Asking NYC taxpayers to spend record sums on public education, only to have a third of students miss large chunks of the school year, is the ultimate indictment.
Democrats and liberal commentators in the past decade or two are likely to sound like fifth-grade teachers: “Let’s make sure everyone’s voice is heard and that we are inclusive and sensitive to diverse viewpoints and perspectives.” This sort of diversity, equity, and inclusion process talk sounds nice. If you are naive and don’t think about […]
The environmental movement used to focus on pollution and was built to confront real problems such as poisoned rivers, toxic air, and chemical runoff. Now, the same movement that once targeted pollutants in our water ignores one of the clearest sources: the abortion pill. This isn’t an oversight. It fits perfectly with the misanthropic worldview […]
It was a telling revelation from now-former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler when he shared a conversation he once had with publisher Will Lewis, in which Lewis asked the following: “What should the Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?” “[I felt he] was crossing a bit of a business-newsroom line where he […]
According to former FBI special agent Nicole Parker, there are two FBIs. FBI 1 is apolitical, professional, and focused on crime fighting. FBI 2 is woke, activist, and corrupt. In her forthcoming book The Two FBIs: The Bravery and Betrayal I Saw in My Time in the Bureau, Parker offers a list of the reasons […]
Tariffs are a terrible idea to begin with. Imposing a massive new tax regime on families is economically illiterate, morally lamentable, and politically insane, but assuming President Donald Trump and his team really are committed to their unfortunate tariff experiment long-term, the least they could do is not make matters worse. Many Republicans seem determined […]
This week, during a “Great American Farmers Market,” United States Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins signed waivers allowing six states — West Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas — to restrict the use of SNAP benefits for soda and candy. These join six others — Nebraska, Iowa, Indiana, Arkansas, Idaho, and Utah — that […]
Whatever you may think of President Donald Trump, you can’t deny he has a flair for theatrics. This skill has been on full display since Sunday evening when he announced he would “take federal control” of Washington, D.C., in response to the beating of one of his former staff members at the hands of youths. […]
Following the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan and a summer wave of new models — Grok 4, an updated Claude, and OpenAI’s open-source and agent variants — the AI community’s anticipation for the ChatGPT-5 livestream was unmistakable, if tinged with its usual overhype. After a series of models (GPT 4.5, reasoning o1 and o3) failed […]
