It was the perfect magic trick. In late June 2022, congressional interns ran down the steps of the Supreme Court carrying a decision that was supposed to give Republicans exactly what they wanted. The overturning of Roe v. Wade was meant to be a grand slam for conservatives — the pinnacle of our stacked Supreme […]
On the eve of Tisha B’Av, the Jewish calendar’s annual day of mourning commemorating the destruction of the First and Second Temples and other historic tragedies, Hillel International found itself at the center of a controversy that raises difficult questions about Jewish leadership, institutional accountability, and who speaks for Jewish students at a time of […]
Less than a year ago, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) CEO Stephen Ubl stated PhRMA would be “answering Trump’s call” to put America first in the healthcare ecosystem. However, as President Donald Trump continues to deliver lower prices on medications, PhRMA has not only avoided the call but undermined Trump’s efforts to deliver […]
For most of the artificial intelligence revolution, the global race has revolved around a small group of American companies. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have swapped places at the top, with each new model briefly claiming the title of the world’s most advanced AI system. Chinese firms occasionally disrupted that narrative, producing powerful models at lower […]
Another pause has arrived in the conflict between the United States and Iran. American military strikes have stopped for now. Iran has also refrained from further retaliatory attacks. Diplomacy has been given additional room, and mediators are again trying to turn a temporary halt in violence into something more durable. That is welcome. But it […]
The wife of Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy was shot Sunday at their home in the Northern Virginia suburb of Ashburn, police said. The shooting, which was first reported by ESPN, occurred on the 20000 block of Northpark Drive, where police said they were called just after 7:30 p.m. ESPN reported that Mia...
Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci was keenly aware of the media's interest in him early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, and considered some of the attention "flattering," according to diary entries released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). Over the weekend, Paul published more than a thousand pages of Fauci's diary entries as...
Analyst Nate Silver said Sunday that Americans may be “moving on” from President Trump amid rocky political territory for the president and his party. “It's kind of striking how, apart from Iran, most of the Trump-related stories this summer have been boring and dumb (reflection pool, White House Correspondents' Dinner) or kind of funny (FIFA),...
Nvidia is launching a new alliance focused on building and sharing open-source AI tools to boost cybersecurity defenses, as the push for open-source technologies ramps up in the U.S. Nvidia announced Monday that the Open Secure AI Alliance will use open-source tools to identify, patch and disclose security vulnerabilities across infrastructure. Open models, according to...