In Wellesley, Massachusetts, it is basically illegal to build a starter home, and it looks like it will stay that way. The voters of Massachusetts appear to have rejected a measure that would have overridden local laws that ban modest lots. This sounds like an arcane battle between state law and local zoning regulations, but […]
College basketball tipped off this week with a new kind of box score. According to the NCAA, about 200 eligibility lawsuits involving roughly 850 athletes have been filed since June. By the Associated Press‘s count, 171 men’s and 30 women’s basketball players have won some court relief to play. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd watched forward […]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has acknowledged a lame-duck increase through the end of President Donald Trump’s term as a possibility “multiple times since July,” Politico reported on Oct. 13. Republicans are also eyeing defense money, and a reconciliation package shelved before the midterms carried about $100 billion for defense and farm aid, Roll […]
Just as political pundits of the 1970s were quick to say that only Richard Nixon could reach out to the communists of Beijing, the pundits of 2026 might say that only President Donald Trump could end the $4 billion in annual U.S. military aid to Israel. Trump made the announcement in the final days of […]
Artificial intelligence is dominating most news media, with coverage oscillating among fears for humanity, announcements of breakthrough advances, and trepidation about the impending infrastructure investment that could dwarf every previous industrial and technological revolution. Anthropic and OpenAI, the corporate developers of the most advanced “frontier” AI systems, hope, audaciously, to raise capital that values each […]
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Ten years ago, a homemade sign stood off U.S. 62 between Sharon, Pennsylvania, and Masury, Ohio, on the fault line of the Mahoning Valley. It read: “You had your chance, it’s our turn now.” On Tuesday, the valley said it again. This time, it was talking to Republicans. Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, […]
President Donald hTrump's job approval sank to 38% as inflation, tariffs and the Iran war drove a historic Democratic sweep of the House and the Senate.
Democrats flipped enough governorships to seize a majority, reversing a 26-24 Republican edge and shifting state government power opposite the White House.
