The debates over e-readers and physical books, or whether audiobooks count as reading, pale in comparison to the real problem at hand: where have all the readers gone? And what do we risk losing if we let reading go the path of needlepoint?  In the Atlantic, Rose Horowitch offers a thoughtful description of college students’ […]

Democratic strategist James Carville is a modern-day Cassandra, an all-seeing prophet doomed to be ignored by everyone, including sometimes even himself. Vice President Kamala Harris was defeated last week in the 2024 election, losing all seven swing states, the Electoral College, and likely the popular vote to President-elect Donald Trump.  Adding insult to injury, the […]

Ukraine attacked Moscow with 34 drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense said early Sunday morning. “Between 7:00 and 10:00 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type [unmanned aerial vehicle] against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted,” the Russian Ministry of Defense...

The cast of “Saturday Night Live” jokingly appealed to President-elect Donald Trump in a cold open sketch in their first episode since the 2024 presidential election. “On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States,” cast member Bowen Yang said in the opening of...

Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our world dirtier and more dangerous.

Former New York Gov. David Patterson (D) said the Democratic party needs to do a better job “listening” to voters during a Saturday appearance on John Catsimatidis’s radio show, “Cats Roundtable” on WABC 770 AM. “We’ve got to kind of tear up all the information that we have now and start going out and start...