Polls suggest that Democrats might return to power in Congress, winning both the House and the Senate. If so, California is a warning about what deep-blue control looks like.
President Trump announced Saturday he approved new fuel economy standards that eliminate an electric vehicle (EV) mandate introduced under the Biden administration. The 2024 EV mandate aimed to facilitate the transition from gas-powered to EVs by setting new pollution standards for automakers' vehicle fleets, which were intentionally difficult to meet without introducing new electric or...
Former Kennedy Center employees accused the iconic performing arts venue's leadership in a letter to Congress of halting planned waterproofing repairs earlier this year. In the Thursday letter, David Seide, an attorney representing the whistleblowers, shared internal documents which he said challenged the Kennedy Center board's claims that these leaks constituted the venue's immediate closure. ...
President Trump rejected a new seven-day proposal from Iran Saturday morning to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt military operations in the ongoing conflict between Tehran and the U.S. “They want to make a deal, and I think that’s fine,” the president told reporters at the White House. “I like making a deal, too, but...
Pollsters and independent handicappers are increasingly convinced that Democrats aren’t experiencing an artificial “sugar-high” in polling but that multiple metrics are right now pointing to a good midterm environment for the party. The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report became the latest independent forecaster this week in predicting that Republicans looked poised to lose the...
The consumer electronics market is experiencing an evolutionary leap, driven by an explosion of consumer excitement over dual-screen and flexible smartphone architectures. With the high-profile launch of the Apple iPhone Duo, alongside established entries such as Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold line, the Google Pixel Fold series, and Motorola’s Razr+ clamshell, multidisplay devices are rapidly transitioning […]
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 […]
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 […]
