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That ‘90s Show is humanity’s return serve to AI

The show is not only unenjoyable but a fundamentally disorienting hall of Barthesian mirrors.

Biden must let Senate do its job on classified documents

Bipartisanship is rare in Washington, but President Joe Biden’s national intelligence director, Avril Haines, managed to unite Senate Democrats and Republicans this week after she declined to show the Senate Intelligence Committee copies of classified documents discovered at the properties of past and present Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

Proposed airline merger would bring more competition and lower fares

If you want to see a classic case of how President Joe Biden’s regulatory tendencies are strangling the U.S. economy and raising prices, look no further than the latest Justice Department efforts to kill an airline merger that is pro-consumer.

Second chances in the Holy Land

It was a pretty simple question: “So what brings you to Jerusalem, my friend?”

The eternal reexamination of Vietnam

The story of South Vietnam’s political and even military development deserved much more than an occasional passing mention.

Lloyd Morrisett, 1929-2023

There are generations of children for whom our first memories are a composite of Mom and Dad, Bert and Ernie, Grandma and Grandpa, and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. To the many for whom Sesame Street was as much a fabric of our infancies as were highchairs and strollers, last week’s death of Lloyd Morrisett, one of the two founders of the children’s television production company that gave birth to one of the most widely watched and longest-running shows in television history, hits close to home.

Pink gin

The wildly innovative musician Frank Zappa had some weird notions about drinking — not that it should come as a surprise that Zappa had some weird notions about any particular thing.

McCarthy: ‘We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security’

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said on Thursday that House Republicans will not target Medicare or Social Security in their negotiations over the debt ceiling. “We won’t touch Medicare or Social Security,” he told Donald Trump Jr. in an interview in the Speaker’s office for Trump's "Triggered" podcast. The remark comes as some House Republicans have...

Disability, civil rights groups file lawsuit challenging Newsom’s CARE Courts program

Several disability and civil rights advocacy groups in California filed a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom's (D) new court program targeting mental health concerns that he signed into law last year. Disability Rights California, Western Center on Law & Poverty and The Public Interest Law Project filed a petition with the California Supreme Court Thursday,...

Goldman Sachs says 4 cities likely to see a 2008-style housing crash: report

Goldman Sachs is predicting dark days in 2023 for some of the pandemic's red-hot U.S. housing markets.

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