Republican Mike Rogers expressed support Thursday for a “pause” on data center construction as he runs against a progressive Democrat for Michigan's open Senate seat.
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President Donald Trump sent a dangerous message by scaling down U.S. military exercises with South Korea. Trump observed on Wednesday, “I felt — we are doing a massive war exercise — and I thought that was very insulting to [North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un] [who,] frankly, during my term at least, has been very […]
The debate over fairness in women’s sports has bounced back to center court, with Sophie Cunningham becoming its latest flashpoint. After telling ESPN she believes women’s sports should be reserved for biological women, the professional basketball player spent two weeks in the throes of a national firestorm as rallies of support erupted outside WNBA arenas […]
If your impression of San Francisco was formed during the pandemic, it is time to update it. The city portrayed as a dystopian collection of homeless encampments, open-air drug markets, boarded-up storefronts, and empty office towers still exists in the public imagination. Some of those problems remain, but that version of San Francisco is increasingly […]
We have seen outsize investor focus on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s response to it. But while monetary policy gets most of the headlines, the much bigger long-term economic threat is our rapidly growing federal debt. The deficit is around $2 trillion out of a $7 trillion federal budget (about 30% of spending!), which must […]
The November midterm elections will be the first national election in which generative artificial intelligence is cheap, convincing, and carried in everyone’s pocket. The concerns being discussed are not hypothetical. The Los Angeles County’s registrar has reported that AI was used during California’s June primary to manipulate publicly available footage of ballot counting to gin […]
Americans have good reason to worry about the rapid spread of Flock Safety cameras. More than 6,000 governments in 49 states now use these swarms of cameras to monitor cars, tracking their movements throughout the day for law enforcement purposes. While catching criminals is always important, people fear their privacy rights are at risk, and […]
Foggy Bottom’s obsession with a dysfunctional Bosnian condominium ignores reality and creates a dangerous strategic vacuum. History proves that the Western Balkans cannot survive multi-ethnic experiments, which inevitably collapse under internal contradictions. Instead of worshiping dead institutional stability, Washington must forge a realistic diplomatic road map guiding Republika Srpska toward independence. True regional stability requires […]
The most dangerous thing about artificial intelligence may not be what the machine thinks. It may be who gets to tell it what is true. That fight burst into the open last week, when the Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian satire publication, sued New Mexico over a law it says requires AI-generated political satire to […]
In his inauguration address last year, Mayor Zohran Mamdani vowed “to transform and reinvent” New York City. That pledge took an ominous leap forward last month when the mayor appointed former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan as the head of New York City’s Economic Development Corporation board of directors. The move was more than […]
A federal judge in Brooklyn just decided that painting a cardboard ice cream pint a soft pastel color, giving it a matching lid, and writing the brand name in black cursive is so uniquely original, so protectable, that a competitor must now hand over nearly $24 million in profits for daring to do something similar. […]
There are moments when personnel decisions reveal more about a political system than its speeches, slogans, or diplomatic statements. The military hierarchy now taking shape in Tehran is one of those moments. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei may represent a new leadership at the apex of the Islamic Republic, but the men being elevated around him belong […]
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov opened a new front in the country’s sharpening political scene on Tuesday, calling for new elections despite the continuing war with Russia. Fedorov, a popular reformer credited with modernizing Ukraine’s government and expanding its military drone program, had served as one of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s most prominent ministers before […]
Woke educators cared more about pleasing progressive activists than about students' success. Now, five years later, colleges finally acknowledge that they made a mistake.
