largest and oldest professional society representing the practice of surgery, and fellowship in the ACS is an […]
For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, I am experiencing a deeply unfamiliar sensation. An election cycle is reaching its peak, but my name is not on the ballot. As a longtime resident of Maryland, I spent 24 straight years down in the political arena. My name was a fixture on […]
In education, accountability is usually measured by what governments require schools to do: administer tests, file reports, meet compliance standards, and undergo periodic reviews and audits. Those tools have a place, but they all share one limitation. They take years to reveal that a child is in the wrong educational environment. Parents whose child is […]
Verbal guidance telling some ICE offices to stop arresting illegal immigrants without criminal histories was rescinded within hours amid fierce backlash.
President Donald Trump launched America.gov, an AI-powered site that consolidates federal services from passport applications to Medicare enrollment in one place.
Former special counsel Jack Smith's probe into President Trump and Republicans collected "communications" from members of the news media, including major networks and newspapers, the Senate's senior lawmaker revealed Tuesday.
In the span of a few months, advanced AI systems from three leading American laboratories crossed the boundaries of safety tests and affected real systems. Google’s Gemini accessed systems at three companies. An Anthropic model published malicious code that reached 15 outside systems. And as revealed last week, these are creating international incidents, with OpenAI’s […]
When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]