The Senate passed landmark legislation Monday night intended to regulate the Wild West of college sports compensation and transfers, teeing up a vote in the House after the November midterm elections.
For decades American universities did something unusual. They took young people who were not yet good enough and spent years making them better, and out of that came Olympians, national team members, coaches. On Sunday afternoon, I watched Ben Shelton play for the US Open title. He had beaten Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals in […]
The newest cultural-political fad? Call for a “pause” in artificial intelligence development. As columnist Dominic Pino observes, politicians can’t actually tell us what this “pause” should entail. That’s a tell that these pausers are performing for public opinion. On this issue at least, President Donald Trump sees the bigger picture. He knows that America currently […]
Much of what we hold dear as Americans we owe to what our Founding Fathers accomplished in the summer of 1787 and the extraordinary document they signed on Sept. 17. Constitution Day should be celebrated throughout our country but rarely is. That day comes and goes every year without ever coming up in our conversations. […]
TRUMP, GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS, AND THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Did you know that just-released Census Bureau statistics show the poverty rate in the United States fell to a record low in 2025? That’s an extraordinary development, but it has so far not attracted a lot of media coverage or discussion. What about a big White House […]
The debate over wealth taxes is about more than who pays more in taxes. It is how much visibility the government should have into people’s personal finances and how much power the IRS should have to scrutinize, value, and challenge what they own. A federal wealth tax would represent a significant expansion of that reach. […]
Most Americans first heard about the Democratic Socialists of America during the 2016 Democratic primary. The rise of the “Bernie Bro” and Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) so-called “democratic socialism” stood in blatant opposition to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s corrupt Washington-insider politics. Despite Sanders’s eventual loss, his calls for socialism resonated with many young […]
Overlooked in the increasingly heated debate over data centers, the backbone of the artificial intelligence ecosystem, is the strategic reality that data centers are vital for America’s national security in its three inextricably intertwined dimensions: military security, economic security, and political security. In our democratic federal structure, this debate, which ranges from hysteria fueled by […]
Roy Cooper’s greatest advantage as he runs for Senate may also be the strongest argument against him — North Carolinians already know him and his record. Cooper has held elected office since Ronald Reagan was president, starting with his election to the North Carolina state House in 1986. In the time since, he served in […]
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently argued that artificial intelligence development may need to slow down for safety reasons, while also urging tighter restrictions on U.S. chips and technology to prevent China from pulling ahead. Meanwhile, OpenAI is explicitly asking the U.S. federal government to impose mandatory national safety rules on frontier AI, and Anthropic’s policy […]
Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed a bill on Sept. 9 that tells you everything about how entrenched interests behave when they start losing an argument. They don’t get better at making their case. They get a lawyer, a subpoena, and a fine schedule. The new law makes it illegal to “falsely impersonate” a union or […]
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has achieved a rare feat in today’s polarized political climate: He has united Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, business leaders, Hollywood unions, theater owners, and a growing number of Republican attorneys general. They are all pushing back […]
The Senate on Tuesday fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the latest version of the CLARITY Act. The bill now returns to negotiations rather than moving forward on the Senate floor. That is a delay, not a defeat, and it hands the Senate something it did not have last week: time to […]
Reports of progress in trade talks between the United States and Mexico this week should come as welcome news to millions of American autoworkers who have been holding their breath since negotiations with Canada collapsed last month. On Monday, President Donald Trump said an agreement with Mexico was close and raised the prospect of eliminating […]
