When the chief executive of one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence companies says that his industry must slow down, we should listen. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently warned that AI capabilities are advancing faster than our ability to understand and control them⁠. His concern — and much of the public debate — centers […]

The recent 7th Circuit opinion permitting in-home possession of AI-generated child sexual abuse material raises many questions regarding the relationship between protected speech and generative AI. While most people would say CSAM of any child — real or virtual — should be illegal, the decision relies on precedent from the 2002 Ashcroft v. Free Speech […]

In traditional diplomacy, progress is usually slow. The Trump administration does not follow that old script. When President Donald Trump renewed his demand to acquire Greenland earlier this year, foreign policy experts panicked. Critics dismissed the idea immediately, calling it entirely unrealistic. Yet, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland are now preparing to sign a […]

Is West Bank settler violence the hill that Israel’s friends want to die on? I ask as a lifelong admirer of the Jewish state. I marvel at the achievement of maintaining an open society in a lawless region. I remember the warm glow I felt, two decades ago, when the IDF general who had laid […]

Conservatives in Congress have started to separate government-worker unions, such as Randi Weingarten’s American Federation of Teachers, from “private-sector” unions, such as Sean O’Brien’s Teamsters. They know Weingarten and her friends are irredeemably liberal in their social policy and destructively socialist in their economic policy, so they’re treated as adversaries. But since almost 60% of […]

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Americans are holding two seemingly contradictory ideas at once. Gallup reported in June that 78% of Americans still believe the American dream is worth striving for, and 69% believe they personally will achieve it. Yet an AP-NORC poll found that only 34% say the traditional proposition that […]

Russia’s war in Ukraine accomplished something no American strategy could have engineered on its own: It hollowed out Moscow’s grip on its former empire. The White House noticed and moved. Congress still has not. The Trump administration has moved at a remarkable pace. In August 2025, Washington displaced Moscow as broker of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, […]

When American Eagle released its “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans” campaign last year, I found the outrage ridiculous.  I like seeing a beautiful woman unapologetically presented as beautiful. I like even more that Sweeney refused to participate in the familiar ritual in which somebody commits an imaginary cultural offense and is then expected to crawl […]

Michigan's Tom Barrett is locked in a tight race in the Lansing-based seventh district against William Lawrence, founder of the Sunrise Movement.