Eight years after the publication of 1984’s Bright Lights, Big City, that riotous and audacious first novel about a twenty-something man crashing and burning in the glittering streets and shadier corners of Manhattan, Jay McInerney broadened his scope and produced a multistranded, multivoiced work. Published in 1992, Brightness Falls documented the charmed lives of New […]
When the Chinese Communist Party’s English-language flagship, Global Times, lectures American readers about the “high energy consumption” of U.S. data centers, it isn’t because Beijing has developed a soft spot for our electric bills. It’s because every server farm we don’t build in Texas or Virginia is one China gets to build first. That line […]
The Virginia Supreme Court has denied Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s attempt to certify the results of her redistricting constitutional amendment referendum, a procedural step Spanberger had scheduled for today. Now the court has more time to decide whether the governor violated the commonwealth’s Constitution in her mad dash to alter it. The arguments in Virginia’s […]
Inland Ale Works is a great brewery in Cheney, Washington. Established in a remodeled auto shop, the whole place is decorated with photos of old Spokane, Washington, breweries and horse-drawn wagons loaded with beer barrels. There are ads for Rainier, National Bohemian, and Golden Age beers. I was there on Saturday to talk to my […]
Russia’s major overnight missile strike on Kyiv reflects Vladimir Putin’s desire to squeeze Ukraine and to divide the United States and Europe in their respective policies towards Russia. The attacks, which predominantly targeted civilian residential apartment buildings, killed at least 21 people, including four children. At least one strike badly damaged the European Union office […]
Artificial intelligence companies rushed out their chatbots for mass public use with little regard for how they would be used. This reckless push into an AI future is full of insufficient safeguards and disastrous consequences. On Tuesday, Anthropic released a report saying that a hacker used its Claude Code chatbot to identify vulnerable companies, hack […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Whether President Donald Trump can wrest control of the Federal Reserve […]
The politics of artificial intelligence are quickly becoming a contest over regulation, with lawmakers and agencies competing to demonstrate vigilance rather than focusing on enabling innovation. The Senate’s decision to strip a decadelong federal moratorium on state AI rules from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a case in point. In one day, Washington, […]
This op-ed first appeared in The Gazette, the Washington Examiner’s Colorado Springs-based sister publication. The national conversation turns once again to marijuana and a potential federal rescheduling from Schedule I to Schedule II, or even lower. Big Pot’s new ad blitz, sponsored in part by Big Pot’s new investors — Big Tobacco/Big Pharma/Big Alcohol — […]
Close your eyes for a moment and consider the following: A deranged maniac sprays bullets into a Planned Parenthood. Or a mosque. Or a gay nightclub. The killer displays right-wing slogans all over his weaponry. This includes a bullet-holed target board with an image directly related to the target site: an aborted fetus, a crescent […]
In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. President Donald Trump is being denounced for deploying the National Guard […]
Earlier this year, the Trump administration wisely dropped a Biden administration lawsuit against Zelle. But now Letitia James, the far-left attorney general of New York, has revived the bogus Biden claims in a new lawsuit against the money transfer network. If she prevails, the biggest beneficiaries will be fraudsters and scammers. It’s striking that James […]
Earlier this year, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that President Donald Trump had a new strategy for funding the federal government: an External Revenue Service. “[The President’s] plan is very simple: to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” he told Fox News in February. The “outsiders,” according to Lutnick, were foreign nations, […]
Statesmen and diplomats are quick to claim success, but few acknowledge their role in failures. To date, the State Department has not issued any report on how the United States lost Turkey, once among its most trusted NATO partners. There is plenty of blame to go around when it comes to Turkey’s transition from ally […]
Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics broke with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and declared that COVID-19 vaccination for young children is “evidence-based.” Its case rests on one fact: Children under 2 are still being hospitalized with COVID-19, at rates comparable to adults in their 50s and early 60s. That fact is […]
When Oasis announced their reunion and accompanying 2025 tour, the running jokes practically wrote themselves. Some lauded whatever miracle-worker had convinced Liam and Noel Gallagher to share a stage again, wondering why that savant wasn’t brokering peace in the Middle East. Others doubted the brothers’ ceasefire would survive even until the first show in Cardiff, […]
Every three months, global financial markets hyperventilate about Nvidia’s quarterly earnings release and the company’s guidance about its operations. Most importantly, it’s the buildout of the global artificial intelligence industry. Nvidia’s July quarter earnings and revenues, released Wednesday after the markets closed, came in better than Wall Street analysts expected. The company announced earnings of $1.05 against forecasts […]
If you shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken, you certainly shouldn’t fix what’s working very well. This is especially true when the imprudent change would risk the U.S. military’s prospects of victory in a future war. President Donald Trump appears poised to make such a mistake by announcing the relocation of the military’s Space Command from […]
