About 10 years ago, I was quite sympathetic — empathetic, even — to the Black Lives Matter movement in its early days. That sympathy ran so deep that the first book I ever published, A Single Life, was a 2020 novel about a black Jewish protagonist, a character built to sit at the intersection of […]
What should come first, national security policy, or trade policy? This is an old debate, and one that should never paralyze a nation such as America. The Trump administration has actually made incredible progress thus far to protect and grow American industry. Well-structured and carefully thought-out trade initiatives have resulted in thousands of jobs being […]
Student loan borrowers are scrambling to make sense of changing rules that will soon affect their ability to take on more debt, as well as their options to pay back what they owe. Depending on your view of higher education, this serves as either a petty blow to lower-income individuals trying to pay for their […]
Six years ago, while still legally a child, Olivia Rodrigo left her career as a Disney Channel actress with the intent of becoming a pop star. This is a tale as old as time, or at least as venerable as Annette Funicello’s singing career, and the blueprint for success is well understood: sign with a […]
Fraud is as least as old as the Trojan War, when Zeus, in a dream, promised swift victory to Agamemnon were he to blitz Troy that day. This was a promise Zeus had no intention of honoring, which kind of set the fraudulent tone for the rest of the war. These days, the gods of […]
The question my non-Jewish friends and acquaintances have most often asked me about Jews is: Why are so many Jews Democrats? I’ve always answered as a Jewish conservative living among the Jewish Democratic majority. However, NewsNation’s Batya Ungar-Sargon offers an insider’s take in her new book, The Jews and the Left. Ungar-Sargon, who’s dubbed herself […]
The newest answer to death does not come from a church, synagogue, or mosque, but from software — and soon, perhaps, a subscription plan. Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported on grieving families in South Korea using AI-generated videos to hear messages from deceased relatives. The technology is not yet a sustained conversation, though […]
June’s Democratic primaries proved that voters are comfortable supporting brash candidates, once-niche ideas, and untested policies. Their personal feelings on these matters tell a different story. A June survey of likely general election voters in Maine found only 44% of them agreeing that Graham Planter, the state’s soon-to-not-be Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, has “good […]
The reignited Iran war is raging after the U.S. military launched retaliatory attacks Saturday in response to Iranian strikes that saw two service members killed in Jordan. President Trump called the deaths "a very sad thing," saying "they were in service of our country." Meanwhile, the president's Thursday primetime speech — when he revisited his...
President Trump on Saturday said the deaths of U.S. service members in Jordan is “a very sad thing.” “We hate to see it happen. They were in service of our country. And they, every one of them will never allow, they’ll fight to the death. But never allowing Iran to have a nuclear weapon," Trump...
Victims’ stories can sometimes illuminate policy failures and inspire meaningful reforms. But compelling stories are no substitute for careful, non-partisan analysis.
Sen. Jon Ossoff is going on offense against President Trump, emerging as one of the Democratic Party’s most aggressive critics on elections — an issue that hits close to home for the Georgia Democrat. Ossoff won his seat in the Senate in a runoff election held on Jan. 5, 2021 — a day before the...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kicked a hornet’s nest with his move this week to test troops’ testosterone levels. Hegseth argues the effort, to become part of the military’s periodic health assessment for troops over 30, will ensure the optimal performance and long-term health of warfighters. But medical experts say Hegseth's rationale for the directive isn't...
Tech employees in Silicon Valley are increasingly finding themselves at odds with industry executives, who are spending millions to push for light-touch AI regulation. The latest disagreement is playing out in a new political spending fight between OpenAI’s rank-and-file employees and the firm’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman. A group of current and former OpenAI...
