Senate Democrats are increasingly turning against Israel, following the direction laid out by President Joe Biden surrendering his administration to the whims of antisemitic activists. Various Democratic senators are now effectively against Israel, either because that was their inclination anyway or because they are searching for any angle to defend Biden choosing to treat Hamas […]
Industrial policy is doomed to fail for the same reason as the planned economy. This is one of the theses explored in the book by esteemed Chinese economist Zhang Weiying, a professor at Peking University. Zhang is widely recognized as China’s leading advocate of free-market principles and played a significant role in shaping Chinese ruler […]
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s criminal case against Donald Trump is technically about whether the former president illegally falsified business records, but you wouldn’t know it based on much of the media coverage of the trial. And although Bragg has failed to identify who Trump supposedly defrauded when he recorded payments to former fixer-turned-foe Michael […]
On Friday, the United Nations General Assembly voted on a disgraceful resolution granting new rights and privileges to the so-called “observer state” of Palestine, while also calling for the Security Council to admit the “State of Palestine” as a full U.N. member.
Each year, U.S. News and World Report releases a report ranking each state on several factors. In the most recent report, Colorado made a top 10 list -- for most dangerous states.
Two lawmakers are pushing back against online liability protections for Big Tech companies, saying the law has "outlived its usefulness." Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) co-authored an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday to rail against Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The pair of lawmakers...
Something about the tragic fall of academic presidents feels like the logical conclusion to a certain approach to leadership that, against everything we know about psychology, has managed to businessify it into a profitable enterprise with an academic imprimatur.
OpenAI revealed its latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, GPT-4o, during a live demonstration Monday. GPT-4o provides “GPT-4 level intelligence,” but is faster and improved on the system's capabilities across, text, vision and audio, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati said. Murati said the updated model is a “huge step forward with the ease...
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is launching a $19 million ad blitz while his Republican rival Kari Lake is planning a $10 million ad buy with the Senate GOP campaign arm, the latest signs that the Arizona Senate race is in full swing. Gallego and Lake, who is seen as the heavy favorite in the GOP...