For casual observers of U.S. politics, an interview President Donald Trump gave last Wednesday to "NBC Nightly News" might have suggested a change of tone in the federal government's standoff in Minnesota. Speaking of the brute-force operations federal agents have conducted there rounding up ...
Troubling stories about dangerous encounters with chatbots continue to surface in the news, with two recent reports from NPR that focused on teen suicide and mental health worsening due to people seeking "sentient" relationships with artificial intelligence. The teen suicide story ran last ...
For five years, President Donald Trump has peddled the false, justly ridiculed claim that the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden was stolen from him. It is a false claim made even more notable, if possible, by the federal indictment issued by a grand jury finding probable ...
Virginia is the new Illinois. The practice of drawing partisan districts is named after Elbridge Gerry, the 19th century Massachusetts governor. Even he might blush at the extreme gerrymander that Democrats in the commonwealth are pushing. They want to go from a congressional delegation ...
"Where is the good news?" my son asked the other day, the kind of simple question that can only come from a child. Obvious, sensical, trusting. He still believes in our essential goodness and still wants to know about humanity's small kindnesses and large achievements. We had been talking ...
Speaking at The New York Times, their actually conservative columnist Ross Douthat said, "I want to tell you a secret. One that most conservatives on the internet don't want you to know. A year into his second presidency, Donald Trump has lost the country." You might not want to hear this, but ...
