Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra clashed nonstop for an hour Wednesday in the sole televised debate in their contest for California governor, presenting sharply contrasting visions for how they would deal with homelessness, soaring household costs and high taxes in the nation's most populous state.
Sometimes watching the two major parties compete in this year’s midterm elections brings to mind a quote from the legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel, which journalist Jimmy Breslin used to title his 1963 book: “Can’t anybody here play this game?” Democrats have a historic opportunity to seize control of both houses of Congress for the […]
To call Spider-Man: Brand New Day a movie is to do a disservice to all other examples of filmed entertainment that bear the name. As traditionally understood, a movie purports to tell a story to an audience whose ideal state is one of relative ignorance. Preconceptions, assumptions, and advance knowledge in the viewing public are regarded as […]
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) does not look or present like the same person he was five years ago. The boyish face that made him a cable news fixture during the 2017 Georgia special election, the one that Republicans in the 6th Congressional District hung in mailers next to the word “outsider,” has been replaced by […]
The vicious wave of antisemitism sweeping through the world is terrifying and imperiling Jews, Israel, and others who support free and tolerant societies and the existence of a safe and secure Jewish state. Confronting this evil has been and will continue to be difficult, costly, and painful. History, however, emphatically indicates that we can and […]
Last week on the subway, I saw a man crouch down over an empty seat, proceeding to urinate — and possibly defecate. His behavior and ostensible intoxication were so extreme that it is possible that he mistook the subway seat for a toilet seat. It was a first for me. It gave me pause to […]
When the next cyberattack hits a Fortune 500 company, or ransomware locks the files of a regional hospital system, which artificial intelligence tools will information technology experts use to ward off attackers? Against these threats, coders are increasingly ditching frontier AI large language models in favor of open models without guardrails. This matters because powerful […]
Socialism is fashionable again. We should stop pretending that is harmless. You do not have to be a Republican to oppose socialism. You do not have to support President Donald Trump, defend every corporation, or believe every outcome produced by a market is just. You only have to take socialists seriously when they tell us […]
For the first time in my lifetime, the WNBA is culturally relevant. Not because of how skilled the athletes are, but because of how polarizing it has become in the age of Caitlin Clark and Sophie Cunningham. In the process, left-wing narratives about race and gender are unraveling before our eyes. The conversation surrounding the […]
