In early September, a 27-year-old researcher quit Anthropic and posted a seven-part warning on X. The big AI labs, he wrote, were “racing straight to self improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” The thread drew more than 100 million views in about a day. Within the week, Anthropic’s chief executive called for slowing the […]
Energy Secretary Chris Wright has a “dream”: to use natural gas to save the lives of millions of the world’s poorest. “[T]he biggest challenge [is] 2 billion people on the planet cook their daily meals and warm their houses the same way all our ancestors did, burning wood, dung, and agricultural waste indoors,” causing “2 […]
Clip and save this op-ed, because I may be the only person in the free world predicting that in the midterm elections next month, the Republicans are going to win and win big. They’re going to hold both the House and the Senate, and they’ll even increase their margins in both chambers. Here’s why. Americans […]
Nine hundred dollars a child. That was the going rate, according to federal prosecutors, for carrying a child across the bridge from Juárez into El Paso. Some of those children were 5 years old. Some were given marijuana gummies before the trip so they’d be too groggy to answer questions at the port. One of […]
President Donald Trump and his economic team, led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, are delivering a solid economic performance so far in 2026: Real GDP growth rate of 2.5% and 2.2% per annum in the first and second quarters, respectively; core inflation rate (excluding food and energy) of 3.9% and 3.3% per annum, respectively; and […]
The U.S.-China summit has come and gone, and artificial intelligence was a key topic of discussion. There were reportedly no major breakthroughs, but diplomacy takes time. It also takes willpower and commitment, especially with complicated, critically important topics such as highly advanced AI. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet […]
The Democratic Socialists of America has imagined a future in which the bills disappear. “You don’t pay a mortgage or have a landlord,” its 2026 program declares. Its housing agenda calls for publicly owned construction, tighter regulation of investment properties, and universal rent control. For people struggling to afford an apartment, that is an attractive […]
Higher education today is reeling from multiple crises. From the incursion of artificial intelligence into the classroom, to the crackdown on research funding by the Trump administration, the skyrocketing cost of college, and the decline in trust from the American public, it is hard to know what university leaders can do to restore their institutions […]
On Sept. 18, the White House issued a fact sheet announcing an executive order renewing the $100,000 fee President Donald Trump first imposed on all newly issued H-1B visas last September. That fee was initially upheld by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., and collected for months, but a federal judge in Massachusetts later reached […]
Almost every signal from Washington says the same thing: nothing big happens in Iran before the midterm elections. In late September, the Wall Street Journal reported that President Donald Trump had rejected Tehran’s seven-day ceasefire plan and told aides he expects to resume bombing after the Nov. 3 vote. At the United Nations, he said […]
Information warfare is often understood as the dissemination of falsehoods intended to portray an adversary as weak, wrong, or wicked. But some of the most consequential information contests today are not simply over facts; they are battles over interpretation. Who started the crisis? Who won the battle? What is the Chinese translation of an agreed […]
Imagine sitting on an airplane at 34,000 feet. Breakfast has been served. You are flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv with more than 170 other people, most of them Israelis. Then the plane drops. Not turbulence. Not a little shake. It plunges thousands of feet. People scream. Something is happening near the cockpit. Eventually, passengers […]
