By lowering standards to exploit parental anxiety, youth sports and gifted tracks have become expensive participation trophies. Political debates in Washington often miss what is happening in the real world. A good example is the recent fight over the future of the U.S. Department of Education. Headlines focus on budget cuts and restructuring, yet behind […]
Artificial intelligence has plenty of critics. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is quickly establishing himself as something more ambitious. He appears to be building the foundation for an entire anti-AI agenda. His latest proposal may be the most extraordinary yet. Earlier this month, Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) announced the Ban Artificial Intelligence Act, […]
On Sunday, Sept. 6, roughly 29,000 Poles paid a television station’s government bill. The station is Telewizja Republika, for most of this year the most-watched news channel in the country and the largest conservative broadcaster in it. Since January 2024 it has been under an advertiser boycott it has never escaped. Viewer donations now rival […]
After several weeks of testimony and deliberation ending in a mistrial, the prosecution of Lindsay Clancy continues to capture national attention, becoming a touchpoint in the debate surrounding the dangers of feminism and the failures of modern psychology to address human sin. The vast majority of conservatives recognize that postpartum challenges or other stressors cannot […]
President Donald Trump did not write the CHIPS and Science Act. His administration has nevertheless found a distinctly Trumpian way to use it: When taxpayers finance industrial risk, taxpayers should share in the upside. On Sept. 8, the Commerce Department finalized $300 million in research and development support for D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum. […]
For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on a straightforward defense to shield his legacy from the tragedy of Oct. 7, 2023. His narrative has been simple: Israel’s military and intelligence chiefs kept him completely in the dark, and “no one woke me up” on the morning of the Hamas massacre. However, that […]
Jared Kushner is an observant Jew. On Saturday, Sept. 5, he sat in the Kremlin for more than three hours and stayed for dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin. That was the Sabbath. It was also the night Selichot begins, the penitential prayers Ashkenazi Jews recite in the week before Rosh Hashanah. Jewish law permits […]
In the six months ending May 31, SpaceX satellites performed 207,152 propulsive collision-avoidance maneuvers. That is more than 1,100 a day. The figure is not evidence of recklessness. It reflects a conservative safety threshold, a fleet operating at unprecedented scale, and an unusually transparent public accounting. It is also a policy alarm bell. At this […]
You can buy THC drinks at grocery stores, convenience stores, and online, because they are marketed as “hemp-derived.” But testing the drink itself generally cannot tell us whether that claim is true, or whether it actually contains marijuana. That regulatory blind spot has helped intoxicating THC products move far beyond marijuana dispensaries and into ordinary […]
There is nothing socialist about believing that children benefit when a parent is able to stay home and raise them. In fact, encouraging parents to take primary responsibility for their children is one of the most traditionally conservative ideas imaginable. But paying parents to stay home with federal money is something else entirely. That is […]
I was sitting on the New York City subway reading my favorite commuter paper, amNewYork. If I recall correctly, it was somewhere in mid-2015 when I came across a striking headline: real estate mogul and reality TV icon Donald Trump was announcing his presidential candidacy, boldly promising to build a massive wall on the Mexican […]
The Trump administration has again sent envoys to Moscow to try to end Russia’s war of conquest against Ukraine. The objective is laudable, but the strategy fails to see Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the tyrant he is and is thus doomed to fail. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Moscow for meetings with […]
