Former special counsel Jack Smith's probe into President Trump and Republicans collected "communications" from members of the news media, including major networks and newspapers, the Senate's senior lawmaker revealed Tuesday.
In the span of a few months, advanced AI systems from three leading American laboratories crossed the boundaries of safety tests and affected real systems. Google’s Gemini accessed systems at three companies. An Anthropic model published malicious code that reached 15 outside systems. And as revealed last week, these are creating international incidents, with OpenAI’s […]
When Europe’s leaders gathered in Yerevan, Armenia, in May, the sharpest words about Europe’s view of the South Caucasus came from a leader who was not in the room. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, speaking by video link from Baku, used his allotted time at the European Political Community summit to rebuke the European Parliament for […]
According to a recent poll, almost half of people under 30 say they would vote for a socialist presidential candidate. Conservatives can respond by pointing to socialism’s dismal historical record. They would be right — and they would be missing the point. Conservatives should not assume young people are embracing socialism because they have been […]
Lawyers, like boxers, are forged through adversity, not affirmation. At West Point, I boxed on the women’s boxing team. I spent hours drilling footwork, shadowboxing, and stepping into the ring to spar. I learned I was a terrible boxer, but I loved the challenge of testing my body under pressure and learning, albeit painfully, from […]
In the name of making higher education more transparent, Congress is attempting to codify an unprecedented data-collection scheme. Instead of fixing our education system, it would be a disastrous, unnecessary breach of privacy. In an age of Flock cameras, digital assistants, and artificial intelligence embedded into every device and every app, people increasingly feel like […]
The most useful warning about military automation last week did not come from a drone swarm, a command center, or a classified exercise. It came from the freezer aisle of a base commissary. Beginning Aug. 26, military installations across the United States reported refrigeration failures. At Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the commissary said all its freezers […]
Bloomberg announced last week that it is ending the health benefit it provides employees. Beginning in 2027, employees are being asked to shoulder more of the cost of their health insurance without gaining ownership of the policy for which they’re paying. Bloomberg isn’t alone. Becker’s Payer Issues reports that 51% of employers are “likely or […]
On the presidential campaign trail in 1908, a man at the front of a crowd hurled a cabbage at Republican candidate William Howard Taft. He missed, despite the fact that Taft, who won the election, was a huge target, weighing around 300 pounds. The soon-to-be president coolly shot back: “I see that one of my […]
If you want the real cost of green energy mandates, skip the politicians and listen to the economist who served former President Barack Obama. Michael Greenstone, former chief economist of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and his University of Chicago team studied Renewable Portfolio Standards, the renewable mandates now covering most of the country. Using […]
The Trump administration’s sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court have triggered an outpouring of concern: European governments and human-rights organizations warn that the international justice institutions painstakingly constructed over three decades are being weakened. They’re right. But the problem is not Trump. International justice spent years eroding the credibility and legitimacy on which […]
Emily Bickford knows the answer to a question no judge should have the power to settle: which parent gets to be right about God. Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court told her on Tuesday, in a case called Bickford v. Bradeen, that on the subject of her daughter’s faith, she isn’t it. Her ex, Matthew Bradeen, now […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) built his brand on GSD: getting stuff done. But these days, he seems more interested in the exact opposite. Rather than building on the policies he has spent years touting, Shapiro is increasingly reversing course on them. Call it the Shapiro U-turn — and nowhere is that reversal clearer than on […]
President Donald Trump recently announced a monumental oil agreement with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, partnering with private energy operators to secure majority control over 17 key oil fields holding an estimated 65 billion barrels of proven reserves. This landmark pact follows the U.S. military capture of Nicolas Maduro during Operation Absolute Resolve earlier this […]
The lens of history can clarify the present. Emzari Gelashvili in a Washington Examiner op-ed compared New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-a-terre list to Stalin’s list of kulaks, which preceded Holodomor. The history of proscription lists is long, and the pattern is sharp: Proscription lists of targeted individuals historically have appeared when democracies were […]
