President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month to pause a ban on TikTok for 75 days. An outbreak of posts featuring reactions from tears over the app’s ban to joyful celebrations of its return filled social media. Arguments over the ban’s constitutionality will continue, but the 12-hour freeze of TikTok highlighted a significant problem: addiction. TikTok, which merged […]
Without question, the formation of the Abraham Accords was the greatest foreign policy achievement of Donald Trump’s first term as president. The major step toward Arab-Israeli normalization was a blow to the Iranian regime’s ambitions for regional hegemony, took pressure off American resources, and provides a glimpse of what a future of peace might look […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s efforts to remake the world in the image of a woke America are coming to a screeching halt. Elections have consequences, and the 2024 cycle may have been one of the most consequential in our history. This is why Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday that he is […]
In the early morning hours of Dec. 4, 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione walked along the sidewalk in front of the New York Hilton in Midtown Manhattan, raised his pistol, and shot 50-year-old Brian Thompson dead. The brazen killing, caught on CCTV, sent shock waves around the country. A father of two was killed by what […]
President Donald Trump’s return to the White House set off a slew of “hand-wringing” about the future of the global order. While commentators theorized that Trump, along with other quasi-populists such as Argentina’s Javier Milei and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, was a rejection of the so-called elite, they also proclaimed it another nail in the coffin […]
Akash Bobba’s Hindu parents came to New Jersey from India after his father, Jay, secured an H-1B visa. Akash wrote artificial intelligence models for Meta when he was 19 years old and interned with Palantir at 20. Luke Farritor was a senior at the University of Nebraska when he designed an AI program that made […]
Over at the group therapy session that is Slate magazine’s advice column, the latest liberal to lament their financial woes whines that after finally becoming a first-time homebuyer, “the absolute worst-case scenario happened.” Did Hurricane Helene wash the home away? Did the Palisades Fire burn it to the ground? Did a career criminal repeatedly released […]
In a marvelous phrase, Erich Heller credited Franz Kafka with having achieved “the most obscure lucidity in the history of literature.” Heller’s witty oxymoron could be applied with equal justice to the French writer Patrick Modiano, the author of roughly two dozen novels and novellas and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. When […]
Democrats are grappling with how to take on Elon Musk and his unprecedented efforts to remake the federal government, with some favoring direct attacks on the tech mogul and others wondering if they should aim more at President Trump. Democrats have struggled to find their footing in the second Trump presidency, even as Trump has...
Republican senators say they want to convince President Trump to support their plan to take the lead on a budget reconciliation package when they meet with him at Mar-a-Lago on Friday. Republican senators say getting Trump to pick a side in the standoff between Senate and House Republicans over which chamber should move first on...