As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he's digging into the country's political past to reference one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes.
KYIV, Ukraine — Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski sat for an interview with me at Poland’s Embassy in Kyiv this week. Sikorski had arrived in Ukraine as Russia was pushing the war closer to his country. Russia has intensified strikes on the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, increasingly targeting the railways, roads, and crossings […]
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth deserves praise for his agreement with German defense minister Boris Pistorius to bolster the production of key munitions. The deal will see Germany ramp up production of Patriot interceptor munitions, which have predictably been heavily depleted by the war in Iran and transfers to Ukraine. Germany may also produce more […]
From the end of World War II up to about the time President John F. Kennedy approved sending additional Special Forces troops to Vietnam, we created what came to be called the baby boom generation. Rebranding is in order here: I suggest calling the boomers the Meals on Wheels generation. Great that on average everybody […]
Let’s start with the obvious: Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept waiting to enter healthcare. It is already changing how diseases are detected, how medical information is analyzed, and how clinicians make decisions. The question before us, however, is no longer whether AI belongs in healthcare — It is whether we will deploy […]
In July, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services got the country’s largest health plans, provider groups, and medical societies to sign a national behavioral health pledge saying they would deliver timely, evidence-based, whole-person care that treats mental and physical health together, rather than in separate silos. Critically, it also calls for measurement and […]
Surveillance tech vendors had a pretty rough summer filled with negative media coverage, protests, and, as at least one line of T-shirts put it, attempts to “Cull the Flock.” Apparently, the proles don’t like it when police team up with Big Tech to keep notes on when they take their kids to school, visit a […]