I recently read The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There by economists Eric Zwick and Owen Zidar, and I was left wondering something. Have the book’s own authors done the same? At its core, the book includes dozens of supportive profiles of people who built up great family […]
On Sept. 9, California set some of the nation’s first rules for who may audit artificial intelligence. I spent four years on the board that regulates public company auditors, often as its lone dissenter, and the state got more right than wrong. The problem with the policies is that nothing requires proof that an AI […]
People crowded shoulder to shoulder upstairs in a south Alabama coffee shop, in a region sometimes called the reddest in the heavily conservative state.
The British diplomat and novelist, Harold Nicholson, tossed off an essay in 1929 containing a short riff on the three great capitals of Europe. “London is an old lady in black lace and diamonds who guards her secrets with dignity,” while “Paris is the woman in the prime of life to whom one would only […]
Two months before the midterm elections, the Republican Party has a problem. No, it’s not its record, which is strong. And no, it’s not the Democrats, who are weaker than the coverage claims, drowning under the dead weight of a deepening socialist wing that is taking over. The problem is that Republicans haven’t yet successfully […]
Every few weeks, millions of Americans open their digital inboxes. They look through physical mail to discover a document written in dense, formal language. The notice informs them that they belong to a legal class. They are a group of citizens collectively wronged by a business entity. Perhaps a tech platform leaked personal data. A […]
The latest allegation of misconduct raised against Puerto Rico’s Energy Czar Josué Colon Ortiz should be troubling, even in Washington. Several outlets on the island have reported that, as the August deadline neared to close the latest agreement to fix and manage its severely damaged, still-dysfunctional electric grid, he emailed subordinates telling them to “make […]
Fifty-nine percent of Democrats now call themselves supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America. That’s scary because the stated goals of the DSA are not some bloated European welfare state but a radical overhaul of American society. It’s an overhaul that would eventually cost us both our economic and democratic freedoms. A new Quinnipiac poll […]
I rarely pay attention to advertisements, but one that targeted neuropsychologists like me recently caught my eye. Sponsored by the social justice and advocacy committee of the Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, it invited me to join online training sessions focused on immigration. Specifically, it promised to help me and my peers document illegal immigrants’ “cognitive impairments […]
Just three years ago, the Brazilian president headlined the 2023 São Paulo Forum, the premier gathering of Marxist leaders throughout the Americas. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva markedly exclaimed, “To call us communist or socialist will never offend us. Never. On the contrary, it makes us proud. The people know that we deserve to be […]
Two recent controversies on the political Right have forced an uncomfortable question: What does it actually mean to be an American? In Texas, Republican railroad commission candidate Bo French sparked a national controversy after posting a photograph of South Asian students celebrating a University of Texas football victory and suggesting their presence represented Americans being […]
